Emoji Mini Cupcakes – bite-sized cupcakes topped with bright yellow buttercream frosting and fun emoji faces that will bring smiles to any celebration.
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I've wanted to make Emoji Mini Cupcakes forever. I also want to make emoji cookies, which remain on my baking wish list.
Anywho, I finally got around to making the Emoji Mini Cupcakes, and I struggled with whether to share them with you.
The truth is, they weren't easy and they didn't turn out as good as I would have liked.
The perfectionist in me says, don't share them. She usually wins. I am trying not to let her.
Emoji Mini Cupcakes were made with my favorite chocolate banana cupcakes and vanilla buttercream recipes.
The type of cake you use for these cupcakes isn't pertinent, but I seriously live for chocolate banana cupcakes, and Very Banana Cupcakes are a blog favorite.
These pizza cupcakes for my sister's birthday were also chocolate banana cupcakes. Like I said, LIVE FOR IT!
And since I am going crazy for chocolate banana cupcakes, I will also say that the vanilla buttercream is the ONLY vanilla buttercream I make these days. It's so freakin' good I'd eat it with a spoon if that wasn't frowned upon.
To make the Emoji Mini Cupcakes I colored the vanilla buttercream with Americolor Soft Gel Paste Electric Yellow. I used a disposable pastry bag filled with yellow buttercream and fitted with a no.1A round decorating tip. I squished a blob of frosting onto the top of the cupcake (those are technical terms) and then used a straight decorating spatula to smooth out the top to give it a flat frosting surface for the emoji faces. It was all very technical (no, it wasn't) and this IS the easy part.
For the faces, I used white, blue, pink, and black buttercream (Americolor Soft Gel Pastes - Sky Blue, Deep Pink, and Super Black). I put the various frosting colors into disposable pastry bags all fitted with no.2 round decorating tips.
Once I had my frostings and pastry bags all good to go it was all a matter of looking at emojis and recreating them onto the mini cupcakes.
I also used royal icing eyes, jumbo red heart quins, and gold star candy for a couple of the faces, but those faces could also strictly be piped.
Tips for Emoji Mini Cupcakes
First, the smaller the round tip the easier it is to make your emoji faces. I recommend using a no.2 round decorating tip over cutting the corner off a baggie which will be more difficult and produce a messy result.
Second, practice makes it closer to perfect. The more Emoji Mini Cupcakes I decorated the easier it got. Most things worth doing require practice. You are doing a lot of piping and piping is an art.
Third, it's mini cupcakes. Have fun with it. Life is too short to constantly strive for perfection. 🙂
Gloria Wenman says
They wouldn't be on the plate long enough to worry about how perfect the piping is.
Personally I think they look great. They bring a smile to my face. Adore them, enjoy them then go to the gym to burn them off!