Dress your cupcakes up in wigs!

The pink hair that I wear is a wig. It’s my signature look as Amanda Cupcake. When people see me in my pink wig, they compliment me on my hair. When I tell them it is a wig, they ask how I make it look like it is SO REAL! I could just make a tutorial of me dressing up in wigs but since I am Amanda Cupcake, and I dress cupcakes up instead of people… I decided to throw a little wig cupcake class, by dressing adorable mini cupcakes in wigs. I made the cupcakes “mini” because these cupcakes were meant to play with! The wigs are placed on edible “cake pop” wig cap cupcake toppers. Every time I look at these cupcakes, they make me laugh. Each one has a unique and very vibrant personality. You can find the video on my channel HERE.

A background on how I became this Amanda Cupcake character: . I always say that Amanda Cupcake is what my soul looks like. The pink hair, the glitter, the quirky personality. I wasn’t always aware of Amanda Cupcake. I found her a little over 10 years ago after facing depression and PTSD. I needed a bright light in the middle of many hardships. So I started baking and playing with food/frosting. I had always wanted to be a fashion designer. Also-at the time I was living out in California, working in the fashion industry, trying to move forward. I wasn’t very happy in my role in the fashion industry. It was really stressful and it wasn’t helping me cope.. So while I was baking, I imagined what I might look like if I were the ultimate fashion designer of cupcakes. That’s when I found my inner Amanda Cupcake, and started a baking blog. I found my Amanda Cupcake character by dressing up cupcakes instead of people, so maybe if you try making these fantastic and over the top wig cupcakes, you might create your own character too!

Mini Wig Cupcakes recipe:

First step, prepare the “edible” hair that will go inside of the “wig cap” toppers.

Ingredients & Tools:
1 box white cake mix (do not follow recipe on box)
1 1/4 cups buttermilk
1/2 cup oil
4 eggs
1 box white chocolate pudding (dry)
Lorann oils, cotton candy flavor
Buttercream frosting (see recipe below)

How to:
Preheat oven to 325. Cream eggs & oil together in stand mixer. In separate mixing bowl, whisk dry ingredients together. Measure buttermilk & a few drops of cotton candy flavor in liquid measuring cup. Gradually alternate the addition of liquid & dry ingredients to creamed mixture in stand mixer. Once all ingredients are combined, add a few tiny drops of Americolor soft pink gel paste to get a pink pastel cotton candy color. Scoop batter into cupcake liners, filling about halfway. Bake at 325 for about 18-22 minutes. Let cool. Once cupcakes have cooled, take cupcakes out of liners and crumble them up into a bowl. Add little bits of frosting to the crumbled cupcakes until cake is the texture of play-doh. Cover & set aside. ***Tip: if you watch my baking video here you can see that I made chocolate cake too. You can use your favorite chocolate cake recipe if you want to go all out with a few different colors.

While baking & cooling the “edible hair” cake, whip up the batter for the mini cupcakes. Use the same recipe as above, but add Americolor gel paste in soft pink until you reach pastel pink cotton candy colored cake batter. Bake mini cupcakes for approx 14 minutes or until cupcakes spring up when you touch them. Let cupcakes cool.

Next step, prepare the wig cap cupcake toppers:

Ingredients & supplies needed:
Silicone mold–1 1/2″ domes
Silicone mold–miniature “poo” swirl molds
Candy melts–milk or dark chocolate, & white
Candy color (oil based): pink, yellow, green, red
Deep microwave proof bowls
Piping bags
Cotton candy
“Edible hair” cake play-doh mixture

*****You can find supplies at my amazon idea list here

Melt candy melts in the microwave in 15 second increments in 3 separate bowls: Dark chocolate, Ivory (melted white candy melts tinted with a few drops of yellow, green, red until peach “skin color” is reached. Add a very tiny bit of each at a time until you reach the desired skin color), Hot pink (melted white candy melts tinted with pink oil based candy color). Candy melts should melt smooth, like a pool of delicious chocolate. Do not microwave for too long, as candy melts will burn easily and once they burn, there is no turning back! It is important to microwave in small 15 second increments until the correct consistency is achieved.

Place silicone molds on parchment lined baking sheets. Using a spoon, pour melted candy melts into silicone mold, shape the candy melts into the shape of the mold with a spoon and drain any excess, so that there will be a hollow space after the candy melts have set. Once all chocolate has been poured, refrigerate the “wig caps” for about 10 minutes. If the first layer looks too thin, Add a second layer of melted candy to the molds and let harden again in the refrigerator. Leave the little wig caps in the mold. Insert the “edible hair” frosting/cake mixture into the candy melt wig caps. Optional: fill the poo swirl mold cake pops with cotton candy (because cotton candy makes the best edible hair)! “Seal” the hair in by filing a piping bag with matching melted candy melts and piping onto the top of the cake or cotton candy “hair.” Let harden in the refrigerator.

Next step: While the wig caps are setting, color frosting.
Frosting Ingredients:
1 lb butter (softened)
13 oz marshmallow cream
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
6-8 cups powdered sugar
Americolor gel paste: Soft Pink, Sky Blue, Leaf Green, Regal Purple (for the queens!!)

How to make:
Cream butter, marshmallow cream & vanilla extract together in stand mixer. Gradually add powdered sugar until frosting reaches stiff peaks. Mix colors in 5 separate bowls (I reserve a bowl of plain white for some fun white wig swirls). I like the colors to be more of a pastel so I add a little bit of color to each frosting bowl at a time until I reach desired cotton candy hair color.

Next Step: Pop the wig cap molds out and place the wig cap toppers on cupcakes!

Last Step: Style your wigs!
Ingredients & supplies:
Colored buttercream
Disposable piping bags
Small open star tips (tip #21 or #16)
Small round tips (size 8)
Mini lip sprinkles
Small bowl of melted candy melts
Toothpick

How to:
Melt a small bowl of candy melts. Dab a tiny amount of candy melts onto where the lips should be on the “face” of the wig caps. This will work as a “glue” for the “lipstick”. Place the lips onto the little dab of candy melt immediately. After all lips have been placed on the wig cap “faces”, cut a hole in the end of each disposable piping bag, and place desired decorating tips inside the hole at the end of piping bags. Fill each piping bag with a different color of frosting. Swirl different colors of “wig hair” on top of the wig cap cupcake toppers. The “poo swirl” wig caps make really fun cotton candy swirls that look like Marie Antoinette or even Dolly Parton hair!

Once finished, play with your adorable wigged out cupcakes and give them names! I did! Watch my tutorial video on how to make HERE!