Well, as you may or may not know I love gnomes! I think they are just cute, whimsical, funny and kitsch. While searching for a particular cupcake item, I went to one of my favorite sites, "Bake It Pretty", it has an array of goodies and lots of those hard to find retro/vintage looking cupcake picks. They were established before "Layer Cake". Although, they have some product cross over, I think each have their own unique qualities.I started going through their cookie cutter section while I was there and came across this guy! I thought he was too cute for words. He would be adorable iced with a little red or blue hat. Maybe even a little beard piped on with a small star tip.
When I was in high school, our local baking supply store was holding a Wilton Cake Decorating course and being the nerd that I am, I set aside some babysitting money and my mom let me sign up!
I love to bake and cook and I thought this would be a way to expand on that. I had so much fun, making roses, learning how to make the clown bodies to stick the clown head pick in for cupcakes or cakes, and best of all, you got to take home your finished products and eat them, now that alone was worth it for me, a guaranteed chance to have scrumptious cake once a week with that heavenly "wedding cake" icing, mmm!
You can buy him on this own or in an adorable "Pretty Magical Forest" set. Which gives you a really nice shaped mushroom that you could easily decorate to go along with him. He will need a place to sit on and rest of course!
This little gnome was too cute not to share and so sweetly photographed against the yellow gingham, I felt something needed to be said about this little character. If looking at these sites doesn't make you want to run out and start whipping up cupcakes with the cutest toppers to put on them, I don't know what will!
(All Images from "Bake it Pretty" website)
