Any old excuse will do

There's been a bit of talk around here of late about things I just can't resist - here's another to add to the list:
I can not resist any excuse at all for a cupcake!!!

So I simply had to do something for the Celebration of Wool on the weekend!

Actually, I've been looking for an excuse to make these babies ever since I saw them on Flickr and Vegan Yum yum (oooh the foody photos!!), and so I jumped at the chance to make them as bring-along sustenance to share around at our Knit Cafe on Sunday.

I made 2 dozen of my usual recipe cupcakes(vanilla and cranberry), and followed this tutorial to make little blue, yellow and green yarn balls to pop on top =)

The sugar paste yarn balls were (as you might guess) a little fiddly - I think the sugar paste might be trickier to work with than marzipan - but for me fiddly is really half the fun anyway, and one I got my technique down they were much easier.

The icing was pink (pinker than it looks here, I think) butter cream, which was kept quite firm by the chilly weather.

I think next time I'll try out some of the little sugar paste knitted garments too, the cuppies on Vegan Yum Yum have little jumpers and scarves!
Too cute =)

xo