Mosaic Magic
I bought a brilliant book recently, the Australian Women's Weekly "Easy Cupcakes by Colour" and just had to try out this idea asap! Basically, it's having fun with sweets and cupcakes :)
In the book they had done mosaic cupcakes in pink and blue/green, so I decided to go with blue, green, yellow & red.
I must admit, sometimes when I want to try out an idea I never know if I'm going to be as successful as the pics in the book, they always look so perfectly done. Well, as soon as I started making these, things just fell into place and they looked great. What a brilliant idea!
These cupcakes are eye catching and interesting as well as fun with the different sweets on top. I sat picking off and eating the sweets before even digging into the cupcake, I felt a bit like a kid!
One little tip is to be creative with the sweets you find, a fruit pastille may just look like a round sugar coated gummy sweet, but cut it up and it's a shiny gummy rectangle, or if you buy rope sweets filled with white fondant, cut those up and it's a round white disc with blue, green or red gum border (or in my case, little "flowers").
For these cupcakes I made plain vanilla batter and coloured butter frosting in bright colours. I decorated using smarties, peanut M&Ms, skittles, fruit pastilles & fondant filled ropes, and because blue sweets seems a little harder to find, I used blue jelly beans as well. Yum!
You can use any cupcake batter you like and any icing that's thick and will hold your sweets in place, and of course, the sweet selection you can choose from is limitless, anything goes!
I really do recommend Women's Weekly recipe books, they're filled with fantastic recipes that you know will turn out great and the pictures are really stunning, I find myself browsing through just to look at the photos :)
Inspired by the Australian Women's Weekly "Easy Cupcakes by Colour" :)
Candy, Colourful, Cupcakes, Decoration, Sweets in Decoration 
Reader Comments (9)
These are very cute and nicely decorated!
I LOVE these cupcakes! I have never seen the fondant filled candy ropes. Where can I get them?
Thank you!
Audree
Audree, the only place I've found those sort of fondant filled ropes is in sweet shops with pick and mix. Haven't yet found them in grocery stores ready packed or anything.
Our video store actually has a small selection of pick and mix and that's where I got those "flower" ones from, but I've also seen them at the cinema's pick & mix, as well as places likes "Sweets from Heaven" etc.
I hope that helps!
Beautiful and so-much-fun cupcakes! Love love love it... The inner child in me is screaming to go out and play with colors and sweets :-)
Sawadee from Bangkok,
Kris
Mandy..how on earth did I miss these beauties?? I popped in to see if you made anything since the cheesecake, and was scrolling down, drooling all the way and boom, these popped out like someone opened the door to Willy Wonka's chocolate river room! I could have sworn I had commented on these..but saw I didn't and it shocked the heck out of me because they are so festive, colorful and just yummy looking! I could never make cupcakes look like that. Now, gimme gimmee gimme that candy! :)
These look really nice, I think I have that book so I am off to see what else I have missed in it.
My kids would love these.
Julie,
I absolutely LOVE AWW. From the photos to the creative ideas to the recipes, they're just winners, every one of them. This particular cupcake book is one of my favourites, you should definitely dig through it for some ideas :)
I have included your cupcakes (the blue mosaic one in particular) in our 50 colorful cupcake feature on Party Cupcake Ideas. You can see it here under Blue. They are fantastic!! http://partycupcakeideas.com/50-colorful-cupcakes/
Ohh Mandy they lovely lovely!!!