Like any little kid, my son loves Angry Birds, so with his birthday this week, I decided to surprise him with a big batch of Angry Birds cupcakes to take with him to school. After printing out pictures and finding out that there’s actually an Angry Birds Wiki, I got started. Since I didn’t have any green fondant, I had to use white and mix it with green until it was the color I wanted. Unfortunately, this took FOOOOR-EVVVER and I was mixing the colors for what felt like half an hour or more. Finally though, I got my green. I used “Leafy Green” from my set of gels from Wilton
The nose of the pigs are slightly lighter in color, so I had to mix in some yellow with the already greened. I made 12 pigs in total: 5 regular pigs, 3 mustache pigs, 3 soldier pigs, and 1 king pig.
Here’s the first pig I made. I used toothpicks to poke the holes and draw the eyebrows, piping gel to get everything to stick together, and a drinking straw to cut out even amounts of white fondant to flatten into eyes.
Here are all four types of pigs lined up. I used a toothpick to cut the orange mustache and then cut stiff strips of orange for the straps in soldier pig’s helmet. Since I didn’t do these ahead of time and only had one night to do it, I decided not to take the time to do process photos. What a good idea that was because I wouldn’t have finished these.
I wrapped up the last boomerang bird at around 5:50 AM. I didn’t get to go to bed at all! 🙁 They look worth it though, don’t they? My cupcakes fell flat sadly, probably because I randomly added pudding mix in an attempt to increase my batter amount. Luckily, frosting covers all cupcake sins.
I made cream cheese frosting, which I like because it’s creamy, sweet, but doesn’t contain a whole pound of sugar to taste good.
After I frosted them all, I inserted a toothpick into the big ones (not the little birds!) to hold them up.
Here’s another shot, this time with the yellow bird in front:
After I broke my back and nearly killed myself making these, I walked it to the school and soon found myself surrounded by kindergartners, all trying to talk over the other people in order to tell me which bird was their favorite to use.
I made two birds each of the yellow, red, black, blue, and white birds. The boomerang bird was a bit of a challenge with such a long beak, but I laid him on another bird to hold him up until he dried. I used fondant for all of it, just using piping gel to stick everything together.
Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have to go end this 36 hour sleep deprivation.
OH MY GOODNESS BEYOND CUTE!!!! I am in such awe of your skills. 😛
Thanks Julia! <3
Wow! They are awesome both because of how they look and how in awe I am at your stamina and dedication!
Believe me, I slept like a rock last night!
My son is obsessed with Angry birds. He would love these.
Needless to say, my son’s class loved them!
Oh wow, they’re brilliant!
Thanks Suz!
These are delightful!! So much fun!
Thank you Deborah!
Oh my god, these are beautiful!
These are amazingly beautiful! I have been trying to figure out how to make angry brid cupcakes for my son’s 4th birthday and it is not an easy task! Would you be willing to make some and sell them???
Oof, I dunno, I have so little free time as it is. If I do, I’ll post about it!
These are amazing! Thanks so much for posting this as I am so going to try to do this for my sons 2nd birthday. Do you think you could make these in advance and then put them in the fridge? You did an amazing job, I hope I can do half as well as you! 😀
Hi Sarah, You shouldn’t refrigerate fondant. Just store them in an airtight container in the dark (a cabinet or something) and they’ll be fine!
Great! Thanks!
Those are amazing! That is going to be my project tonight for my kids party on Sunday, thank you so much for posting, I’m now inspired! I only hope mine come out a quarter as good as yours 😉
Good luck!
Okay, you’re officially the cupcake queen, goddess, and rock star all in one!
I wish I was in your sons class so I could of had one of those cakes!! They look amazing!
Hi Crystal! Those are too cute! The cupcake wrappers really help top it off. I just made an Angry Birds Cake and would love any comments if you want to check it out:)
http://littlelionbakedgoods.com/2012/04/06/angry-birds-cake/
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Just wondering…using cream cheese frosting under the fondant decoration would be fine, right? I thought the fondant decoration can only stand for butter cream frosting only!!! Please tell me if I get it right or not, coz I’m going to make the cupcakes for my son in this coming Saturday for his birthday. Thanks!!!
Hi Fong, I actually used cream cheese frosting for these as I love it much better than buttercream. It’s totally fine!
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OMG! These are so adorable! I don’t anything about Angry Birds except that it is a game, and I am seeing more and more items (shirts, key chains, etc) of them in the stores. You did such a fabulous job! Very cool!