Heart balloon cupcake
These conversation heart cupcakes are incredibly fast to make, and depending on which heart messages you choose, can be customized for kids, sweethearts or anyone on Valentine’s Day!
What You Need: 1 cupcake; pink frosting; 3 conversation hearts; chocolate icing in a tube, or use a pasty bag and metal tip #1.
How to Make It: Frost cupcake. Arrange 3 hearts near top of cupcake. Use chocolate icing to “draw” balloon strings.
XO chocolate cupcake
Consider “going chocolate” with your Valentine’s Day cupcakes. Add a sweet message, too!
What You Need: Chocolate icing; assorted Valentine’s Day themed sprinkles; pastry bag with No. 3 metal tip (or use chocolate icing in bag or tube).
How to Make It: Frost cupcake. Add sprinkles. Pipe X and O (or message of your choice) on top of cupcake–right on top of the sprinkles.
Valentine bear cupcake
Make these cute pink bear cupcakes for a Valentine’s Day party at your kid’s school, or for your sweetheart.
What You Need: 1 cupcake; white frosting; frosting tinted pink (or just use Pillsbury’s Valentine frosting like I did); chocolate frosting (or black writing icing in a tube); 2 heart-shaped cinnamon candies; pastry bag and coupler; No. 12 metal tip; No. 5 metal tip; No. 1 metal tip. (No. 1 is for the eyes, nose and mouth.)
How to Make It: Frost cupcake white. Fit pastry bag with coupler and No. 12 metal tip and fill partway with pink icing. Squeeze in one spot near center of cupcake (don’t pull up) for bear head. Switch to No. 5 tip. Squeeze to create bear’s muzzle and ears. Use pastry bag and No. 1 tip to add features using chocolate icing. Add 2 heart-shaped red hots, points touching, for bow. For a girl bear, add a bow to her “hair.”
Baby christening cupcake
Pastel icing colors and cute plastic babies are the perfect recipe for a christening, baptism, baby blessing or baby shower. These cupcakes would be just right for a girl baby shower, or use blues for a boy version.
What You Need: 1 cupcake; white frosting; pink icing in pastry bag with star tip, or use premade icing in a tube; plastic praying baby figurine.
How to Make It: Frost cupcake white. Pipe stars all around the edge of the cupcake (if you don’t stop squeezing the pastry bag or tube when you pull up, you’ll get a pointier effect). Place baby figure in center of cupcake.
Football cupcake
EasyCupcakes.com has featured several football cupcakes suitable for Super Bowl parties and other events. But if your treats to come together as quickly as possible (in other words, you’re punting), try these easy Super Bowl cupcakes. There’s no piping at all, just sprinkle and party on!
What You Need: 1 cupcake; green icing (pretinted, or use food coloring); green sugar or sprinkles; foil-wrapped football chocolate candy.
How to Make It: Frost cupcake. Sprinkle with green sugar for grass. Add football candy.
Baby shower boy
Make baby shower cupcakes quick by using commercially made plastic toppers. These sleeping babies can be found at arts and crafts and specialty shops and come in both boy and girl versions. You could write the baby’s name, if known, on the cupcakes, or just “boy” or “girl,” or maybe some of each if you want to turn your cupcakes into a fun guessing game activity!
What You Need: 1 cupcake; white frosting; frosting tinted blue; pastry bag and round metal tip #3 or similar (or use premade icing in a tube.)
How to Make It: Frost cupcake. Pipe word in blue icing near front of cupcake, leaving room for plastic baby. Add the baby!
Inauguration cupcake
If you’re planning an Inauguration Day party for Inauguration Day, Jan. 20, 2009, many of EasyCupcakes.com’s patriotic cupcakes would be appropriate. But if you really want to get specific, here’s a design honoring the actual inauguration date of President Barack Obama. You can make this; yes you can!
What You Need: 1 cupcake; white frosting; frosting tinted blue; star-shaped sprinkles; pastry bag and round metal tip (or use icing in a tube).
How to Make It: Frost cupcake white. Pipe the date, 1-20-09, in blue, being sure to start at the far left so you don’t run out of room. Accent with star sprinkles.
