I had a set of patriotic themed faux cupcakes that I wanted to change into a more everyday look. Read on to see how a little paint made it work:
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Here are the cupcakes as they looked before. They are really pretty, but I wanted to be able to use them for more than a couple holidays each year.
(These cupcakes were purchased from Dezicakes)
I pulled out some acrylic paint in a couple of chocolate colors to get started.
Using a brush I painted over the foam as well as I could, but you can still some blue here and there. I also messed up a bit and got brown on the part that I wanted to leave white.
To fix the mistakes I grabbed some brown puffy paint and used it to add 'chocolate' drips over the imperfections.
It worked really well!
Here are the cupcakes now, all chocolatey and ready for any occasion!
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I hope you enjoyed this how-to post, thanks for stopping by!
-Jennifer
© Studio 27 by Jennifer Adams 2026
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