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Hello Kitty Cupcake Wrappers by Susan

Click to enlarge image. I have such a fun project to share with you today, Hello Kitty Cupcake Wrappers! Kitty looks “purrrfect” sitting atop the cupcake stand holding chocolate cupcakes with hot pink frosting! You will be amazed at how easy these cupcake wrappers are to make. You only need two Cricut cartridges, Hello Kitty Greetings and Plantin Schoolbook, and there are only two pages to the cut file!!! And as if that were not easy enough, you only need three colors of cardstock! The cut file cuts two cupcake wrappers at a time. You will need to cut each page six times to cover one dozen cupcakes. How easy is that??? Page on of the cut file contains the cuts for two base wrappers. You will need a 12 x 10 – inch piece of white cardstock for each set of wrappers. Click to enlarge image. Page two of the cut file contains the cuts for the Kitty parts. You will need three pieces of cardstock to cut this page: a 12 x 5 – inch piece of black cardstock for the outline cut, a 9 x 4 – inch piece of white cardstock for Kitty’s faces, and a 12 x 2 – inch piece of cardstock for Kitty’s hair bows. You may want to consider having Kitty’s hair bows match your frosting color! Click to enlarge image. The wrappers assembly is very easy. Begin by adding Kitty’s face, hair bow, and outline cuts to the base wrapper. I used my Xyron sticker machine to apply adhesive to the cuts from page two. Affix the face cuts in place on each of the eight base cuts. Using the black eyes and nose from the outline cut, affix the eyes and noses to the face. Add the hair bow pieces and then add the outline cut over each Kitty face. Click to enlarge image. Once the faces are complete, fold each of the Kitty faces, face out, toward the center of the wrapper. Apply strong, permanent adhesive to the OUTSIDE of the tabs on the base wrapper. Fold the tabs in and attach the tab to the back of the corresponding Kitty head. The whiskers will interweave. Add your baked cupcakes (recipe below) to the wrappers and you are all finished! Kitty looks fabulous and so will your dessert plates! Click to enlarge image. Chocolate Cupcakes 1/2 cup (50 grams) Dutch-processed cocoa powder 1 cup (240 ml) boiling hot water 1 1/3 cups (175 grams) all purpose flour 2 teaspoons baking powder 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/2 cup (113 grams) unsalted butter, room temperature 1 cup (200 grams) granulated white sugar 2 large eggs 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Lightly butter, or line 16 muffin cups with paper liners. In a small bowl stir until smooth the boiling hot water and the cocoa powder. Let cool to room temperature. In another bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, and salt. Then in the bowl of your electric mixer, or with a hand mixer, cream the butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add the eggs, one at a time, beating until smooth. Beat in the vanilla extract. Add the flour mixture and beat only until incorporated. Then add the cooled cocoa mixture and stir until smooth. Fill each muffin cup two-thirds full with batter and bake for about 16-20 minutes or until risen, springy to the touch, and a toothpick inserted into a cupcake comes out clean. Remove from oven and place on a wire rack to cool. Once the cupcakes have completely cooled, frost with icing. Click to enlarge image. My friend Helen has a friend Alysa who asked me to make a Hello Kitty cake for a bridal shower she was planning.  I had made the same cake for my daughter's first birthday, as well as a piggy cake using the same cake pan. This time I made two layers of chocolate cake, and a strawberry whipped cream to go in between to two layers.  I've made whipped cream filling to go inside of chiffon cake in the past, but never for a more dense cake like this chocolate cake.  I had seen a recipe somewhere for stabilized whipped cream, which had dissolved gelatin added to it, so I thought I would try that to keep the whipped cream firm.  But when I tried it out, the whipped cream came out soft and gummy - perhaps I added the dissolved gelatin too soon?  So I ended up making a second batch of my regular strawberry whipped cream - hopefully it held up! After filling and stacking the two layers, I did a crumb coat of cream cheese frosting.  Then I piped the eyes, nose, bow, and whiskers.  And finally I filled in the entire face with a star tip. When Alysa came to pick up the cake, we both thought each other looked familiar - and after talking a bit, it turned out that we went to the same high school!  What a small world!