Wild Lion Cupcakes

Lion cupcakes are always fun to make. Making the lion's hair is the fun part.

There are many ideas to make the hair and one of them is using icing, which I am going to show below.

Here Comes The Lion

Ingredients

• Cupcake - any recipe

• Buttercream icing in orange, dark brown and red

• Marzipan in yellow

Decorating Method

1. First roll out yellow marzipan until it is evenly flat.

2. Take a round cut out and cut into a round shape for the face.

3. Place it in the middle of the the cupcake.

4. Next, pipe out orange icing using tip #233 and pipe all around the marzipan to make the hair.

5. Now, create the face. Pipe out brown icing using tip #1 to pipe the eyes and mouth.

6. Using tip #1 again, pipe a dot of red icing for the nose. You're done.

Lion Cuppies

I found these royal icing lion toppers and had to use them for my cupcake decorating projects.

Straight away went home and baked myself some cupcakes.

Here's the end result.

Ingredients

• Cupcakes - any recipe

• Buttercream icing in light green

• Royal icing lion toppers

• green heart sprinkles

Decorating Method

1. Make a swirl on each cupcake using the green buttercream icing.

2. Place some green heart sprinkles on each cupcake.

3. Place one lion topper on each cupcake.

Smiley Lion with M&Ms

A cute lion cupcake idea is to use M&Ms chocolate candies. In the steps below, I will explain how.

For those who want simple steps but great results, these lion cupcakes might be the solution for you.

Ingredients

• Cupcakes - any recipe

• Buttercream icing in yellow

• M&M candies in orange, blue and brown

• licourice strip in red

Decorating Method

1. Cover cupcakes with yellow buttercream icing.

2. Neatly place orange M&Ms around the cupcake.

3. Place two brown M&Ms for the eyes, and one blue M&M for the nose.

4. Cut two pieces of licourice strip and place under the nose.

Check out other lion related cupcakes

• Jungle Safari Cupcakes

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