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High Heel Cupcakes

Stunning, clever party cupcakes assembled to look like high heel shoes using Milano cookies, wafer sticks, and stiff buttercream frosting.
Prep Time 20 minutes
Chilling Time (Mins) 30 minutes
Total Time 20 minutes
Servings: 12 cupcakes
Course: Dessert, Party Food
Cuisine: American
Calories: 420

Ingredients
  

Cupcakes & Frosting
  • 12 whole baked cupcakes in foil liners
  • 3 cups stiff buttercream frosting do not use canned
  • 1 dash pink gel food coloring optional
Shoe Components
  • 12 whole oval sandwich cookies like Milano cookies
  • 6 whole rolled wafer stick cookies like Piroulines, cut in half
  • 12 whole small icing or fondant flowers for decoration

Equipment

  • Piping bags
  • Large star piping tip
  • Small round piping tip
  • Serrated knife

Method
 

  1. Dye your stiff buttercream with pink food coloring if desired. Fill a piping bag fitted with a large star tip with the frosting. Fill a smaller piping bag with a tiny round tip with a small amount of frosting for detail work.
  2. Pipe a generous, tall swirl of frosting into the center of each baked cupcake to act as the supportive cushion.
  3. Using a serrated knife, carefully cut the rolled wafer cookies in half at a slight angle.
  4. Gently press the bottom of an oval cookie into the front of the frosting swirl. Insert the cut wafer cookie into the back of the frosting to act as the heel, supporting the oval cookie.
  5. Using the small piping bag, pipe a delicate border of frosting around the back edge of the oval cookie.
  6. Gently press a small decorative icing flower into the frosting at the 'toe' of the shoe.
  7. Immediately place the assembled cupcakes into the refrigerator for at least 30 minutes to allow the frosting to firm up and secure the cookies.

Notes

It is highly recommended to use a stiff, crusting buttercream rather than soft canned frosting so the heavy cookies do not slide off the cupcake.