It’s not everyday you can go to the circus but you can bring the circus to you. I love how these circus ticket cupcakes turned out. Made with box cake mix, frosting and fondant make this the perfect treat for a birthday and classroom parties, movie nights or just when you want to throw a circus party.
Circus Ticket Cupcakes
Yields: One dozen decorated cupcakes
Ingredients
1 box white cake mix (plus required eggs, oil, and water as directed on box)
3-4 oz. white fondant
2-3 oz. red fondant
1 black edible ink marker
1 stick butter, softened
2 cups icing/confectioners’ sugar
2-3 tbsp milk
Sprinkles
Directions for Cupcake Decorating
Bake cupcakes according to box directions. Allow to cool.
In a large bowl, beat together butter, sugar and milk with an electric mixer.
Gradually increase the electric mixer to high and once all ingredients are well combined, scoop buttercream into a piping bag with Wilton tip #12 attached.
Frost each cupcake and then garnish with sprinkles.
Directions for Fondant Circus Ticket
As the cupcakes cool down (they need to be completely cool before adding any sort of decorations/icing), make the fondant circus tickets: use a rolling pin to roll out white fondant until it’s about 1/3 of an inch thick.
Use a paring knife to cut the white fondant in 12 rectangles, 1 inch x 2 inches in size.
Roll out the red fondant until it’s about ¼ of an inch thick. Cut out 24 strips, about 3 inches (or more) in length and ¼ of an inch wide.
On the top and bottom of each white fondant rectangle, press a red fondant strip. Trim where necessary.
Use edible black marker to write out the word “TICKET.”
Using the end of Wilton icing tip #12, trim out a demi-circle from the corner of each fondant ticket.
Place one fondant ticket on each cupcake. Serve and enjoy!
How to Make Circus Ticket Cupcakes
Recipe
Circus Ticket Cupcakes
Ingredients
- 1 box white cake mix plus required eggs, oil, and water as directed on box
- 3-4 oz. white fondant
- 2-3 oz. red fondant
- 1 black edible ink marker
- 1 stick butter softened
- 2 cups icing/confectioners’ sugar
- 2-3 tbsp milk
- Sprinkles
Instructions
Directions for Cupcake Decorating
- Bake cupcakes according to box directions. Allow to cool.
- In a large bowl, beat together butter, sugar and milk with an electric mixer.
- Gradually increase the electric mixer to high and once all ingredients are well combined, scoop buttercream into a piping bag with Wilton tip #12 attached.
- Frost each cupcake and then garnish with sprinkles.
Directions for Fondant Circus Ticket
- As the cupcakes cool down (they need to be completely cool before adding any sort of decorations/icing), make the fondant circus tickets: use a rolling pin to roll out white fondant until it’s about 1/3 of an inch thick.
- Use a paring knife to cut the white fondant in 12 rectangles, 1 inch x 2 inches in size.
- Roll out the red fondant until it’s about ¼ of an inch thick. Cut out 24 strips, about 3 inches (or more) in length and ¼ of an inch wide.
- On the top and bottom of each white fondant rectangle, press a red fondant strip. Trim where necessary.
- Use edible black marker to write out the word “TICKET.”
- Using the end of Wilton icing tip #12, trim out a demi-circle from the corner of each fondant ticket.
- Place one fondant ticket on each cupcake. Serve and enjoy!
Nutrition Disclosure
Nutritional facts are estimates and are provided as a courtesy to the reader. Please utilize your own brand nutritional values to double check against our estimates. Nutritional values are calculated via a third party. Changing ingredients, amounts or cooking technique will alter the estimated nutritional calculations.
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