Description
These Gone Fishing Cupcakes are an adorable Father’s Day dessert or fishing birthday party treat, topped with a pretzel fishing pole, fondant fishing line, goldfish cracker catch, and filled with surprise sprinkles inside.
Ingredients
Scale
- 12 vanilla cupcakes (homemade or store-bought)
- 12 goldfish crackers
- 12 pretzel sticks
- White fondant
- Green fondant
- Under the sea sprinkle mix
- White sugar pearl sprinkles
- 1 cup (2 sticks) softened butter
- 4 cups powdered sugar
- 3 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 4 tablespoons heavy cream
- Blue food coloring
- 1 disposable piping bag
- Wilton #1M or #2D piping tip
Instructions
- In a large bowl, beat the softened butter until light and fluffy.
- Slowly add powdered sugar, one cup at a time, mixing well after each addition.
- Stir in vanilla extract and heavy cream.
- Add blue food coloring a few drops at a time until desired shade is reached.
- Beat until smooth and creamy.
- Use a cupcake corer, melon baller, or small knife to core the center of each cupcake without cutting through the bottom.
- Fill each hole with under the sea sprinkle mix.
- Replace the cupcake core on top to cover the filling.
- Spoon blue frosting into a piping bag fitted with a Wilton #1M or #2D tip.
- Pipe swirls of frosting onto each cupcake to create a lake look.
- Roll small pieces of white fondant into thin ropes about ¾ inch long for fishing lines.
- Roll green fondant into thin twisted strips for lake greenery and let dry for a few minutes.
- Stick a pretzel stick into the side of each cupcake as the fishing pole.
- Attach the white fondant fishing line to the top of the pretzel.
- Add a goldfish cracker to the end of each fondant line as the catch.
- Arrange green fondant greenery around the frosting.
- Sprinkle white sugar pearls over the frosting to look like bubbles.
Notes
For a shortcut, use boxed cake mix or store-bought cupcakes. Let kids help decorate with the goldfish crackers and sprinkles for extra fun.
- Prep Time: 30 minutes
- Cook Time: 0 minutes
- Category: Dessert
- Method: No-Bake
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 cupcake
- Calories: 380
- Sugar: 42g
- Sodium: 220mg
- Fat: 18g
- Saturated Fat: 11g
- Unsaturated Fat: 6g
- Trans Fat: 0g
- Carbohydrates: 54g
- Fiber: 0g
- Protein: 2g
- Cholesterol: 50mg