Easy Cupcakes

Here’s another take on snowflake cupcakes. Instead of piping your design on flat-topped cupcakes, make snowflakes on fat, rounded cupcakes. Include a variety of patterns for a more realistic snowstorm.
What You Need: 1 cupcake (baked and cooled); icing tinted light blue; white icing (add piping gel to homemade icing and use pastry bag with round tip, or just buy a tube of white writing icing.)
How to Make It: Frost cupcake light blue and let sit for awhile so frosting “crusts” slightly. Using pastry bag and metal tip (we used tip No. 3), or prepackaged tube, pipe snowflake shapes. To keep from getting unwanted peaks in your lines, stop squeezing before you pull away.

Just as every snowflake in nature is unique, so it can be for your next batch of cupcakes. Have fun experimenting with different designs and colors. Maybe even add some sprinkles, or Wilton Cake Sparkles.

What You Need: 1 cupcake (baked and cooled); icing tinted light blue; white frosting in decorating bag and round tip 1, 2 or 3 (or just use a commercially made tube of writing icing).
How to Make It: Frost cupcake blue. Using fluid motions and even pressure, pipe snowflake shapes onto cupcake. It’s easiest if, for each “line” in your design, you lightly touch the tip to the surface of the cupcake, pull away as you gently squeeze the length of the line, and touch the tip down again to reattach. Be sure to stop squeezing before you pull away.