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1. PHOTO:HAMINLEESTYLING:SHEAHURLEYFORPLUTINOGROUPHAIRANDMAKEUP:SOPHIEHSINFORTRESEMMÉHAIRCARE/MACCOSMETICS/PLUTINOGROUPPROPDESIGN:CAITLINDOHERTY ASSISTANTPROPSTYLING:RAYNASCHWARTZ.ONRUHAAN,5:BLAZER,$30,ANDSHORTS,$13,HM.COM/CA;SHIRTWITHBOWTIE,$20,OLDNAVY.CA;BOOTS,$328,ADVICEFROMACATERPILLAR.CA happy birthday to us! WE’RE30YEARSOLDTHISMONTH(BUTWEDON’TLOOK ADAYOVER29)ANDWE’RECELEBRATINGALLMONTHLONG. CHECKOUTTHECUTESTCUPCAKESYOU’VEEVERSEEN, PLUSOURLOOKBACKATHOWPARENTINGHASCHANGED SINCEWEPUBLISHEDOURFIRSTISSUEIN1984. THIS WAY TO THE CUPCAKES JUNE 2014 todaysparent.com 61 features

2. NO. 07 CLEAR SAILING DIFFICULTY: INTERMEDIATE Using a large star tip, pipe a blue icing swirl on cupcake, then sprinkle with blue-coloured sugar. Use a toothpick to poke a hole in the thin edge of a lemon wedge candy, and insert a 2-in.-thin biscuit stick. Roll a piece of white taffy candy flat between parchment paper, and cut into a triangle sail. Using food colouring pens, draw lines on sail and use a dab of icing to affix to biscuit stick. Place boat on cupcake. NO. 08 BROWN BEAR DIFFICULTY: INTERMEDIATE Fit a piping bag with a small star tip and fill with chocolate icing. Working from the outside in, pipe little stars all over top of cupcake. Stick two brown M&Ms on top edge of cupcake for ears. Use a dab of icing to attach a pink heart sprinkle to the top of a white-chocolate button candy. Using a black food colouring pen, draw a mouth under the heart. Place white button candy on cupcake. Cut a black licorice pellet in half. Place above white button for eyes. NO. 06 HOCKEY NIGHT DIFFICULTY: INTERMEDIATE Warm up a Tootsie Roll for 5 to 7 seconds in the microwave and roll into a thin log. Bend the end of roll to make a hockey stick shape. Flatten stick slightly. Roll a piece of white taffy candy flat between two pieces of parchment. Cut into thin strips. Wrap strips around top and bottom of hockey stick handle. Cover cupcake with white glaze icing. Place hockey stick and black licorice gummy “puck” on top of cupcake. NO. 05 OVER THE RAINBOW DIFFICULTY: INTERMEDIATE Cover cupcake with blue glaze icing. Cut a piece of rainbow ribbon candy. Curve candy into an arch and place on cupcake. Using a small round tip, pipe white icing clouds around rainbow. Dip a finger into water and gently press down peaks of cloud icing. NO. 04 POLKA TIME DIFFICULTY: EASY Cover cupcake with white glaze icing. Press an assortment of coloured M&Ms lightly into glaze. NO. 10 DIP DYE DIFFICULTY: ADVANCED Divide white cake batter into two portions. Colour one portion with red gel food colouring. Scoop red batter into cupcake liners, then carefully top with white batter. Bake as per recipe directions. Using a large round tip, pipe a white icing swirl on top of cupcake. Dip icing peak halfway into red glaze icing, letting excess drip off. Set on a rack until glaze firms. NO. 09 ICE CREAM SUNDAE DIFFICULTY: INTERMEDIATE Fill a small piping bag with white icing. Fill another piping bag with pink icing. Cut off tips from piping bags and place both piping bags, side by side, into a larger piping bag fitted with a large star tip. Pipe a swirl on top of cupcake. Add coloured sprinkles and top with a maraschino cherry. WE’VEWHIPPEDUPAMONTH’SWORTHOF DECORATINGIDEASFOROUR30THBIRTHDAY,BECAUSE WETHINKEVERYDAYCALLSFORADORABLEDESSERTS! CupcakedesignandstylingbyIRENENGOPhotographybyERIKPUTZChalkdrawingsbyERINMCPHEE NO. 01 MONSTER MASH DIFFICULTY: EASY Cover cupcake with red glaze icing, then dip into red-coloured sugar to coat. Cut two short pieces of black licorice lace, then attach pea–sized balls of red taffy candy to one end of each. Stick the other ends into top of cupcake. Attach a brown mini M&M onto a white Necco wafer with a dab of icing. Place in centre of cupcake. Use a small piece of black licorice lace for the mouth. NO. 03 PRETTY PRINCESS DIFFICULTY: ADVANCED Roll flat one or two pieces of pink taffy candy between two pieces of parchment. Cut into a 1x4-in. rectangle. Cut a zigzag along one edge with scissors. Wrap around to form a crown. Use a dab of icing to attach heart–shaped sprinkles. Using a large star tip, pipe a pink icing swirl on cupcake. Top with crown, then sprinkle with pink sugar pearls and silver dragées. 30AWESOMECUPCAKES NO. 02 GARDEN PARTY DIFFICULTY: EASY Ice cupcake with chocolate icing, then sprinkle with chocolate-cookie crumbs. Insert a sprig of fresh mint into centre of cupcake. 63

3. NO. 17 CIRCUS CIRCUS DIFFICULTY: ADVANCED Cover cupcake with white glaze icing. Place a red M&M in centre of cupcake. Cut a piece of red fruit leather into a smiling mouth shape. Place under nose. Stick a piece of black licorice lace on mouth. Arrange small pieces licorice lace into X-shaped eyes. Cut a mini ice cream cone in half lengthwise and place at top edge of cupcake. Press cotton candy “hair” into icing on either side of cone and on tip of hat. NO. 18 GO FISH DIFFICULTY: ADVANCED Brush one side of a goldfish cracker with corn syrup, and coat with orange-coloured sugar. Pipe two thin lines of white glaze icing on goldfish and add a black gel icing dot for the eye. Pipe a thin border of chocolate icing around edge of cupcake. Dip edges into chocolate-cookie crumbs. Fill centre with blue sparkle gel icing. Stick green sprinkles around blue “pond.” Press the tail of goldfish into pond. NO. 22 RAINBOW LOOM DIFFICULTY: ADVANCED Ice cupcakes with white icing. Follow the tutorial to create a flower with a toothpick mini-loom and red and yellow licorice laces. Remove flower from loom and place on top of cupcake. NO. 19 COOL CAT DIFFICULTY: INTERMEDIATE Cover cupcake with orange glaze icing. Cut an orange Warhead candy in half, and then diagonally to make triangles. Place at top edge of cupcake for ears. Draw eyes on two yellow mini M&Ms with a black food colouring pen. Arrange on top half of cupcake. Pipe two white icing rounds on centre of cupcake. Poke three licorice string whiskers into each side and add a heart-shaped spinkle for a nose. NO. 20 RAD ROBOT DIFFICULTY: ADVANCED Cover cupcake with white glaze icing. Roll blue fondant to ½-in. thick and cut into two small cubes. Using little dabs of icing, decorate the head with a licorice pellet antenna, confetti eyes, candy button ears and a licorice lace mouth. Decorate the body with licorice pellet arms and legs, mini M&M feet, silver dragées and Warhead body parts. Attach head to body using a piece of taffy candy. NO. 21 TIE-DYE DIFFICULTY: EASY Fit a piping bag with a large star tip. Rest empty piping bag, tip down, in a tall glass. Fold the top edges of the bag halfway down around outside of glass. Paint thick lines of red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple gel food colouring from the tip to the top of the bag. Fill with white icing. Pipe a swirl on cupcake. NO. 12 LADYBUG PICNIC DIFFICULTY: EASY Fit a piping bag with a small grass tip and fill with green icing. Pipe grass all over top of cupcake. Using a black food colouring pen, draw a line down the middle of a red M&M. Colour one end with pen for ladybug’s head. Draw symmetrical dots on either side of lines. Place ladybugs on cupcake. NO. 14 MOVIE NIGHT DIFFICULTY: EASY Ice cupcake with white icing. Wrap a red-and-white striped cupcake liner around cupcake. Top with caramel popcorn. NO. 16 MINECRAFTTM DIFFICULTY: ADVANCED Cut a crispy rice treat into a square. Roll out white fondant to ⅛-in. thick and cut into a square just larger than the rice treat. Cut a rampart pattern from each edge. Drape fondant over treat. Cut small squares from red fruit leather and lightly press onto top of fondant. Ice cupcake with green icing and top with crispy rice treat. NO. 15 THE NINJA DIFFICULTY: EASY Ice cupakes with white icing. Roll out a piece of cream-coloured taffy candy between parchment and place on cupcake. Roll out black fondant to ⅛-in. thick. Cut a 1x3-in. piece for the hood and place on top of cupcake. Cut a 3x3-in. piece for the mask. Leaving space for the eyes, drape mask fondant over bottom half of cupcake, creating folds of fondant. Trim off excess from cupcake edges. Draw eyes using a black food colouring pen. NO. 11 FLOWER POWER DIFFICULTY: EASY Cut mini marshmallows in half on the diagonal. Dip the cut side of each marshmallow into purple- coloured sugar. Ice cupcakes with white icing. Press three purple licorice pellets into centre of cupcake. Working from the inside out, carefully place marshmallow petals around licorice, with pointed edges facing out. TABLET EXTRA Find out how to make this licorice-lace flower. NO. 13 MAKING TRACKS DIFFICULTY: ADVANCED Cover cupcake with white glaze icing. Lay black licorice lace “tracks.” Fit a piping bag with a small grass tip, fill with green icing and pipe grass on outside of tracks. Cut a vanilla wafer cookie to be 2-in. long. Place a chocolate wafer roll on top, using a dab of icing to secure. Cut another wafer cookie into a 1-in. square and stack on top of wafer roll. Stick a yellow mini M&M to the front of wafer roll. Place train on tracks and add round black licorice gummies for wheels. Cut a chocolate-covered biscuit stick to be ¾-in. long, top with a small licorice gummy and attach to top of wafer roll. 64

4. NO. 29 SNOW CONE DIFFICULTY: EASY Mound cupcake with white icing, then smooth into a rounded shape with a palette knife. Dip gently into orange-coloured sugar to coat. Cut a striped straw to 3-in. length and stick into icing. NO. 30 ELE-FUN DIFFICULTY: INTERMEDIATE Roll out licorice chew or grey fondant to ⅛-in. thick. Using an elephant cookie cutter, cut out shape. Cut ear with a teardrop-shaped cookie cutter. Attach ear to elephant with a dab of icing. Pipe a black gel eye. Fit a piping bag with a small grass tip and fill with green icing. Pipe grass all over top of cupcake. Top with elephant. NO. 28 STAR WARSTM DIFFICULTY: INTERMEDIATE Cover cupcake with chocolate icing, then dip into black-coloured sugar to coat. Roll out licorice chew or grey fondant to ⅛-in. thick. Cut into a 1-in. square and wrap around one end of a thin biscuit stick. Wrap the “lightsaber” end of stick with fruit leather. Trim edges and place on top of cupcake. NO. 24 BEACH PARTY DIFFICULTY: ADVANCED Ice cupcake with white icing, then dip into brown sugar or graham-cracker crumbs to coat. Mould pieces of crispy rice treats into one square and four turrets. Coat with brown sugar or graham crumbs. Wrap a piece of crispy rice treat around the middle of a pretzel stick. Poke pretzel into square, then into centre of cupcake. Press turrets into icing on each corner. Cut red fruit leather into a flag. Use a dab of icing to attach to top of pretzel stick. Sprinkle chopped chocolate rocks around edges. NO. 25 OUR HERO DIFFICULTY: ADVANCED Pipe a blue icing swirl on cupcake with a large star tip. Roll out red and yellow fondant to ⅛-in. thick. Cut out one 2½-in. red circle and one 2-in. yellow circle. Using a small round cutter, cut a wave pattern from edges of circles. Use a dab of icing to affix yellow fondant on top of red fondant. Using a red food colouring pen, draw dots all over yellow fondant. Cut the letters P, O and W from red fondant and colour edges with black food colouring pen. Place letters on yellow fondant, using icing to secure, then place disc on top of cupcake. PRINCESS - RUBBER DUCKS BATH BRUSH SHOWER CAP + WHITE BALLOONS ++ NO. 26 TINY DINO DIFFICULTY: ADVANCED Roll out orange taffy candy or fondant into a 2-in.-long rope. Pinch one end into a tail. Round the other end into a head. Roll out yellow taffy candy or fondant to ¼-in. thick. Cut a thin strip, then cut a wave or spiky pattern along edge of strip. Press gently to affix to top of dinosaur body. Ice cupcakes with chocolate icing, then sprinkle with chocolate-cookie crumbs. Top with dinosaur and chocolate rocks. NO. 27 BUILDING BLOCKS DIFFICULTY: EASY Cover cupcake with white glaze icing. Stack blocks of Warhead candy into a pyramid using dabs of icing to secure in place. NO. 23 LEGOTM DIFFICULTY: INTERMEDIATE Cover cupcake with green glaze icing. Stick nine green mini M&Ms on cupcake, forming a square. Warm yellow taffy for 5 to 7 seconds in the microwave. Roll taffy into a ball, then flatten ends to create a cylinder. Attach two pea-sized pieces of flattened yellow taffy on top and bottom of cylinder. Using a black food colouring pen, draw eyes and mouth on head. Place in centre of cupcake. GLOSSARY Find these supplies at a bulk food or grocery store. For classic cupcake and icing recipes, go to todaysparent.com/ cupcakerecipes .COM GLOSSARYPHOTOS:TONYLANZANDERIKPUTZ 66 CITRUS WEDGE CANDY CHOCOLATE ROCKS CHOCOLATE TOOTSIE ROLLS COLOURED LICORICE LACES COLOURED TOOTSIEROLLS LARGE LICORICE GUMMIES LICORICE CHEWS LICORICE PELLETS M&MS MINI M&MS NECCO WAFERS RAINBOW RIBBON CANDY RED FRUIT LEATHER SMALL LICORICE GUMMIES STRIPED FRUIT LEATHER WARHEADS WHITE- CHOCOLATE BUTTONS BLACK- COLOURED SUGAR BLUE- COLOURED SUGAR CANDY BUTTONS CHOCOLATE- COOKIE CRUMBS HEART SPRINKLES LARGE CONFETTI SPRINKLES ORANGE- COLOURED SUGAR PINK SUGAR PEARLS PURPLE- COLOURED SUGAR RED- COLOURED SUGAR SILVER DRAGÉES CARAMEL POPCORN CHOCOLATE BISCUIT STICK PRETZEL STICKS VANILLA WAFER COOKIE GRAHAM CRUMBS MINI ICE CREAM CONE PLAIN BISCUIT STICKS SMALL CONFETTI SPRINKLES GOLDFISH CRACKERS CHOCOLATE WAFER ROLL CRISPY RICE TREAT RED & WHITE TAFFY BLACK & WHITE FONDANT BLACK GEL ICING BLUE SPARKLE GEL COLOURED FONDANT COTTON CANDY CUPCAKE LINER GEL FOOD COLOURING FOOD COLOURING PENS MINI MARSHMALLOWS ACCESSORIES CANDY MISCELLANEOUS SPRINKLES

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