Items Needed

• Filled cupcakes, frosted with vanilla buttercream
• light and dark orange modeling chocolate or fondant
• rolled modeling chocolate equipment
• googly chocolate eyeballs
• 1” round cutter
• Yellow-colored buttercream
• paper cone or piping bag
• petal piping tip (#102 Wilton petal tip used here)

Google Chocolate Eyeballs Instructions

Step-by-Step Instructions

1. Roll out the light and dark orange modeling chocolate to 1/16″ thickness using a plastic rolling pin or pasta machine.

2. Using a craft utility knife, cut and the duck heads out of the light orange modeling chocolate.

3. With a 1” diameter round cutter, cut circles out of the dark orange modeling chocolate.

4. Gently pinch the circle with 3 fingers to form a ‘beak.’

5. Assemble the heads, place them on top of the cupcakes

6. Add the tuft of a crown by piping a squiggle of yellow buttercream through a petal tip.

I use these recipes
Smooth Buttercream Cake Frosting

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