Ash from Butterfly Food made these flag cupcake toppers for Valentine’s Day. I like how simple and versatile these toppers are. All you need are bamboo skewers, cardstock, glue and of course, cupcakes. Choosing different colored cardstock allows you to customize these toppers for any occasion. I also really like that she made the skewers different sizes making it more visually appealing.
Gorgeous pail of roses by Cassie's Cakes
Well then why not give a bucket of cupcake roses? Not only do they look beautiful, but they have one thing that roses don’t! They taste fantastic too!
Many people want to know how to create this rose shape, and it is actually easier than you would think. All you need is the right nozzle tip and a dozen cupcakes to practice on! So while you are baking your practice cupcakes, check out this video from Gabrielle Feuersinger, owner of San Francisco’s Cake Coquette here at Chow.com
Now Gabrielle uses a pastry nail to get that PERFECT finish, but if you don’t have one, you can apply the technique directly onto the cupcake!
A while ago I brought you some fantastic Angry Bird cupcakes! These fondant toppers were amazing, but today I have found an equally great version of Angry Birds! Check out this extravagant cupcake cake featuring those Angry Birds in action! These are from Madame Patti-Cakes, and completely rock!
There are plenty of close up images of the pigs and the birds on Madame Patti-Kake’s Flickr account here, but it is this photo which I love best, with pigs balancing on cupcake towers and yes, that is a bird flying towards them!
If only I was better at the game!
Do you like to decorate cupcakes? Well, maybe you should enter the Jelly Belly Cupcake Challenge! All you have to do is use Jelly Belly’s in your cupcake decoration and submit a photo to their website. The winner will receive $10,000! Click here for all the details.
Here are a couple of my favorites:
Do you subscribe to Hello Cupcake, What’s Newsletter? If you don’t, you might want to consider it. The authors of two great cupcake books, Hello Cupcake! and What’s New, Cupcake? have an online newsletter where they send emails once a month; Which is nice because you are not overwhelmed with emails. Each month’s email contains a recipe and decorating instructions for cupcakes that fit that month’s major holiday or major event (January was Superbowl cupcakes). This month’s Blarney Stone Cupcakes recipe ties into St. Patrick’s Day. I love that everything on the cupcakes are edible, including the Blarney stones which are breakfast treats and shamrocks which are rolled spearmint. Below you will find the recipe for the cupcakes but for more tips on how to roll the shamrocks, you’ll have to look at the technique of the month page.
DIY cupcake toppers seem to be everywhere! Here’s a cute free printable Saint Patrick’s Day cupcake toppers that TomKat Studio blogged last year; of course it could be used this year! To download the toppers, which include three other images, head over to TomKat Studio’s blog. Be sure to look around their site while you’re there, they have lots of other cupcake related freebies!
Some people look down on cupcakes that are quick and easy to make, but often, the effort of designing a simple fondant decoration can be very rewarding. As you may know I am in search of cupcakes for my daughter’s school fete which I can whip up in a jiffy. For these, I want to make an impact to get the highest price possible, but don’t want to spend 5 years in the kitchen! So on seeing these frog in the pond cupcakes I know I have found a winner.
These frogs are created and designed by Wendy’s Whimsies and are cute, plus I can make them even simpler! We have a ton of smarties left over from a birthday party so I will just make pipe a dot of icing onto each smartie to make the eyes!
If you have any great ideas let me know!!
Last summer I followed Once Wed’s directions to create flower fabric garland. Had I been in cupcake fan mode I would have thought to turn the fabric flowers into cupcake toppers! This is exactly what Paiges of Style decided to do, using the same Once Wed idea she created fabric flower cupcake toppers. These toppers are great because you can customize them to match any color scheme or use up scraps of fabric you have lying around. On her website Paige has great instructions with pictures to help you along the way.
I love these Mickey Mouse Cupcakes that Sweet Tooth replicated from a flickr photo. I actually like Sweet Tooth’s version, which has no fondant better because while I like the look of fondant I think Oreo’s taste better! These cupcakes are actually really easy since Mickey’s bottom shorts consist of the red cupcake liner with two white circles glued on. Click on “continue reading” for the rest of the instructions.
The Bankery is a full service bakery located in an old bank — 0ld as in 1864 old! — in historic downtown Skowhegan, Maine. I’ve often dropped in for a tasty treat, and they’ve often offered cupcakes. But today’s cupcake offerings were just so cute, I had to share them with you. These cupcakes were decorated to look like full-size cakes. Such a simple idea, I can’t believe I’ve never thought of it. You can imagine what this did to the frosting-to-cake ratio! Since the cupcakes were also cream-filled, they were almost too sweet. (But notice I only say almost, as I managed to eat mine up just the same.)
Sprinkles, jimmys, or shots, no matter what you call them, they all mean the same thing, a sugary sweet cupcake topping. I have always wondered how you make sprinkles and now you can make your own! Brave Tart originally made the sprinkles then Faith Durand blogger for The Kitchn gave them a try documenting her results. I love that you can make any color you want and any size too. And for those health conscious cupcake eaters out there, this allows you to control everything that goes into and onto your cupcakes! Click continue reading for the instructions.
Chef Resource offers this Chicago Metallic Cupcake Plunger for $4.95. Once you remove the center of your cupcakes, you use the plunger to fill them with frosting, fruit, or anything your imagination can think of!
Happy Valentine’s Day everyone! If you’re still looking for a cupcake idea to bake for this evening or maybe after school, here’s one more idea for you! I originally saw these semi-homemade red velvet cupcakes with hearts cut out of them on Two Tiny Kitchens. The cupcake and frosting recipe is posted there along with the instructions for how to make the heart shaped cut out. One important tip she shared for the heart cutout is to fill the cupcake molds all the way to the top of the liners! Happy baking!
A few weeks ago while looking at Simple Song I noticed the cupcake image shown above. I loved the Pom Pom heart toppers and of course checked out Hank and Hunt’s Etsy page. For $10 you could order a set of six toppers that measure 1.5” by 2” each. This weekend while looking around online I noticed that Jenny from Hank and Hunt was a guest blogger on The Sweetest Occasion and shared a DIY tutorial for how to make the pom pom heart cupcake toppers! Its obviously too late to order the set from their Etsy page and receive them in time for Valentine’s Day tomorrow, but it’s not to late to make your own! Check out the original post for all the DIY instructions!
Just found these adorable bunny cupcakes on Joanna Si’s Flickr stream. Are they cute or what? And I am one of coconut’s biggest fans!
Amanda and Blue Paperie
Amanda Parker and Family
The Gypsy Factory
I’m a huge fan of cupcake toppers since they are quick and easy cupcake decorations that take a simple frosted cupcake and transform it into a beautifully festive cupcake. Here are six different free printable cupcake toppers that I have found. Click on the images to be taken to the respective websites where you can download the pdf files.
Country Living
Love2Create
Penny Candy Studio
At Christmas time, we brought you gorgeous photos of Keira’s cupcakes. Now here she is again with Valentine’s Day cupcakes that are too beautiful to eat.
Lovely ATC reader Jessica just sent us pictures of her Superbowl cupcakes! The first are vanilla cake, filled with chocolate chip cookie dough and topped with vanilla frosting. The second are chocolate cake filled with chocolate ganache and topped with chocolate frosting. Yum! Thanks for sharing, Jessica!
This is truly hilarious, and ATC thanks Alison of AliCakes for sharing them with us. Asked to bake for a “swim” themed baby shower, Alison got creative (and a little crazy). The cupcakes are rated G, but the cake? Adults only.
I just found these at 
One India Living, and couldn’t believe how fast and simple they are to make! No fondant needed, just unwrap a bite size candy bar, and “insert” it into cupcake. Then frost around the candy bar. You an also use frosting to stick facial features to the candy bar. These cupcake artists used jelly beans for eyes and nose, and m&m’s for ears and stache, but you use just about anything. A crushed Oreo serves as “dirt” from the groundhog’s hole. Too cute!
Happy Groundhog Day! Enjoy the rest of winter, ahem, I mean, spring!
You may remember last week I introduced you to ATC sponsor Kimber Cakeware. They specialize in creating unique products that make baking easy and fun. Check out their Batter Babies and the fabulous cupcakes they can help you make:
The Batter Babies are quite simple to use, just follow these steps:
You can make cupcakes that are two different colors (think amazing red and green Christmas cupcakes) or 2 flavors (maybe a chocolate and a peanut butter dou!). I tried these out last week and I have to say that they really are that easy and they really do make great cupcakes.
This week, five ATC fans will get the chance to win a set of Batter Babies. Yes, we will have 5 winners this week! To enter, click on the comment area below and tell us what kind of cupcakes you would make first if you won the Batter Babies. Winners will be chosen on Monday, February 8th. Thanks to Kimber Cakeware for sponsoring this amazing giveaway!
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Check out this new product from All Things Cupcake sponsor Kimber Cakeware. It’s Batter Babies! Bake one of a kind cupcakes containing two flavors (or colors). Batter Babies fit most standard size cupcake pans and cups.
The Batter Babies are quite simple to use, just follow these steps:
1.Simply place the Batter Babies in individual cups
2.Pour the two separate batters into each cup
3.Remove Batter Babies before baking
How fabulous are these?
Prior to reading Kitchen Contessa’s blog post I’ve never heard of red velvet cupcakes being called devil’s food cupcakes.
I know I love red velvet cupcakes so I’m sure I’ll enjoy trying her Red Velvet Devil’s Food Cupcake recipe. I especially like the fun decorating, dipping the frosted cupcakes in melted colored chocolate to transform the cupcakes into red devils!
One of the most popular apps for the iphone or the ipad is Angry Birds, so you know, it was only a limited time before someone came up with awesome cupcake toppers! In this case it is the Artisan Cake Company who have an Etsy shop and sell these little guys so that you can top your own cupcakes!
The photo below is of all the angry birds characters, which is fantastic, but I really love the pigs here to the right. They are so cute, except for when you are playing and you cannot pass a level, then their cheeky grin makes me angry!
In September when I ate at The Culinary Institue of America at Greystone in California our butter came with a ticing on top. Ticings are thing sheets of edible icing that have no flavor because they take on the flavor of the food the are applied to. Ticings are a great way to quickly and easily decorate cupcakes, cakes, and cookies since you can add images or text to your baked good by simply peeling the ticing off the backing sheet and applying it to frosting.
These edible icing prints are a great way to decorate cupcakes! They have a crisp, professional look to them but are actually simple. As an added bonus they are made with food grade ink and gluten free which means you don’t have to worry about food allergies. Additionally they last for up to six months when stored properly which gives you have a decent amount of time to use them.
