Tasty Twinkie People

Tasty Twinkie People Twinkie Baby Twinkie Groom

Make easy and decorative Twinkie people using traditional cake decorating techniques. Not only is dressing up these snack cakes fun...you can eat all your mistakes!

Cake Decorating Tips

• Always mix enough icing of one color to avoid having to re-mix later.
• Add color gradually to icing.
• Do not fill icing bags with more than 1/2 to 3/4 cup of icing.
• Keep the top of your icing bag twisted shut as you decorate.
• Applied pressure on the icing bag determines icing flow.
• A turntable is great for reaching all sides of a cake without changing your position.
• Food coloring paste is best for tinting icing because is doesn't water down the icing like liquid food coloring does.
• The last thing you want is a soggy Twinkie!
• An angled spatula will help keep your knuckles and sleeves from touching the cake's icing.
• Purchase a wide array of icing tips so you can be imaginative with your confectionary characters.

Tasty Twinkie People

Football Player

Materials:

brown, green, and yellow icing
icing tips #10, #3, #2
brown or blue decorating gel
football icing decoration

Steps:

1. Pipe a green helmet with #10 tip.
2. Create a brown face guard with #3 lines before adding dot eyes with brown/blue gel.
3. Pipe yellow arms with #10 lines and attach Football decoration.
4. Pipe green football letters with #2 tip.

Baseball Player

Materials:

icing tips #104, #10, #2
blue & yellow icing
red & blue decorating gel
baseball mitt icing decoration

Steps:

1. Pipe blue hat bill using #104 tip and add large blue dot for cap.
2. Add #2 tip to form yellow stripes on cap.
3. Create eyes with blue gel and mouth outline with red gel.
4. Add yellow arms with tip #10 before adding Baseball Mitt deco-ration.

Santa

Materials:

icing tips #21, #10, #3, #16
red & white icing
blue decorating gel
christmas wreath icing decoration

Steps:

1. Pipe a large red pull-out star hat with tip #21.
2. Add #16 white tassel and hat trim.
3. Add eyes with blue gel dots, and a red nose with tip #3.
4. Pipe a curly white beard with tip #16.
5. Add red arms with tip #10, and white sleeve trim with tip #16. Add Wreath decoration to complete.

Baby

Materials:

white & yellow icing
icing tips #104, #3, #10, #16
blue decorating gel
baby things icing decoration
small plastic pacifier

Steps:

1. With #16 tip, pipe curly hair.
2. Using tip #104, pipe white ruffle around face.
3. With #3 tip, add white tie and bow.
4. Add dot eyes with blue gel, and push pacifier in.
5. Pipe white arms with #10 tip.
6. Add Baby Things decoration.

Bride

Materials:

yellow, red & white icing
icing tips #16, #3, #10, #103
blue decorating gel
small lace bonnet
rose bud icing decoration

Steps:

1. Pipe curly, yellow hair with icing tip #16.
2. Cut the back brim off the lace bonnet to make it lie flat. Then add bonnet to Twinkie.
3. Add dot eyes with blue gel and heart-shaped red mouth with #3 tip.
4. Pipe white arms with #10 tip, and add a white ruffled circle at the end of each arm with tip #103.
5. Add Rose Bud decoration to center.

Groom

Materials:

black icing
icing tip #10
blue & red decorating gel
small top hat and cane

Steps:

1. Pipe black icing on top to attach hat.
2. Make blue dot eyes and a red mouth from gel.
3. Pipe black arms with #10 tip, add cane.

Witch

Materials:

black & green icing
icing tips #104, #10, #3, #233
black & red decorating gel
Jack-O-Lantern icing decoration

Steps:

1. Pipe long green hair with tip #233.
2. Create the brim of the black hat with tip #104.
3. Add dot black eyes and red mouth with gel.
4. Make a green pull-out dot nose using tip #3.
5. Pipe black arms with #10 tip.
6. Add Jack-O-Lantern decoration.

Clown

Materials:

blue, orange & red icing
icing tips #16, #104, #3
small Dinky Dipper (ice cream cone) decoration

Steps:

1. Pipe orange icing on top to attach hat. Pipe blue tassel and orange dots on hat with tip #16.
2. Create blue ruffle around the hat with tip #104.
3. Add blue eyes, red nose and mouth with tip #3.
4. Pipe orange neck ruffle with tip #104.
5. Pipe red arms and buttons with tip #104.
6. Add ice cream cone decoration.

Resources
Wilton Cake Decorating 1997 Yearbook

Wilton yearbooks are usually available to order for 2-3 years.
Wilton Industries
Website: www.wilton.com

Wilton Cake Decorating supplies, catalogs, videos
Wilton yearbooks are published annually and are usually available to order for two to three years after publishing or visit www.wiltonyearbook.com.
Wilton Industries
Website: www.wilton.com
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