How to Make Zebra Stripes on Cupcakes Using White Icing
- 1). Mix a small bowl of chocolate frosting with black food coloring to make the base coat of the zebra print.
- 2). Ice half a dozen or so of your cupcakes with the black frosting. Put it on as flat and even as you can. Some imperfections can be difficult to remove, and you can make the problem worse in your attempts to fix it. Rather than poke and scrape at the frosting on the cake, dip a large, flat metal spatula or wide knife in very hot water and run it across the surface of the frosting to smooth it out. Leave the cupcakes until the black frosting is dry and set.
- 3). Roll out a thin piece of white fondant icing and cut out the white stripes to go on top of the black base.
- 4). Place the white fondant icing on the cupcake. Zebra stripes are not regular, and while some will be roughly the same width all the way across the cake, others will narrow, taper and come to an end, while others will split into two and continue. A white line that has tapered and come to an end will fit in between the v-shape made where another white line has split into two. There will always be black in between the white lines.
- 5). Run the very hot, wet spatula or knife quickly across the top of each cake to smooth the edges of the white icing down to the level of the black, giving the stripes a seamless look.
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