DIY Doll Cupcakes for Valentine's Day

Above you can see the finished cupcakes and the liners that I cut apart to trim and finish the 18 inch doll deserts.

       Each one of these doll cupcakes will serve two 18 inch appetites if your dolls are not too hungry! Shape their tops to look like your favorite treats. I decorated some of these cake sweets with cherubim, hearts, strawberries, cherries, doves and even a little rose! I also added a little red or white glitter glue to make them extra tempting!

Top, paper tubes. Bottom, sculpted clay cupcakes
before they have been painted.

Supply List:

• narrow cardboard tube
• cardboard
• tacky white glue
• Sculpey
• acrylic paints: red, pink, brown, white etc...
• Valentine cupcake liners
• mini cookie cutters
• mini candy molds
• glitter glue
• Mod Podge
• hot glue gun and hot glue
• Xacto knife

 Step-by-Step Directions:

1.  Cut the narrow cardboard tube into 1inch sections.
2. Glue these down to a piece of scrap cardboard with white tacky glue. Let them dry.
3. Cut the tubes apart from the cardboard and trim them so that each segment has a closed end.
4. I hand-shaped my cupcake tops on top of the closed end of the tub in order to give the clay support. 
5. Use long snake shapes from the clay to wrap around the top of the cupcake making the icing.
6. Roll out tiny spheres for the cherries and poke a hole into the top of each to insert their stems.
7. I molded the tiny doves and cherubim from candy molds and baked these ahead of time to stick into the cupcake icing. (see pictures of the clay shapes here.)
8. Again, I did the same with the hearts only I used tiny mini cookie cutters to cut out the tiny Valentines. These may be baked ahead of time. They will adhere to the icing once baked together in the oven at 275 degrees. You should not need to remove the sculpted clay tops from the cardboard tubes once these have been baked together in the oven. The oven temperature is too low for the paper tubes to burn.
9. Paint your cupcakes however you would like! I used traditional Valentine colors: red, pink, white. 
10. I also painted on the glitter glue to add some sparkle.
11. After the painting dries, cut the ribbed edges of the cupcake liners apart from the bottoms of the cupcake liner.
12. Carefully reattach the ribbed liners around the lower half of the paper tubes.
13. Now you can re-cut the bottoms of the liners to the size of the miniature cupcake bottoms and glue them in place.
14. Coat the clay parts of the cupcakes with Mod Podge when you have finished to help keep the Valentine party treats looking new.

Left and Right, close up photos of the doll sized cupcakes for Valentine's Day.
See how I displayed them on a crafted cupcake stand here.

See more clay cupcake projects and ideas:

• A clay cupcake lesson plan from my ArtEducationDaily blog
• DIY American Girl Cupcakes using Model Magic clay
• DIY Barbie doll food! How to make easy miniature cakes, Starbucks, Cupcakes etc...