You can try decorating your cupcakes in the aforementioned fashion to turn them into tempting treats. For decorating cupcakes, you can choose from the following cupcake decorations: icing, fondant, colorful frosting, candy corns, rainbow or chocolate jimmies (sprinkles), gumdrops, chocolate, peppermints, jam, jelly, fruit leather, fresh fruits and nuts, grated coconut, etc. You will also need a simple icing pen for icing. Edible cake decorations made of sugar are easily available in stores. In order to make a birthday cupcake cake, you have to decorate each cupcake individually and arrange them together in the cake stand. Or simply, put together these assorted cupcakes on a 2-3 tiered cake stand and serve. Following are ideas for decorating cupcakes that will be helpful to you.
Gumdrops
Among all the different stuff used for decorating cupcakes, gumdrops are simply the best. They are available in several colors, and you can cut them, shape them, and use them creatively to make different designs. For a simple design, you can decorate the cupcake with white or colorful frosting. Then, arrange purple colored gumdrops in the shape of a bunch of grapes on the cupcake. Secondly, you can even make funny facial features using colorful gumdrops.
Candy Corns
Although candy corns are more popular during Halloween, you can use them for cupcake decoration. Ice the cupcake and arrange candy corns vertically around the edge of the cupcake. You can even arrange them horizontally in the shape of a star or a flower with a gumdrop as the center. Another idea is to arrange candy corns in the shape of alphabets.
Frosting, Jam and Jelly
You can use yellow colored frosting to create smiley faces on cupcakes and decorate it with fruit leather. As fruit leather is easy to cut, you can use it to create different shapes like a heart, star, etc. Secondly, you can fill the center of the cupcake with jam or jelly, and then decorate it with fondant or frosting. Thirdly, cupcakes topped with freshly grated coconut or cherries or gumdrops also look and taste awesome.
Chocolates
You can decorate a cupcake like a soccer ball, baseball or basketball, just by using colorful icing, and drawing with the help of an icing pen. Another idea is to cover the cupcake with chocolate fondant and embellish it with fresh fruit pieces like strawberries, cherries, apples, or even nuts. You can even generously sprinkle chocolate or rainbow jimmies; use chocolates or peppermints on the fondant covered cupcake.
Along with these birthday cupcake decorating ideas, you can even come up with your own innovative ideas to create a unique birthday cake. You can try out different combination of these cupcake decorations and transform them into tempting birthday cupcakes. Good luck!
