So today on EveryDay with Marcus & Lisa, I showed how to make cupcake bath bombs. They are SO cute and SOOOO easy to make. The base of these cupcakes are a bath bomb that fizzes and the top is made out of real icing that works as a sugar scrub.
Below you will see some pics of some examples....they look good enough to eat, don't they?!?!
Ingredients:
2 parts Baking Soda (regular size box - 8 oz)
1 part Citric Acid (4 oz)
Essential oils
Witch Hazel in spray bottle (mister)
Coloring is optional
Cupcake tin
Cupcake paper liners
Assorted sprinkles
Icing Recipe at bottom
***Citric Acid is available at most health food stores and cake supply stores. You will want food-safe citric acid in the powder form***
For the base of the cupcake:
Put cupcake paper liners in cupcake tin.
Put baking soda and citric acid in bowl. Work the powder with your fingers to make sure all the lumps are out. Add about 20 - 25 drops of essential oil to powder mixture. (You can do more or less if you prefer :) If you want to add color, do it now. I use gel food coloring and very little. Work that in with your fingers. Now is the fun part...while working the mixture with one hand, spritz the powder mixture with the witch hazel. I do about 3 mists then work the mixture. Repeat this step until you can squeeze the mixture in the palm of your hand and it holds together (much like pie crust dough). If you can do that, then you are ready to put it into the cupcake molds.
Put the damp powder mixture in each cupcake paper liner making sure to pack it down with each addition of more powder. Pack it until the liner is full to the rim.
Keep your cupcake bases in the tin and set aside to dry. A few hours should do but overnight won't hurt. :)
Icing Recipe:
Confectioner's sugar
Meringue Powder (found in the cake supply section at Walmart, Michael's, etc)
Warm water
Follow recipe instructions on the meringue powder for Royal Icing. Your icing should be stiff. Put in a pastry bag with a large icing tip and pipe icing onto the cupcake base. Sprinkle with decorative sprinkles of your choice.
*The sprinkles might not stick because the icing is pretty dry so mist with the witch hazel again and sprinkle again. They will stick now! Be careful not to over-mist!!
Now you have made an absolutely ADORABLE cupcake bath bomb! Make sure you tell people it is NOT edible!!! Because it does trick the eye! :)
OPTIONAL presentation:
If you would like to make some bath fizzies, then do everything the same way until you get to the putting the damp powder into the cupcake liner....INSTEAD, pack the powder into candy molds. When dry, pop them out and you have an instant bath fizz. :)
