Top o'the Mornin' to ya! Leprechaun Hat Cupcakes

We decided that just in case anyone wants to use the ideas from the blog, we should make things at least a few weeks in advance. So in honor of St. Patrick's Day we created Aerie's Lucky Leprechaun Lids. We started with a couple of different sizes of baking cups. In the largest we put only a thin layer of batter. These are what we used to make the brim of the hats. The bowl of the hat was just a slightly smaller baking cup. One piece of advice, it is best if you use a significantly smaller cup for the top than the brim.
After the baking things had cooled, we frosted all the cake parts green and stuck brim and bowl together.
The hatband we made with rolled fondant (of course) we cut strips with the pizza cutter, then hand cut the buckles and shamrocks for the top.