Sugar Skull Cupcake Toppers

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Last Updated on 13th August 2021 by Vicki

Hi everyone, my children absolutely loved designing these sugar skull cupcake toppers. It was such a fun kid’s cupcake decorating idea. All you need is a skull cutter and a variety of cake decorating items. I let my girls run wild with some of mine! They used edible writing pens, edible glitter, edible lustre dust, edible sequins, sugar pearls and different coloured fondant. I used a skull cookie cutter. If you don’t have one, there are many different ones on Amazon. I’ve listed all the items that we used below, but you could probably find sufficient cake decorating items at your local supermarket.

Preparation For The Sugar Skulls

To begin with I cut out some sugar skulls from white modelling paste. I then left these to dry overnight. If you are using edible pens, it’s important to ensure the modelling paste has hardened, so you can write on it without damaging the surface.

Decorating The Sugar Skulls

Once the skulls have hardened they are ready to be decorated. My girls really enjoyed making these. Once they were finished, I simply placed them on top of a cupcake that was already covered with black fondant. If necessary, you can use a tiny amount of water or edible glue to help them stick.

I hope you enjoyed reading about this kids’ cake decorating activity. My girls thoroughly enjoyed decorating the sugar skull cupcake toppers. In fact, my youngest has been making them all week! Below are amazon links to some of the items that we used in this activity.

Renshaw Flower and Modelling Paste : https://amzn.to/2G0Ccez
PME White Sugar Pearls : https://amzn.to/3dYy6jv
PME Green Sugar Pearls : https://amzn.to/34u84Sd
Edible Silver Sequins : https://amzn.to/37MvWT1
PME Gold Glitter Flakes : https://amzn.to/2Hy59i
Cake Star Edible Glue : https://amzn.to/2FZ1f1q
Rainbow Dust Edible Pens : https://amzn.to/3jrTL4J
Sugarflair Silver Sparkle Lustre Dust : https://amzn.to/3orzikg

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