Clare's rainbow birthday cupcakes!

Happy Birthday dear sister! may you have a wonderful year ahead of you :)
i made rainbow cupcakes to brighten up your day!

lets go fly a kite, up to the highest height.
lets go fly a kite and send it soaring...

sweet 19 today

is it a bird.. is it a plane.. no its super-pig!

i absolutely enjoyed making these, and got happier and happier as they came together
they are actually rainbow cupcakes (they never seem to work out perfectly for me so hope you have better luck)
buttercream covered in fondant with fondant decorations, buttercream clouds and royal icing banners

the banners are particularly fragile. i smashed 2 just photographing them, and i was being unusually careful!
(instructions on how to make them below)

make extras because they break break break!

Make Royal icing Banners: i printed out the banner shape and slid the printout under a sheet of baking paper. using stiff royal icing i piped the shapes and flooded them in white royal icing. also pipe lines of icing which will be the rods to hold up the banners. when the banners dried a few hours later, i piped the writing and outlines ontop with stiff purple royal icing. let that dry. carefully remove them from the paper, turn them over and glue the rods to the back of the banner with a blob of royal icing. let that dry.