Cupcakes – A New Trend
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Nowadays cupcakes come in exotic and exciting varieties and combinations of flavors. Cupcake is a new trend in desserts. You may find variety of designs and flavors of cupcakes in the cake shop. Such cupcakes attract the customers. Different cartoons and flowers are added on the cupcakes. What you think if you can make such cupcakes at home! Is it possible? Yes it is. Rather it’s very easy to make and decorate such cupcakes at home. You can design your own cupcake in different manner. You can use pictures and letters while decorating your cupcakes.
Guidelines to decorate your cupcakes
Consider the following steps while making your cupcakes:
To make your cupcake pans non sticky sprinkle oil on them. And always line the cupcake pans with paper to avoid sticking of cake during baking.
Use piping bag for frosting. This makes things easy.
Do not cool your ingredients. Also do not keep the frosting for long time.
To make sure your cupcakes are done well, you can make use of toothpick. If you find clean toothpick out, then your cupcake is ready.
Try to add fun in your decorations make your cakes interesting to your children. You can also trim your cakes to make them attractive.
You can try out different frostings like cheese cream, vanilla frosting or lemon frosting. Also you can add new colors to the frostings to make your own frosting. Cupcakes are decorated in trendy ways and they come in delicious toppings.
You can create different designs with the frosting only using pastry bag. You can make different shapes like Flowers, Leaves or many others with the frosting. You may use the frosting with different colors like rainbow colors all on one cupcake. Using a pastry bag you can make designs on the cakes like cartoons, kittens, ducks etc. You can also use the different combinations of frostings. You can use multicolored frostings like red and white for valentine cupcake or use pale colors foe shower cupcakes. You may write your own message on your cupcake.
Cupcake Decorations for occasions
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You can turn occasion from ordinary to a special one with your own ideas. You can trim the cupcakes to create shapes like alligator, bee, snowman and many others. These conventional cupcakes create a specific look fit for the special occasion. You can use little candies that makes your cupcake toppings little crunchy. You can also add cut up chocolate bars, slivered candied peel or chopped nuts to add new flavor to cupcakes. You can make your cupcakes with your own molds. You can shape your cupcakes with a cookie cutter and can add marzipan cheese shaped toppings on cake.
For the birthday parties you can decorate your cupcakes with such a new and pleasant designs like, for your little princes, decorate the cake in pink frosting with a princess face, her crown. You can sprinkle the silver balls to make feel of crown of princess. Also you can design with chocolates and vanilla frosting to give shape as puppies or kittens. The children coming to the birthday party will love such cakes and they remain in their memory.
You can use edible flowers as a topping to your cupcakes for occasions like shower or wedding. You make these cupcakes extra special for your dear ones. You can design the fondant cupcakes for a wedding occasion. For such cakes you can use flowers like Chrysanthemums, English daisy, Marigolds, Pansies, Roses or Gardenias. While adding these flowers, make sure that they are not poisonous.
For the occasion of Christmas, you can decorate cupcakes with Christmas trees & snowman. You can design the green colored Christmas tree, red colored balls and other things to make your Christmas colorful. This gives the wonderful taste to your Christmas.
Toppings on cupcake frosting
Sprinkles on a frosting create sparkling effect and gives beautiful cupcakes. You can add a little crunch to your cupcake by sprinkling crushed up cereal over the frosting. You can swirl in sweetened cereals with the help of food processor. Also you can chop up them with knife if you want it more fine ground. Cereals like honey-granola include crunchy bits and types of nuts. You can buy multicolored sprinkles. You can use silver, gold or chocolate sprinkles. Also you can use colorful sugar pearls and candy rocks.
Also, you can use fresh fruits as topping for cupcakes. Fruits like Raspberries, strawberries, sliced pineapple, blueberries, orange slices are another good choice for topping of cupcakes. If you use a fruit like banana or apple, coat it in lemon juice to avoid discoloration.
There are many ways for decorating your cupcakes to make them look beautiful. Cupcake toppings play up the event theme and add a new personality to your cupcakes. You can try such decorations anytime, to surprise your dear ones and your family members.
Cupcake Decoration Ideas 