Hat Cupcake Toppers

Give your cupcakes a girly twist with these hat cupcake toppers. Whether you are 5 or 50, these are bound to make your smile. Made with fondant and a little bit of love these cupcake toppers are fun to make.

I recently made these for a little girl. And, while cupcakes were gone in a flash, the girls held on to their little hats for a long, long time. Too pretty to eat, these are definitely a great way to add a little more to your cupcakes.

In fact, if you make them all-white these would also make amazing wedding cake favors.

About these cupcakes

• For my cupcakes, I made three variety - one bowl vanilla, one-bowl chocolate, and chocolate cupcakes
• For my frosting, I used vanilla buttercream frosting and chocolate buttercream frosting.
• I made marshmallow fondant and used some of my leftover homemade fondant as well.

Things you will need

• Fondant Rolling Pin
• Basketweave rolling pin or impression mat
• Sugar paste / Fondant – various colors
• Dusting pouch
• 3 ½ inch Round fluted cutter
• 2 ½ inch Round Fluted cutter
• ½ tsp. & 1 tbsp. measuring spoon
• Mini flower cutters – Daisy or Blossoms
• No 3 piping tip

Prepare cupcake base

• Roll out your sugar paste and cut the base circles for your cupcake toppers.
• Cut out the number of circles needed for your cupcakes.
• Here I am showing black but you do many different colors.
• You can use a 3 or 3 ½ inch fluted or plain cutter.

 Prepare the hat domes

• Take a ½ tsp measuring spoon – apply some veg shortening to the inside.
• Then, roll a ball of sugar paste, which can be the color of your hat or the color of your base disc.
• Next, fill the spoon with the sugar paste. Smooth so you have a flat surface on the top.
• Invert on to your work surface. The shortening should help pop the dome right now.
• Cupcake bases and domes ready.

1. The orange straw hat

• Roll orange sugar paste. Use the basketweave texture rolling pin or mat to make the impression.
• Use the 2 ½ round fluted or plain cutter to cut a circle.
• Dampen the hat dome.
• Place the hat circle on the dome. Ensure you center it.
• Use a 1 tbsp measuring spoon to cup the dome lightly.
• This helps to form the dome without taking away the impression.
• Use the back of your paintbrush or cell pin to create some waves around the edges giving your hat the natural bounce.
• Then, cut strips of orange and form a band as shown. Cut excess and use it to make a bow.
• To make the feather, roll a teardrop, flatten and make cuts as shown. Place on the hat above the bow.
• To make a mini rose – just flatten a strip of sugar paste and roll it onto itself.
• Then, put the pieces in place and place the hat on its base. Your first hat is ready. 

  2. Green flower hat

• Roll some green and some red sugar paste.
• Using the mini blossom cutter, cut out some red fondant blossoms.
• Place the blossom on the green fondant.
• Roll the blossom such that they blend with the sugar green.
• Texture with a rolling pin or mat. Cut out the hat circle.
• Next, dampen the hat dome. Place the hat fondant circle on top.
• Center it.
• Then, place the spoon over and gently cup.
• Use the back of your paintbrush, cell pin to create waves on the brim.
• Roll a sausage of white sugar paste to make the band. Cut off the excess white band.
• Attach white daisy or blossom with the medium flower cutter.
• Attach a black daisy in the center of the large daisy.
• Add a silver degree.
• Place on the black cupcake base.

3. Rose pink spring hat

• Roll Pink sugar paste. Texture as desired.
• Cut out hat circle. Dampen hat dome.
• Place hat circle on the hat dome. Use a spoon to cup gently.
• Use cell stick to form frilly brim.
• Place on the cupcake base.
• Add flowers as desired.
• Here, I added the white daisies first, distributing evenly.
• Next, I added the orange medium blossoms.

4. White and pink polka dots

• Roll White and red sugar paste.
• Using a no 3 nozzle cut out the red.
• Place on the white just in the center so they are all centered on the dome not the hat’s brim.
• Roll such that the red blends with the white.
• Cut our the hat circle.
• Use a frill tool to create a frilly brim.
• Add a pink band.
• Add a daisy or a flower.
• Place on the cupcake base. Here, I am using pink instead of black.

5. Red and black spiral hat

• Roll red sugar paste. Rolls a thin black sausage.
• Place black sausage on the red in a spiral. Rollover with a rolling pin. You can texture if you wish.
• Cut out the hat circle.
• Place on hat dome, use the spoon to cup as shown above.
• Make flower and feather as shown in the orange straw hat above.

6. Back straw hat with pink bow

• Roll out black sugar paste. Texture as desired.
• Place on hat dome and cup to form the hat.
• Use cell stick to from frilly brim
• Add band and bow as shown in orange straw hat.
• Place on cupcake base.

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