4th of July cupcakes to craft for your dolls

Left, the dessert details seen from above. Right, paper bandana design printed on the cupcake liners.

       These delicious looking red, white and blue doll cupcakes are made with oven-bake clay, narrow cardboard tubes and cupcake liners. 
       First cut the thin cardboard tubing in short lengths. Then shape the decorative tops using the oven bake clay. I use Sculpey. Half of our cupcakes are decorated with blue icing and red strawberries. The other half are with white icing and blue berries. Well, with pretend ones anyway.
       I used a bandana cupcake liner cut down to glue neatly around the sides of the tubes. Then I cut small rounds from the liner scraps to cover the bottoms of our cupcakes using the same white school glue.

• See Halloween cupcakes we made for our doll's bakery! - If you missed making these sweet treats for this years 4th of July, you still have time to make them for Halloween!

Left, I used a bit of glitter glue to highlight the blue berries. I also drew in a few seeds
on the strawberries with a black permanent ink marker.