Fondant Sushi Cupcake Toppers

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Fondant Sushi Cupcake Toppers - finished toppers prior to being placed on cupcakes Buying handmade edible cake and cupcake toppers is incredibly expensive! My friend wanted some for a party and saw they were $40 for a small set. I jumped in and made a bunch for a fraction of the price. If you can handle making shapes with Play Doh, you can totally make these. Follow along with my sushi ideas, or try your own favourites!

Supplies:

fondant (white, black, red, yellow, green)
rolling pin
plastic wrap
small knife
large knife
toothpick

Steps:

To make decorative rice grains (you won't need much, promise) take a small chunk of white fondant and knead it in your hands so it hardens up a bit. Now take tiny bits and roll into little balls. Set aside.

Fondant Sushi Cupcake Toppers - make rice from tiny bits of white fondant

To make nori (seaweed sheets), knead some black fondant in your hands, then roll it flat with a rolling pin to about 1/8" thickness. Cover loosely with plastic wrap so it does not dry out for now.

Fondant Sushi Cupcake Toppers - knead and roll black fondant for nori, cover with plastic wrap to keep from drying out

To mimic a piece of raw salmon, mix a little bit of red fondant with yellow fondant. Keep twisting and kneading it until it's a solid peach-orange colour.

Fondant Sushi Cupcake Toppers - mix red and yellow fondant, twist and knead until it is a peach-orange color for the salmon

To make a fatty marbleization, add a small bit of white fondant and twist it a few times.

Fondant Sushi Cupcake Toppers - add a bit of white and twist to add a fatty marbleization

To make the rice for under the salmon piece, take a small ball of white fondant and shape it into a rectangle. Round out the edges and use a knife to make indentations on it.

Fondant Sushi Cupcake Toppers - make a rectangle of white fondant with rounded edges, use a knife to create rice for under the salmon

Cut the salmon so it's about the same size as the rice ball.

Fondant Sushi Cupcake Toppers - cut the salmon so that it is the same size as the rice ball

Place the salmon on the rice, then use your small knife to add little indentations on the salmon.

Fondant Sushi Cupcake Toppers - place the salmon on the rice ball and then use the small knife to add indentations to the salmon

To make egg sushi, take another rounded/indented rectangle of rice, then make a rectangle from yellow fondant to look like egg. Keep it looking a bit crinkly-- it's more realistic for the egg!

Fondant Sushi Cupcake Toppers - use another rectangle of white fondant to make the egg sushi, keep the yellow rectangle crinkly to better resemble egg

Using your big knife, cut a long thin strip from the rolled out black fondant and wrap it around both segments as your nori wrapper.

Fondant Sushi Cupcake Toppers - cut a long rectangle from the rolled black fondant and wrap around the egg and rice sushi

To make a California roll, shape a piece of white fondant into a ball, then press down into a disc. Add a couple small pieces of your coloured fondants on top.

Fondant Sushi Cupcake Toppers - flatten a ball of white fondant for a California roll and add three different color balls of fondant

Cut a strip from the rolled out black fondant a little bigger than the height of the white rice round, then wrap it around. Pinch the end closed so you don't see the seam.

Fondant Sushi Cupcake Toppers - cut a strip of black fondant slightly taller than the height of the white mashed ball, roll it around the edge and pinch the seam together

Take some of the white rice grains you made earlier and drop them on top, around the coloured bits.

Fondant Sushi Cupcake Toppers - add rice grains

To make salmon roe sushi, roll out a rectangle of rice with the white fondant, then wrap with a long strip of the black rolled out fondant for the nori. Pinch the ends closed and smooth out the seam.

Fondant Sushi Cupcake Toppers - roll out a rectangle of white fondant for the rice, wrap with a strip of the black and pinch the ends together and smooth

Make a reddish-peach fondant by mixing together red and a bit of yellow. Take tiny segments of it and roll into small balls. Don't over roll because you want these to stay a bit sticky so you can stack them.

Fondant Sushi Cupcake Toppers - mix more red and yellow fondant and make small balls - don't over roll thereby keeping them sticky

Place a mound of the salmon roe balls onto the rice.

Fondant Sushi Cupcake Toppers - place a mound of the salmon roe on the rice layer

Mix a bit or green fondant with some white fondant to make a light green shade. This will be your cucumber. Roll a cylinder of white fondant for rice, then wrap in some of the nori (a little higher than the rice). Place a small square of the light green fondant on top.

Fondant Sushi Cupcake Toppers - mix green fondant with white to make a light green for the cucumber, make a cylinder of white fondant and wrap with a strip of black and then place the cucumber on top

Use your toothpick to poke holes into the cucumber to mimic seeds. Pour some of the white rice grains on top to fill in the space.

Fondant Sushi Cupcake Toppers - mimic seeds by poking the green bit with a toothpick and then add rice grains around it

To make a piece of shrimp, take some of the peach fondant and twist in some white for marbleization.

Fondant Sushi Cupcake Toppers - to make the shrimp, marbleize some of the peach fondant with white, twisting

Shape into a shrimp shape, tapering off the tail ends so they're quite thin.

Fondant Sushi Cupcake Toppers - create a shrimp shape and taper the tail ends so that they are quite thin

Use your knife to add a spinal indentation, then perpendicular lines across its back.

Fondant Sushi Cupcake Toppers - use knife to make an indentation on the tail parts, and then add indentations to the body

Roll a piece of white fondant into a rounded rectangle about the same size of the shrimp body. Add some indentations to it. Place the shrimp on top of the rice, allowing the tail to hang over the edge.

Fondant Sushi Cupcake Toppers - make a white rectangle, add indentations, and lay the shrimp on top with the tail draped over the edge

Place one piece of sushi on top of each cupcake and press into the frosting to secure. You could also lay these on top of a frosted sheet cake as a big sushi platter presentation!

Fondant Sushi Cupcake Toppers - place one piece of sushi on top of each cupcake

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