Top Tips For Cupcake Designs

Cupcakes have certainly progressed from the little tea treats that we used to bake and decorate with Mom. Today's cupcake designs are trendy and stylish, fun and humorous - just whatever takes your fancy. The secret here is to let your imagination run wild.

The following are some tips for:

Those occasions we find ourselves short of time.

o Buy ready made cupcakes from the bakery or supermarket and decorate them yourself.
o Use a ready mix packet to whip up your cupcakes.
o Use an edible writing pen for your designs instead of piping for a quick and easy solution.
o Petal paste (also known as sugar florist paste) is like ready to roll fondant and is a quick and convenient solution if time is an issue. This can be used to cut shapes.
o Pour a lot of sprinkles into a shallow dish and tip your cupcakes upside down into them.

Flavor and color for your cupcake designs.

o If you are making bright color designs and cakes make sure you always use natural food coloring as you will be using a lot of the color for brightness.
o Add a generous amount of Tia Maria or Kahlua to your frosting.
o Instant coffee or cocoa can be mixed with water to add to your icing.
o Lavender makes a pretty and unique addition to your cupcakes. The flowers can be used for decoration and are edible.
o Rose essence will add a taste of romance. Use pastel colors for the frosting.
o Use different bright colored cupcake cases in three differing sizes and place the completed cupcakes on top of each other to form a pyramid.

Cupcake gifts to take away after the party.

o Use clear circles of cellophane to wrap your cupcake and tie the top with a ribbon.
o Pack your cupcake in a small box.
o Tie a ribbon around the case of the cupcake.

There are many more ideas to use to make your cupcake designs stand out but I hope that these tips have given you food for thought. Enjoy!

Cake Decoration Designs Ideas and Tips

Decorating cakes is a good hobby to learn, unleash our imagination, and it is also a good ability that can create good money for us. If they are birthday cakes or marriage cakes, or cakes for our kids, they all need that exclusive and interesting cake decoration to create the celebration more complete and we do not have to depend on the chefs, we can absolutely learn some easy cake decorating ideas.

Trying complex designs with out mastering the basics first - Like every thing in life one should learn to walk when attempting to run. In the context cake decoration that means we should be cozy with simpler designs when attempting the more complex ones.

I have frequently viewed beginners select a design from net or magazine and give that a try. While attempting contemporary ideas are good thing. Else concentrate on easy designs and then when our hand is steady and we have good experience of the way to approach a design then only try complex patterns.

Identify a theme and design of our cake. This assists to create a draft from our design to create less room for errors. If it is for the kid, then we will need to imagine about what the kid likes such as a favorite cartoon character, a playhouse design, and some sports or musical instruments that the kid likes. Same with adults too - we are decorating a cake for our boss or our mom or our husband, it is a good ideas to start with their likes and interests.

Fondant is also a good frosting that we can put in to cake and create advanced designs. Aside from giving to cover the cake elegantly and smoothly, we will also create ribbons and huge ribbons, stars, hearts from fondant or all decorations. Decorating our marriage cake using a combine of fondant and other frostings such as butter cream or royal icing is also a good idea. Just explore and experiment using the designs and it will finally give us good designs of our own.