I can only imagine my Mother shuddering and reaching for her red pen to correct my typo in the title. So Mummy Dearest, you’ll have to forgive me for sticking true to the story and making some Winne the Pooh Hunny Cheesecake Cupcakes.
I could have made a regular honey flavoured cupcake but I felt like something a little more rich and creamy. I decided to do a variation on the pumpkin cheesecake that I made the week previously so that the colour was true to Pooh but the sweetening was done through honey instead of sugar. The choice for a cheesecake cupcake was also due to a loathing of stale or expired food (it’s a response I think to my parents having sauces in their fridge from 1984). I had 3/4 of a packet of biscuits left from the Pumpkin cheesecake as well as some Pumpkin and neither myself or husband eat biscuits much so it seemed fitting to use these up as soon as possible before staleness set in.
Winnie the Pooh was extremely hard to do, his body was fine, but his face with the upturned nose required several attempts. Indeed I had a range of different Winnie heads, some resembling pigs or dogs before I finally settled on the real Winnie. And I know, Winnie is not that orange but I was a little too eager with the red colouring and ran out of fondant. I also know that Winnie wears a red shirt but I couldn’t muster up the energy to do a red shirt on top of his body given the struggle I had with his head I talked myself into figuring the Winnie must have had some naked moments every now and then.
Winnie the Pooh Hunny Cheesecake Cupcakes
- 100g digestive biscuits
- 60g soft butter
- 250g cream cheese
- 125g pumpkin, well drained
- 3 eggs
- 100g honey
For Winnie the Pooh
- Golden yellow fondant
- Chocolate fondant (a very small amount)
1. Preheat oven to 160c fan forced. In a food processor process the biscuits and butter until the mixtures resembles wet sand. Using a spoon, press a thin layer down into patty cases.
2. Blend cream cheese and pumpkin until smooth then add eggs and honey and pulse until blended.
3. Pour into cupcake cases until a few mms below the edge. Then bake in preheated oven for 30-40 minutes. Cool and refrigerate overnight.
Meanwhile get on with the Winne the Pooh decorations
Winnie the Pooh Fondant decorations
- Golden fondant (mine was a bit too orange but I find that fondant colouring fades)
- a small amount of black or chocolate fondant for eyes, eyebrows, nose and mouth
- A chopstick with a pointy end to make ear holes
1. Make the necessary pieces, 3 balls in a graduating size, two logs: one for legs and one for arms which are smaller than the legs plus2 small balls for the ears.
2. Place the middle sized ball on top of the largest sized ball and then cut the larger log into half and place legs around bottom ball.
3. Cut smaller arm logs into two and shape into arms and place them between the two balls resting on the top of the largest ball. You can position one arm to go up a bit further.
4. Shaping the head is the hardest part. Winnie has big cheeks and a slightly upturned nose so try and shape this as best you can. I found it helped somewhat to look at 3D pictures of Winnie using google images.
5. Press the small end of a Japanese chopstick into the small ear circle and press against the back of the head.
6. Now using very, very small amounts of chocolate fondant shape eyes (Winnie has small eyes), round eyebrows and a nose. This is intricate work and easy to lose pieces and your patience so take your time.
My almost, but not really Winnies
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19 Comments | Add your own
Ha how cute
I really enjoyed reading this post. As I love winnie alot . Winnie looks nice (even naked 
Adorable! You are so creative!
How adorable! I love Pooh Bear
Although I do not know if my bears would come our nearly as good as yours did…
Adorable!!
I never would’ve thought of using digestive biscuits to make cupcakes. The spelling of hunny adds authenticity! 
so cute !
Very cool!
I know somebody who loved winnie when they were little, I’m sure they’d love this post!
You outdid yourself again (though my fave is still your Easter baskets).
I liked the expressions on the reject heads too! Shy Winnie, a perplexed Winnie and an angry Winnie up front
Winnie is absolutely adorable! And he does look hard – I won’t doubt you on that. Just gorgeous.
And the sharing of the ‘almost’ Winnie’s!!
This looks like something that would keep children busy.. “Here, have some fondant and try and make Winnie”!
Good job and presentation Lorraine!
Has your Mum seen the movie ‘The Pursuit of Happyness’?
Very cute! I like your choice of colours too – the purple and orange are very eye catching.
Hi snooky doodle-Thankyou so much! He’s not perfect but he’s my own version of Winnie
Hi Barbara-Thanks!
My husband used to love Winnie the Pooh when he was little so these were for him 
Hi ashleystravel-Thankyou! Yours could very well turn out better!
Hi flapflap-Thankyou, the digestives are just for the base
Thanks, I had to explain it to my mother 
Hi Bean Sprout-Thankyou!
Hi Cappucino-Awww perhaps you could make them one? I’m sure they’d love it!
Hi Karen-Thanks so much
Ahhh yes the infamous Easter baskets. They were so hard!
Oh my you are so right, they do hold those very expressions
Hi Cakelaw-I should’ve taken the hint when I searched for a Winnie fondant cupcake topper and couldn’t find one
Hi Maria-I thought they were quite funny and I didn’t want people thinking that it wasn’t a struggle making his head-because it was! Even my husband got fed up of my attempts and tried to make one himself-and gave up after 5 minutes of shaping
Yes true, a good tool to distract kids and help develop hand eye skills
I don’t think she has, she wouldn’t be able to get past the name I think!
Hi Y-Thankyou! Purple seemed to match him better than any other colour
These are so cute, Lorraine! You are a master of modeling!
I recognized Winnie the Pooh’s face in a heartbeat! Is he not the sweetest bear ever?!
And these cupcakes…darling. Just darling! All he needs is a tiny “hunny” jar in his lap, and he’d be good to go (all the way to my tummy)!
adorable! and now i have the theme song in my head.
Thank you for passing by my blog…and wow !i simply loved the face of the honey cheesecake winnie the pooh…it has come out so nicely.
Hi Patricia-Thanks so much! I just got some new modelling tools so hopefully anything after this will be better
Hi Sandie-Phew! Thanks for saying that. My husband thought that they looked “a bit” like Winnie
funny you say that, I considered doing a Hunny pot but just didn’t have enough fondant!
Hi grace-Haha sorry if that is a bad thing!
Hi anamika-Thanks so much, I hope I did him justice
That is absolutely amazing looking. Great job!
I love the second picture… Pooh looks wistfully into the distance whilst thinking of hunny.
(Next time you could just paint on a top with slightly diluted red food paste. That’s much les hassle than rying to become a sugarpaste fashion designer!)
Hi Jeff-Thankyou so much!
Hi Angela-Hehe yes you’re right! I’m sure he was dreaming of hunny
Ah yes very true, I should have just done that! Doh!
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