This Little Piggy

I was asked to make some cupcakes for a little girl's first birthday. When I first talked to her dad over the phone the connection was a little fuzzy and I heard "cupcakes with pigs". I was sure I heard wrong! It would have never occurred to me to put pigs on cupcakes. I thought maybe he said pink. Turns out I heard right the first time and they did want piggies on cupcakes! After I googled some images I discovered some very cute piggy cupcakes!

I came up with a version that worked for me and using an assortment of cookie cutters made 45 cute piggy faces out of fondant. The bow added the perfect girly touch.



I iced the cupcakes with chocolate icing to make it look like the piggies were in mud.







And placed them in my cupcake boxes, that I got from the IT Department at work (I think they probably held computer monitors at one time!), with my trusty non-slip shelf liner to keep them from sliding around.



When all was said and done I was very happy with how they turned out. Really a cute idea for a little girl's birthday.

It will be exciting when my little gal turns one! I have so many cake ideas for her I'm going to have a hard time picking one!