After scrapping psychotic ideas like making Finnick and Annie’s wedding cake in two days or setting fire to two loaves of bread that took 24 hours to make, I ended up going with good old cupcakes for my entry in The Hob’s Blogiversary baking contest. And while I didn’t win, they were so nice to offer up prizes to anyone who entered and so I got an awesome prize in the form of a copy of Katniss’ Entertainment Weekly issue, which I stupidly didn’t buy when it came out.
This is an unfrosted cupcake. I wanted to make cupcakes that looked like they were on fire, so I split up the batter for a yellow box cake and colored two bowls of batter: one red and one supposed-to-be-orange-but-looks-pink. Using a spoon, I added batter to the cups, alternating the three colors. I added each color twice. While the flames didn’t look as great as I wanted them to, it was still decent.
Here’s what they look like inside. It’s like an evil fire smile or something. I don’t know, you can come up with a better explanation of how this looks like fire. 🙂
Here’s the four Mockingjay cupcakes I made. I had the rest of the unfrosted cupcakes in the fridge and I told the kids they could eat one if they got ready for school really fast. My son got ready like lightning and asked if he could go get his. I didn’t even think about it and told him to go ahead. I go into the living room a few minutes later and he’s sitting on the couch, the mockingjay pin already swallowed. I couldn’t help it and I let out a shriek, which made him jump and start crying, even though I tried to tell him it was just because I didn’t want him to go to school with black teeth from the frosting. Poor little guy…
Here’s a closer look at it. Watch a video on how to make these.
Special ingredients you’ll need for these include Fondarific Black Fondant
The next day, I decided to do two more cupcakes, but only made one of each of them.
Cupcake for The Hunger Games yet again.
Cupcake for Catching Fire. Don’t mind the cracks. 🙁
Cupcake for Mockingjay. I kept trying to mix my dark blue fondant with white to get the sky blue but it just wasn’t working. Afterwards, I remembered that I should have just tinted white fondant with my gel colors. It’s been a while since I’ve done this, so I totally brainfarted. I painted the mockingjay with the gel coloring.
Here’s each cupcake next to the bird on the cover of the books, just so you can see! Thanks to The Hob for hosting such a fun contest!
EEEEEE!!!!!! These are soo cool!! I love that you even made the batter on fire 😀 very nice!
Thanks Jenn!
Those are incredible! I especially love the pins! And don’t beat yourself up, the batter flames are awesome! These would be perfect for the movie premiere!
Thank you Taylor! Glad you like the flames. 😀
Those are awesome!!!! I especially like the catching fire one(:
Thanks Isabel!
Could you post a recipe for these? For the people who don’t really know much about cooking but are really eager to try. -timidly raises hand-
Hi Christina,
There isn’t much of a recipe to post or I’d have posted one! I just used yellow box cake colored for the cupcakes. Then black fondant for the top and white fondant colored with gold glaze for the pin. That’s all there is to it, cupcakes and frosting. 🙂
these are awesome! The pins look like a huge amount of work!
I think with shaping and painting, it probably took about 15 minutes per pin, which isn’t too bad!
GENIUS!!!! if i had your skill and patience i would make some of these for my hunger games party of 1 celebrating the movie premier next year…i’ll try and come up with something half as cool though…or maybe i’ll just have some hot chocolate :p
They’re not too bad really! The cake I did was way, WAY worse.
These are GORGEOUS!! Amazing fondant work and I love the “fire” look to the cake part too.
Thanks Jen!
AMAZING!!!! I would KILL to have these!! I should have you cater a Hunger Games part!!! 😉
Haha, I could actually sell the fondant pins. People sell fondant stuff on etsy!
I’m not gonna lie, this was totally the same idea I had for the contest! I didn’t end up having enough time to do it (I left on vacation that week. :P) but yours turned out way better then mine ever would have anyway. >.<
Oh that’s too funny! I know what you mean about not having enough time, I almost didn’t make them!
Hi! I really liked your cupcakes! they’re so sweet! I’m from Chile and I’d like to make some cupcakes! Would you give me the ingredients? Thank you 🙂 !
Hi Waleska, I just made them using a box cake mix and fondant!
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wowzer,pretty cool!i would have never had been able to make such awesome cupcakes.did they taste as good as they look?
As long as you like fondant cupcakes, they were great!
Would you recommend taking an exacto knife and tracing the fondant on the mockingjay symbol from the book?
I think that’d be difficult. I’ve tried using an xacto to cut out letters and it tends to be hard to get it to look nice.
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These look SO cool! I wish you could do this for my birthday party….. That would be AWESOME!
I LOVE THIS BLOG!!
Oh and for the flames could you use food coloring
Thank you Hailey!
wow these are fabulous !
Thank you!
@Graesy Sae where do u live ÉÉ do you have a store if so is it availibloe in canada ÉÉÉ i love ur work!!
I live in Hawaii and I usually buy my fondant at craft stores or WalMart.
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Wow. These are the perfect combination of my two obsessions right now: food and the Hunger Games. They look amazing!
Thanks Karen!
I’m an absoulute HUGE fan of the Hunger Games and these cupcakes are fantastic! These are beautiful! Love love love them! I’m so glad my friend sent me the link! They look delicious, but I would hate to eat them because they are so perfect! =D Great job!
Thanks Isabella!
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Gorgeous cupcakes! Love your blog concept!
I love these! I just was like “wow, omg! Amazing!” Amazing work and the fire idea is awesome
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nice..and i hope i can eat it while watching the movie later ^__^
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Those are amazing!!! i really want to make some for my hunger games party. if i didn’t use fondant and iced them regularly would the pin still stick and will it still look nice? and where do you normally buy your fondant? can you find it in normal grocery stores? thx for all the help!!!:)
Hi Gabbi, Sorry, but I don’t know what you mean by “ice them regularly”?
I buy the fondant online, at craft stores, or at WalMart. Anyplace with cake supplies should have it.
i meant icing it and not using fondant
Do you sell these?
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Your cupcakes are AMAZING. I hope you don’t mind, I pinned them on Pinterest, but if you mind, I can take them down. I included a link to your blog site. 🙂 I HAVE to make these for my friend who just had a baby and probably won’t be able to go to the opening show like she dreamed of! Plus, she introduced me to the series, so I MUST do something sweet for her 🙂
That’s totally okay! I hope she loves them!
Me and my daughter love The Hunger Games and I call her Peeta’s long lost daughter because she bakes like crazy. When i came across the idea on another website, she screamed and begged me to teach her how. It took me three days of on and off searching and i found this website… Thank you so much for all of this! Hope you have a happy March O’ The Games!!! ~And may the odd’s be in your favor!~
could i somehow convince you to make like 12 of those pins and send them or me if you did i’d gladly give you some money like around $15
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AWWWW these are soo cuutttee!!!!!!! I wish i had cupcakes like these, then my life would be 100% complete. <3 ;D
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how do you make the Mockingjays? I want to make them but i fail at that part! Ba Ha
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omg!!!!!!!! so cute i would love it if you would just send me ! of those cupcakes!!! i could pay you 10 dollars or something!! please please please1!!
omg!!!!! sooooooooooooooo freakin cute! im seriously obssesed with the hunger games and i would love to order them! do u happen to sell and if so… what price???!!!:)
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Hey I am thinking about making these for about 25/26 people and I don’t think they will like fondant do you think it will work if I used a normal icing mixture and add food coloring then for the pin use Something that is like fondant but they will all like
I have researched fondant and most people say that fondant isn’t very nice
Sorry, but I have no idea how you’d make the pins without fondant. If anything, just top the cupcakes with buttercream and stick the pin on top. Then tell them they don’t *have* to eat the pin.
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Sorry I meant to say royal icing
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… AMAZING! I approve, and I’m sure Madge would think it captures the essence of her pin!
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First off let me say these cupcakes are amazing. I just turned 12 a few days ago (which is great considering I’m not in Panem) and I love EVERTHING about the games. I have posters all over my walls and everything. Anyways I’m getting off topic. My birthday party is coming up in a few weeks and the theme is the Hunger Games! We’ve got almost everything figured out…. except the treats! So when I saw these I just fell in love. I was wondering if you delivered and if so how much 2 dozen of them would cost. Thanks so much!
Hi, my daughter is having a Hunger Games birthday party in March and I love these cupcakes. I can make the cupcakes, but not the fondant pins! I was wondering if you sell them and ship. I would like 2 dozen of the mockingjay pins or even one large pin that I could put on a cake. Is this possible? Thanks!
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