Ideas for Cute Cupcakes
5 Easy Cupcake Decorating Ideas

Cute cupcakes can bring smiles and happiness to the faces of the people who receive them. Cupcakes can be a fun and great treat or any occasion and there are very few people who don't like cupcakes.

You have virtually and endless supply of cupcake recipes available to you online as well as in books all with different cupcake recipes so that you can make many great tasting cupcake flavors.

You can never go wrong with the old favorites like a good chocolate cupcake recipe or the time honored vanilla cupcake recipe you might even like experiment with a gourmet cupcake recipe or two.

Use cupcake frosting or icings as a base on which you will decorate your cute cupcakes. The way that you apply cupcake frosting and icing will usually influence how you are going to decorate it.

You can create many different looks by the way the frosting is applied to a cupcake, you can create a fun relaxed look by piping a large loose swirl or even spread neatly over the top of your cupcake with a palette knife which can be the base for decorating cupcakes for kids.

You can use rolled fondant icing to create a more formal and elegant look which is perfect for cup cake wedding cakes, bridal shower cupcakes and other special occasions.

Or how about combing the cupcake frosting with fondant icing decorations which will give you even more options for your cupcake decorations.

Cute Ideas For Decorating Cupcakes

Birthday Cupcakes

Cupcakes for Kids

Birthdays have always been celebrated with a cake so why not steer away from tradition and have birthday cupcakes. They are easy and fun to decorate in many cute ways and this can be the perfect activity for kids to do.

Kids just love to create and what better way than cupcake decorating, all you need to do is bake cupcakes, provide different colored frostings and a variety of lollies, candies and other sweets and let them make their own cute cupcake creations.

If the kids are really young you may like to give them a helping hand by piping or spreading the frosting on the cupcakes for them before time.

Fun Cupcake Ideas

Fun Smiley Cupcakes

Make these fun and adorable cute cupcakes with smiley faces on them. Use brightly colored frostings and decorate with happy faces. You can easily make your own smiley cupcake decorations.

Smiley Faces Fun Cupcakes

You will need some rolled fondant icing, bright coloring pastes in your color choice and a black edible food pen.

Roll out your colored fondant thinly then cut out circles using a circle cutter, place these aside and allow to dry then using the edible food pen add the details of the eyes and big smiley mouth.

 

Cute Reindeer Christmas Cupcakes

I just love these cute reindeer cupcakes. They are very simple to make.

You will need some piping bags fitted with round piping nozzles. If you don't have piping bags you can make your own paper piping bag and cut the tip of to create a reasonable sized hole for piping.

Fun Christmas Cupcake Ideas

First you will need to pipe some green or red cupcake frosting onto the top of the cupcake use a medium sized nozzle for this.

In another piping bag fitted with a slightly smaller round nozzle pipe a little brown frosting, start by placeing the nozzle onto the cupcake frosting then apply a little press and allow the brown frosting to build up little (this will create the head), then while easing off the piping pressure pull away to create the reindeer snout.

Use two pretzels to create its antlers (as shown in the image), then with a very small round tip nozzle you can pipe some black eyes and a red nose. If you don't want to pipe in the details you could use small lollies like mini M&M's or Skittles.

 

Cupcake Wedding Cakes

If you are looking for some easy cute cupcakes for your cup cake wedding cakes then here are two very simple ideas that you can do with very little effort.

Pink Cupcakes

Pink and Silver Cup Cake Wedding Cakes

You could use a vanilla cupcake recipe for this or another recipe that will give you a light colored looking cupcake.

As you can see from the image above the cupcake has a nice rounded top to achieve this you will need to fill your cupcake papers with the cake mixture about 3/4 full before baking.

To decorate the cupcakes spread a layer of cupcake frosting over the cupcake tops, making sure that the frosting goes right to the edges.

Place some pink colored sprinkles into a small bowl and then gently dip and roll your frosted cupcake top into it.

Next decoratively add silver cachous to the cake, you might find it easier to place the cachous onto the cupcakes using tweezers.

 

Red Velvet Wedding Cupcakes

Red Velvet Cupcakes

These cute looking red velvet cupcakes are simple to decorate. The cute cupcakes in the image above have been baked in plain white cupcake papers which allows the red from the cupcakes to come through.

To decorate, fill a piping bag with a cupcake frosting flavor of your choice (a cream cheese frosting would be nice) and pipe decoratively on the cupcake with a plain round nozzle or even a star shaped nozzle.

For the red "sprinkles" you could use red sanding sugar - you can make this yourself using a coarse white sugar if you can't find it simply use what you already have, place some into a zip lock bag and add powdered red food coloring to it and shake until combined, add more of the coloring until you get the shade you want.

Alternatively you could bake a few extra red velvet cupcakes and break into small crumbs and sprinkle over the top.