Recipe
1 Cup Foaming Bath Whip
1 Cup Clear Melt and Pour
1 Tablespoon Liquid Glycerin
3 Tablespoons Meringue Powder
7 ml Clementine Cupcake Fragrance Oil
We tested and tried many recipes before settling on this one. Here are a few key characteristics of this recipe:
- Hardens up and could easily be packaged.
- Easy to frost the cupcakes.
- Have roughly 5 minutes to work with it
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ONE: Add the foaming bath whip, Meringue Powder, Liquid Glycerin and Clementine Cupcake Fragrance Oil to your mixing bowl. Hand stir with a spatula before turning on the mixer (or you’ll have meringue powder everywhere). Then turn the mixer on medium and mix for about 1 minute.
Note: Clementine Cupcake Fragrance Oil will naturally discolor the frosting to a light orange hue after 1-2 days.
TWO: While the mixer is still mixing. Melt one cup of clear melt and pour soap base in the microwave. Once it has cooled down to 150 or 160 degrees, slowly add it to the mixing bowl. Mix for another 1-2 minutes on high.
THREE: Test the consistency of the mixture to make sure that it’s stiff enough to form peaks in the bowl.
FOUR: Have soap already made and ready to frost. You’ll have about 5 minutes to work with the frosting before it starts to harden up into a gunky mess making it very hard to pipe.
Do you like the soap cupcakes we made? We used Shaving Melt and Pour with a combination of Bakery Beige and Butter Cream Yellow from the Sweet Treats Colorant set and scented them with Vanilla Select. The mold on the left is the Silicone Cupcake Mold. The mold on the right is the Scalloped Round.
FIVE: Put the frosting in your piping bag and pipe away!
Alternative: OR frost the cupcake like I normally do at home with real cupcakes…by glopping it on. It looks surprisingly cute!
SIX: Add your soapylove sprinkles (or any color of jojoba beads) and let the frosting harden up for 2-3 days. The longer you let it sit out, the harder it will get.
Note: Once the frosting hardens up it will still have a spongy texture. It will never get rock solid. However, it’s hard enough to package and ship if it’s packaged properly. If you’re looking for a frosting to turn rock solid, you’ll need a different recipe. Try some of our other tutorials: Â Cold Process Cupcakes or Cupcake Bath Bombs.
This is what the frosting looked like in our testing phases. It took us a couple of tries to get the perfect combination. Recipe #1 on the left. Recipe #2 top, middle. Recipe #3 on the right. Why yes, those are large slabs of soap.
Alternative Recipes
Recipe #2
Ingredients: 1 Cup Foaming Bath Whip and 6 ml Fragrance Oil
Directions: Whip the ingredients together in the mixer until it’s light, fluffy and forms peaks. Frost your soapy cupcakes just like in recipe #1.
Notes: This frosting does not harden. It’s the softest recipe of the three. This is also the easiest recipe with the longest working time, so it’s great for beginners.
Recipe #3
Ingredients: 1 Cup Foaming Bath Whip, 4 Tablespoons Meringue Powder, 1 Tablespoon Liquid Glycerin, 7 ml Fragrance Oil
Directions: Whip the ingredients together in the mixer until it’s light, fluffy and forms peaks. Frost your soapy cupcakes just like in recipe #1.
Notes: This is the thickest of the three recipes and a little more difficult to pipe. The trade off is that it’s the hardest of the three recipes after letting it dry for 2-3 days.
