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
For my son’s daycare class, the Monkeys, I decided what better birthday theme to go with than – monkeys. My son loves them, and what 3 year old doesn’t? I scanned monkey cupcake images on the internet and chose to use Wilton’s idea as my guide. I printed and cut out the template shapes on … Read more
I got this idea from the other monkey cupcakes on this site. To make it my own I made a few little changes. I used M&M’s for the eyes, cause who doesn’t like M&M’s and they add a little bit more color. I used vanilla wafers for the nose/mouth piece. I cut the tip off … Read more
I like to bake but do not know how to decorate. I tried decorating for the first time when I made a pull-apart tortoise cake for my son’s 2nd birthday last year, and I must say it turned out quite nicely but the glaze icing was way to sweet (I had no idea about the … Read more
My daughter’s First Grade class was learning about frogs the last half of the year. I thought what a cute way to end the year with Lilly Pad and Frog Cupcakes. These are very simple as you can see! Prepare the cupcake using the directions on the box. I colored the frosting blue to look … 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