These Nissan GTR car cupcakes were part of a larger order by a dear customer of mine. The full order was for a Nissan GTR themed cake decorated in butter icing and along with it, a set of cupcakes decorated with edible images of Nissan GTR logo and related images.
🧾Supplies required
- Cupcakes – The order was for 6 Nissan GTR car cupcakes and I baked them in white muffin casings. I used my butter pound cake recipe for the cupcakes.
- Buttercream – I used buttercream to crumb coat the cupcakes before decorating them with fondant.
- Fondant – I used white and black Satin Ice fondant.
- Medium plain round cutter and small scalloped round cutter
- Nissan GTR car logos in edible image – The logos were downloaded from the internet and I had them printed onto an edible image sheet by a local edible image supply shop.
- Cake decorating brush – I used the brush to lightly dampen the back of my Nissan GTR car logo edible images cutouts so that they stick onto the fondant.
👩🍳How to Make
Step 1: Prepare the edible images
Make or order the edibles images of the car to be cut into circles are almost half the size of the diameter of the cupcakes casings.
If you are ordering them, place your order in advance so that you can have them delivered to you on time.
Step2: Bake the cupcakes and cover with buttercream
Bake the cupcakes and let them cool completely.
Level the tops and apply a thin layer of buttercream. The buttercream acts as ‘glue’ to hold the fondant cut outs placed on the cupcakes.
Step 3: Cover the cupcakes with fondant
Next was the fondant covering. Roll and cut black and white fondant into circles (with a plain round cutter) in equal numbers.
Attach the black cut outs on half of the cupcakes and the white cut outs on the remaining half.
Step 4: Decorate the cupcakes
Next, use a scalloped round cutter (should be almost half the size of the plain round cutter used for the background earlier) and cut out equal numbers of black and white cut out.
Dampen the back of the cut outs with a damp brush and attach them to the fondant covered cupcakes. In doing this, attach the white ones to the black cupcakes and the black ones to the white cupcakes.
Next, attach the edible images. To attach the edible image car logos, brush the back of the images with a damp brush. Turn over and attach them to the cupcakes.
And that completes the car cupcakes.
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