My Imperfectly Fondant Topped, Bursting With Sunshine, Lemon Cupcakes

As-Salaamu Alaykum,

My first time EVER working with fondant. Don't get me wrong I've had fondant intentions before then I always end up breaking snack size chunks off and eating straight out of the container or packet. Am I the only one that has ever done that?

It all started with sallys busting with sunshine / lemon cupcakes, seriously packed full on lemon flavour best recipe using lemons to date.

I didn't have any regular butter at home. I decreased the quantity by 20% and used ghee / clarified butter and then to make up for the lack of moisture that comes from milk fat I increased the milk quantity by 20%. The cupcakes were very soft which is good, really good but I fear I may have over whipped when adding the eggs to the batter or they were under baked somehow because some of the cupcakes came out with wrinkled tops.

The next day when i came to put on the fondant tops some of the cupcakes had already started to pull away from the wrappers which might be because of the quality of the wrapper or my butter to ghee and milk changes to the recipe.

Rolling out the fondant was pretty easy as was cutting out the circles, with the help of my son.
I was determined not to use buttercream as I didn't want to be overwhelmed by more sweetness I dabbed the fondant circle with a little water which made it sticky then I carefully placed onto cupcake and tried my best to smooth out all wrinkles / lumps using my hand.
It wasn't going to be my finest work however, this is home cooking it doesn't always look the best but the cupcakes sure taste good.
I really like these lego cupcakes  by Fatimah. She uses sugar syrup to stick fondant onto the cupcakes which is a better idea than water because I did learn fondant doesn't 'like' moisture.