It is holiday party time at the daycare again. Time to conjure up a colorful and exciting cupcake design for the 3 year olds. I scoured the internet for inspiration and added a bit of my own creativity (and pretty much winged it)…and voila. Sparkly cupcakes with a variety of fun holiday decorations. Most of … Read more
I saw these baby shower cupcakes in the Wilton 2006 yearbook and thought it would be a great cake for an upcoming baby shower. I bought the pre-colored pastel rolled fondant pack to save time for the blankets but still needed a small batch of skin tone for the babies’ heads and bodies. I used … Read more
Bake per box instructions. (I used white cake mix and stirred in four tablespoons of red/white/blue decorating sprinkles as cup cake decorations.) Make butter cream icing and tint 1/3 royal blue/, 1/3 white, and 1/3 red. Using decorator # 33, pull out blue “fireworks” around outside edge. Then do a circle of white. Finish with … Read more
My daughter loves animals, so for her 2nd birthday I decided to go with a Barnyard theme. I made a Cow cake and farm animal cupcakes – chicks, pigs and sheep. To make these cute cupcakes, make several regular size and several mini cupcakes. Separate the icing and dye some pink and some yellow. Frost … Read more
These are Diego and Dora cupcakes that I made for my co-worker’s daughter’s party. The theme is apparent but she wanted both Dora and Diego (Dora for the girls and Diego for the boys). The hair for both characters was made from regular chocolate that I melted and created on parchment paper (excuse the Diego … Read more
I made Halloween cupcakes like normal and iced them green. Then the fun started. I made black icing (this took a bit!) and used a star tip to create the hair. I used a round tip for the eyes and mouth. Same round tip for the fangs just used white icing.I got this idea off … Read more
I baked the Monkey Birthday Cupcakes the night before (from a box of course) and decorated them while my almost 1-yr old and 3-yr old’s napped. I had planned to use M&M’s for eyes but apparently had eaten them all so I scrounged around and found Jelly Bellies and leftover Valentine’s Day candy hearts. I … Read more
These Monkey Birthday Cupcakes were for my son’s first birthday party to go with a monkey cake I made. The cupcakes are made with a regular chocolate cake mix. Then I put a regular Nilla wafer for the mouth area secured with a dollop of buttercream. Then I cut a mini Nilla wafer in half … Read more
Technically these bugs should be spider cupcakes with eight legs but we ran a bit short on legs! The legs were red string candy. We found it easiest to use a skewer to first make the hole before inserting the string. We used chocolate cupcakes covered in chocolate frosting and brown sprinkles. The eyes were … Read more
My son was turning one and even though I’m not a big baker/cook, I really wanted to be able to say I made him his first cake. After thinking more on it and doing some research I found some examples of some really cute Monkey Birthday Cupcakes (from this site actually) and I just knew … Read more
I made these thanksgiving cupcakes for my daughter to share with her class at school for Thanksgiving. Not too hard to make but they are a bit time consuming. You can choose any cake flavor and frosting you like. The cookies used are Nutter Butters. Mini chocolate chips for the eyes and fruit leather for … Read more
This is a Monkey Cupcake Birthday Cake that I made for my son;s 1st birthday party, which was monkey themed. The cupcakes are just made from a box of banana supreme cake mix and the icing is just a store bought chocolate icing. The cake used 26 cupcakes and two tubs of icing. The banana … Read more