Cason's Duck Cupcakes

It was my nephew Cason's first birthday! Splish splash fun pool party for all the older kids and rubber duckies for Cason!

My sister goes all out in parties. I mean seriously the girl should be a professional party planner. I remember when children birthday parties was a homemade sheet cake and a few crepe paper streamers. Well, not for my sis! I've never seen so many rubber ducks in one room! The attention to detail for this ducky theme was insane. We had handmade (purchased on ETSY) birthday banners, cut out duck confetti, a duck pinata, and a kid swag bag full of duck theme toys (duck whistles, handmade duck shape chocolate candy, she even found duck shaped crayons!) 

Birthday sign- custom made on ETSY

So I decided to jump on board with the duck theme mania. I volunteered to make the cupcakes. But I know that not just any ordinary plainly decorated cupcakes would do for this party. I had to bring out the big guns (or ducks in this case!)

My fondant ducks all in a row

So I made 30 chocolate chip and 30 vanilla cupcakes. I used a cookie cutter and cut ducks out of rolled fondant. Blue nonpareils for the eyes, and I tinted my icing blue. I made the icing choppy to look like little waves, and topped it off with white nonpareils for the "bubble" look.

I was pretty proud how they turned out. And they were just the icing on the cake (pun intended) for my nephew's rubber duck themed extravaganza!