Love and Lots of Sugar

My artistic abilities have always been pretty much limited to tracing.  That’s why I like frozen buttercream transfers.  Print out a picture (mirrored), tape it to a cutting board, tape wax paper over it, and start tracing with thinned-out buttercream, freezing between each color.  Then remove it from the cutting board, flip it over onto the cake, peel off the wax paper, et voila!  In this case I added some grass-tip “fur” to Elmo’s face.  It’s so simple.  All it takes is a (reasonably) steady hand and some forethought (it takes some planning ahead to make sure you have enough time to thoroughly freeze it).

(Pro-tip: whenever you have leftovers of ANY color of buttercream, mix them all together into a container that you keep in your freezer.  When you need black, thaw it out and add black food coloring - the mushy brownish-gray color is a much better starting point than pure white frosting.  The more you know…)