How to Make Fondant Chick Cupcake Toppers {Farm Animal Cupcake Toppers Series, Part 1}

Okay – the name of this post is seriously too long… How to Make Fondant Chick Cupcake Toppers  {Farm Animal Cupcake Toppers Series, Part 1}.    Ha!

Update:  You can also see how to do sheep, cows, and pigs here:  Farm Animal Cupcake Toppers Series (just scroll through all the posts!).

I planned to do one post with all the different farm animals and then it took me over an hour to make the collage for just the chicks.

You see… I’m on vacation this week (riding big roller coasters and other fun stuff like that!) and I really hadn’t planned to post at all, but then it rained all day and I slept for several hours trying to rid myself of a migraine and then I figured since there wasn’t much else to do while the kids watched a movie… I’d throw together a quick post.

Except it wasn’t so “quick” to make that collage, so I gave up after just the chicks.  When I get home I’ll try to do the other animals… 🙂

And it’ll probably be better anyway if I do a post for each animal…  right?  Okay, good!

To do the chick, you’ll need the following (shown in step 1):

• Yellow and orange fondant; I used homemade marshmallow fondant
• A black food marker
• Sugar Glue
• Paint brush
• Round Cookie Cutter, about 2″
• Mini triangle and flower cutters
• Small Rolling Pin (I use the Wilton 9″ fondant rolling pin)

The pictures are self-explanatory.  Roll out the yellow fondant and cut out 2″ round circles.  Then roll out the orange and cut out the beaks (triangles) and feet (flowers).  I attach them with sugar glue to the yellow circle.  After that, I draw on the eyes!!  That’s it!

I’ve done other chicks and had a few variations… one was almost all buttercream – you can see it in the Barnyard Full of Cupcakes post (warning:  old post with not-so-great pictures!).

Then I did similar fondant chicks in this set of Barnyard Cupcakes with a Pig Smash Cake – except I piped a little fluff of hair on the top and didn’t add the feet!