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.

Cupcake toppers on a blue background — Cupcake Toppers - Fondant Hats

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.

Table of Content

About these cupcakes
Things you will need
Prepare cupcake base
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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.

Hat cupcake toppers on a blue background — Cupcake Toppers - Fondant Hats

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.

A collage tutorial for black cupcake toppers — Cupcake Toppers - Fondant Hats

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.

A collage for orange cupcake hat toppers — Cupcake Toppers - Fondant Hats

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.

A collage for cupcake toppers — Cupcake Toppers - Fondant Hats

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.

A collage for hat toppers — Cupcake Toppers - Fondant Hats

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.

White polka dot hat toppers tutorial — Cupcake Toppers - Fondant Hats

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.