Choosing cupcake toppers depends on budget and occasion. Use candies, cookies, and frosting to decorate. For eye-catching interest, create dimension with toppers. Quick decorations can be achieved with sprinkles, while more detailed decorations require time. Customize decorations for holidays and events.
Choosing the best cupcake toppers is quite simple when you factor in your budget, allowance, and occasion. Cupcakes can be elegant, time-consuming, gourmet, and expensive, or they can be whimsical, quick, creative, and fairly inexpensive to make. For example, the best cupcake decorations for a wedding will be very different from those needed for a child’s birthday party. In addition to commercial cupcake sprinkles and colored sugars, a variety of candies and cookies can be used along with the frosting to decorate cupcakes.
The best way to add eye-catching interest to cupcakes, such as for a child’s birthday party or bake sale, is to choose cupcake toppers that create dimension. For example, a piece of green twisted licorice upside down with the ends pressed into the upper edges of the cupcake can become a basket handle. Two small round wafer cookies placed a small distance apart, with most of the wafers hanging off the top edge of a cupcake, can make ears for making teddy bear cupcakes.
Tiny Graham Wafer Teddy Bear Cookies can be “dressed up” by piping colorful frosted “dresses” on them. Dressed Bear cookies can stand atop frosted cupcakes to create a miniature scene limited only by the imagination. More candy or cookie decorations can be added to complete the look. These types of cupcake decorations are best saved for when there’s plenty of time to fuss with little details.
For quick cupcake decorations, all you need is a quick sprinkle of sweet topping. The most attractive way to do this is to contrast the sprinkles with the top color of the frosted cupcake. For example, miniature white marshmallows sprinkled on cupcakes can make for a fun and different decoration, but not the same color as the vanilla frosting. The classic multi-colored sprinkles go with any frosting color, but sprinkling some gourmet jelly beans on each cupcake can be an updated alternative.
Dark green colored sugar sprinkled cupcakes topped with light green icing can be served to honor St. Patrick’s Day. Add some red candies on top and the cupcake decorating technique itself is ready for a Christmas party. One of the best cupcake decorating ideas for a baby shower is to top some cupcakes with pastel pinks and others with baby blue colored sugar. Small inedible cupcakes such as mini baby bottles can be placed on top of each cupcake.
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