Saint Patrick’s Day Cupcakes, Pot of Gold and Leprechaun Hat

It is time for us to have fun and good fortune with a special St. Patty’s Day pot of gold and leprechaun hat created with modeling chocolate tutorial.
Dating back to Medieval times, in Europe , the legend of the pot of gold is enthusiastically told by the Irish. The folklore claims fairies put the gold at the end of a rainbow and commandeered the leprechauns to guard it. This folklore has become an intricate symbolism of St….

With the exception of black colour it is perfectly fine to use regular food paste for the modeling chocolate. If you want to add colour to the embellishments you need to create a paint with petal dust and Evercler (or lemon extract). Dusting the modeling does not work well!

The Pond and Grass:
Cover the cupcakes, and allow the marzipan to dry. Color your piping gel with blue food paste and whip vigorously, place the colored piping gel in a piping bag fitted with a #2 piping tip/tube, outline a body of water with light blue royal icing, pipe the dam with your blue colored piping gel, and use a toothpick to spread to the edge (this will also create ripples for a water effect). With a piping bag fitted with a grass piping tip/tube pipe the grass from the outline of water to the edge of the cupcake.

The Pots of Gold:
Color the dark modeling chocolate with confectionary black candy color roll a “jacks bouncing ball” size ball smooth, hollow the ball with a ball tool, flatten the hollowed ball, and shape the sides. Add a flatten round of dark modeling chocolate disks to the top. Using a clay gun and round shape disk create the rim of the pot, and attach the rim with edible glue (sugar water, egg white, or store bought).
Roll your white modeling, colored yellow, to about a # 3 on a pasta machine (coins are thick). Use a #7 piping tip/tube, to create little round disks and paint the little disks with a mixture of gold lustre dust and Everclear.

The LeprechaunHats:
Color some of the white modeling chocolate with 1/4-toothpick moss green to 1/8-toothpickelectric green.

Assembly:
Using melted white chocolate pipe a drop for each coin, attach the coins to the pots, now apply white melted chocolate to a hat, place on top of the coins, spray with freeze spray. Decide where you want to place the pots of gold and attach with the melted chocolate and freeze spray the melted chocolate. Place the flower blossoms around the cupcakes.

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