Don’t get me wrong, you can’t beat a good dollop of sprinkles, but sometimes it’s nice to do something a little different. Hiding in my drawer of sugar craft bits and pieces, I stumbled across a bikini mould that I hadn’t used in ages. This, I thought, would be the perfect cake topper for the cupcakes for my mum’s birthday.

The knack of using these moulds is to make sure you get a decent covering of icing sugar or cornflour right into the nooks and crannies of the mould and making sure your sugarpaste hasn’t been handled too much other wise you risk getting part of it stuck in the mould. Once they were free of the mould I then left for about 20 minutes just to firm up before placing on the cupcakes.

I can’t remember where the bikini moulds came from, but here’s a cheeky selection

Happy Birthday mould TheVanillaValley £6.95 plus shipping
Lips mould home sale_sky on Ebay £2.42
Wonder Woman mould WeLOVE3dprinting on Etsy £4.50
Skulls ArtycoUK on Etsy £7.50 (Sugar Skull) & £17.95 (skull)
Gamer mould The Craft Company £19.06 plus shipping
Cherries Kawaiikitchen on Etsy £4.21 plus shipping
Shoes TheVanillaValley £8.35 plus shipping