Craft Doll Sized Rainbow Cupcakes

Rainbow iced cupcakes for our doll's St. Patrick's Day celebration.

       Here are our latest versions of cupcakes for St. Patrick's Day. I found tiny print liners having green and white checks and green polka-dots to glue onto the outside edges of our doll's cupcake treats. 

       You may need to cut down toilet roll tubes to lengths and shapes more appropriate to 18" dolls, as I did here, if you do not have a narrow paper tube on hand for this craft. Don't forget to cut and paste a top from thin cardboard for the top end of these tube shapes. This is necessary in order to glue on oven baked clay icing.

       I also used a tiny Sculpey cookie cutters to make the clay cutouts for each cupcake; a clover for the rainbow iced versions and a moon shape to turn on it's side for a rainbow on top of my coconut flavored versions below. 

       I have made two more sets of holiday cupcakes previously for crafters to read about and see even more details. You may wish to review their content to read more about how these tiny treats are put together.

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The lucky rainbow cupcake in progress.

       Don't put the cardboard cupcakes with liners into the oven. Bake the clay elements separately from these and hot glue them to the top of each cupcake shape after letting them cool. Then paint the tops with acrylics. We use all the colors of the rainbow for the versions above and below: red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple.

The coconut cloud cupcakes in progress.

       It is least messy to paint the rainbows on top of the faux coconut cupcakes before decorating the icing with white paint and glitter. 

       These tiny moon shaped rainbows look like they are hovering over a pile of coconut icing shaped clouds! Brush on white school glue to the surfaces of the clay clouds and sprinkle on a generous helping of sparkly transparent glitter to make the coconut flavored topping.