Yields: 12 decorated cupcakes
Ingredients:
- One dozen vanilla cupcakes
- 1 stick butter, softened
- 2 cups confectioners’ sugar
- 2-3 tbsp milk
- 2 drops yellow gel food coloring
- 4-5 oz. red fondant
- 1 oz. white fondant
- Edible silver glitter
Instructions:
When you’re about to begin the decorating process, ensure that your cupcakes are completely cool. This will prevent your buttercream from slipping off each cupcake.
In a medium-sized bowl, use an electric mixer and beat butter, sugar and milk on slow speed. These ingredients will make up your buttercream frosting.
Gradually increase the speed to high and once the ingredients are smooth and form semi-stiff peaks, the buttercream is ready.
Add yellow gel food coloring to the buttercream and mix until completely tinted.
Scoop the buttercream into a frosting bag with Wilton 1M tip attached. Frost each cupcake.
To make Iron Man’s hand: roll 12 spheres out of your red fondant, about ½ an inch in size.
Flatten each sphere, so that it’s about 1 inch in diameter.
To start shaping the hand, use a paring knife to cut out a small triangle from your fondant circle (your circle will look similar to Pac Man).
To proceed, cut slits and give the hand 4 fingers.
Trim the sides to give the hand a more realistic shape. Round out the edges and smoothen any imperfections out.
With your white fondant, roll out 12 spheres, about ¼ of an inch in size.
Pour some edible glitter into a bowl and add a few drops of water. Use a small brush and paint each white sphere with the glitter. Place one sphere on each hand.
Top each cupcake with Iron Man’s hand. Serve and enjoy!
Mandy
These are so cool! My eight year old boy would absolutely love these – saving to make!
Fiona Cambouropoulos
These are just adorable. I love the little hand, such a clever idea and a tasty one too!.
Norafiqin
Those are such cute cupcakes! I normally make mine with buttercream, simply because fondant is really hard to work with.
Lyosha
such a cute idea! Ideal for parties and birthdays. or what ever. it is just too cute! thanks for the idea!
Heather
These are adorable! I bet my little one would love them (she’s a huge fan)
Krysten Quiles
These are SO CUTE! You did an excellent job, thanks so much for sharing!
Njkinny
These look adorable and so delicious. I am sure my kid will love them . He is a big fam of Iron Man. Thanks for sharing Angela. 🙂
Ogbugbu Ejiroghene
nice caption , keep up the good job
Amber Myers
These are the coolest cupcakes. I have always liked Iron Man.
Brie
Ahhhhh!!!! I absolutely love these! haha how cute the little hands are, this is great and perfect for an avengers themed get together haha
Catherine
These cupcakes are so cute and fun! Great way to celebrate the release of the new film.
SincerelySnide
My brothers would love this, I am definitely saving the recipe. The cupcakes look delicious.
Allie Celeste
OH MY LANTA!! this is such an adorable idea! Like totally geeking out about these cupcakes! youre a PRO
Sara Welch
These are super adorable! My kids love Avengers; these would be great for an Avenger themed party too!
Beth Pierce
What fun treats! You could even mold the hand into a baseball mit for a sport themed party or for after a game!
Tara Pittman
Such cool looking cupcakes. I love how you made the red hand.
Natalia
I love these cupcakes, they look so fun! I think it would be a great idea to prepare them for some b’day party for kids! 🙂
Yeah Lifestyle
Oh my, these cupcakes are so cool! I can’t wait for Endgame to be released, it looks like it is going to be an amazing film.
Michael
Too cute to miss out. Excited for the movie so lets dig into these cupcakes first. Good job.
Nicole Anderson | Camping for Women
Love this! Aside from looking yummy, the fact that it has and superhero theme means I will be more likely to engage my niece and nephew in making these as a fun activity when they next visit.
Lydia smith
So beautiful and I love the theme.
Danielle Wolter
these are so cute! great for a kids bday party (or even adults lol)!
Anne Wright
this is awesome girl! how creative! save me some please! haha
Patricia-Ann Que
how fun is this! i can easily see this as a hit in children’s party!
Kita Roberts
OMG these are adorable! I know a little girl who is going to want these on her birthday!
Janay
First those cupcakes look so adorable I wouldn’t even want to eat them! I would just want to take pictures! Honestly these cupcakes would be so cute at my son’s next party!
Alexandra Cook
OMG, Can I just say, I can’t help but drool over the picture! Who would not love to taste this! I’ll be printing out your recipe so I can try making this out over the weekends.
Shannon gurnee
These cupcakes turned out so dang cute! I would love to make these for our kids!
Va Anne Rome
Wow, I have never tried this super cute iron-man cupcake recipe looks really delicious and easy. I will try to make this for my kids, thanks for sharing!
Anonymous
Wow, these cupcakes looks really delicious and honestly, they are two cute for me to eat. I will definitely make these cupcakes for my kids and I am sure they will love it too!
Gervin Khan
Wow, these cupcakes looks really delicious and honestly, they are two cute for me to eat. I will definitely make these cupcakes for my kids and I am sure they will love it too!
Jasmine M
These Iron Man cupcakes are so cute! I am so excited to see Endgame. I need to make some of these cupcakes as I watch the Avengers win the war against Thanos!!
Becca Wilson
These cupcakes are so adorable! My son would absolutely love these as well as my husband. We can not wait to see this movie.
Emmeline
Oh these are so cute!! Not a big Avengers fan but I might become one because of these 😉
Maartje van Sandwijk
These look amazing! <3_,<3
Rebecca Sanchez
Such a fun and a cute idea. This is too cute to eat. My kids would probably dig this.
Gaica
I love finding a new recipe to try. I’m always so scared I am going to mess it up somehow. This looks easy enough for me though. Thanks!
Geraline Batarra
Wow.. This cupcakes are so cute..! I love the colors..! These color combinations will look good for kid’s party and even weddings..?
Riana
These look so great! I can never get my frosting to look so clean! I guess I should practice more.
Sophia
Omg these are the cutest things ever! I can’t wait to re-create them!!
Sue-Tanya Mchorgh
These Avengers inspired cupcakes are the cutest. I love everything about it. I bet it’s tasty too.
Erica ~ Erica Ever After
I am a big Marvel fan, like really who isn’t, I would love these cupcakes! Can’t wait for Endgame to come out!!
Emily
Those are just the cutest little cupcakes! I can’t wait for the film to come out, and this would be great for a viewing party!
Mimi
This is a cute simple recipe! I love that its easy enough to skip on the baker making party cupcakes yourself
Brittany Charnley
OK, Wait….WHAT!?! These are so rad!!!!! You are so creative! I’d love to try this recipe.
Britney
Oh my gosh! These are so adorable! I definitely need to make these for my oldest son when the movie comes out.
Dana Brillante-Peller
Trying these for our boy’s birthday! He’s hitting his teens soon and we can’t wait to host his friends.
Ruth I
This is the cutest Avengers cupcakes! I love the color and the design.
Sincerely Miss J
Omg, these cupcakes are so cute. Great job. Loved the Avengers movie.
Mommy Peach
These are just the cutest cupcakes!!!!
Katherine Rose Rivera
Wow! uYou know how to bake?! I envy you 🙂 This one looks yummy and cute!
Ellie Plummer
Omg these are so cute! You are really talented, I would totally pay for these cupcakes
Alexandra Cook
I am in love with these cupcakes. Iron Man has always been my favorite!
Kara
Definitely going to make these for my son’s birthday!!
HolyVeggies
these are cutest cupcakes I’ve ever seen. They are so well done!
Kiwi
Angela this is brillant! I love these and this makes me excited for the Avengers End Game!