Cupcake Ideas

Cupcake Ideas

Cupcakes have been colse to for a long time, and in general on the past be used as a fun thing for parents and child to make together, but now they are a versatile food that can be used in many dissimilar occasions. From weddings to birthday parties the cupcake provides a relatively simple (to make) base for some absorbing variations.

Here are a few ideas.

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Cupcakes can be used for wedding cakes. Couples are using wedding cupcakes to replace the customary wedding cake. A glass shelving buildings is used to build the cupcakes into a 'wedding cake shape'. The great things about this is that each guest can get their own personel cake. The down side is depending on how detailed each cake is detailed, it can be very time absorbing to decorate each - however, for that extra day, we think that it s worth the effort!

Cowboy and Indians themed birthday party. As a large batch of plain cupcakes can be of course made, it is relatively easy to then split them into some batches and then ice them differently to reflect those that are dressed as cowboys and those that are dressed as Indians. In addition to this, this is a great tactic if you and your friends are watching a big sporting event with two rival teams - the cupcakes can reflect the team colours!

Sports cupcakes. I have previously made salutary cupcakes where I have included, raisins, banana and nuts to provide an power boosting pre-sports snack. The great thing about these was that cupcakes are easy to store and vehicle so they can of course be taken to the actual event.

As you can seen, the humble cupcake base as many applications, and of course is only slight by your imagination. Have fun with them and experiment, they are fairly cheap to make so it is not he end of the world if a batch doesn't quite work out and has to end up in the bin!

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Cupcake Decorating Ideas - Easy Buttercream or Frosting

Cupcake Decorating Ideas - Easy Buttercream or Frosting

Simple, but excellent buttercream (or "frosting" as it is elsewhere known) to use for all cupcake decorating ideas. Enough for 12 cupcakes or one singular large cake.

Equipment:

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Large mixing bowl
Electric mixer (or elbow grease)
Wooden spoon

Ingredients:

1 cup (225g) of unsalted butter at room temperature
3.5 cups (450g) of sifted icing sugar
1 teaspoon of vanilla extract 

This is so nice and simple, yet so effective. The key is to make sure the butter and icing sugar are mixed together well and whipped sufficiently.

• Add all the butter to the bowl, it literally will need to be room temperature to do the next steps easily.

• Add one third of the icing sugar and stir it in with a wooden spoon until the butter and icing sugar has combined. Repeat this step two more times until all the icing sugar is mixed into the butter.

• At this stage, pour in the teaspoon of vanilla citation and stir in.

• Take an galvanic mixer and use it on the mixture on a might speed for up to 5 minutes, you will see the mixture become lighter in colour and softer to the touch.

• It is now ready to add to your piping bag, or apply level to the cake using a knife or back of a spoon to spread it on.

See, simple.

In addition, here are a combine of tips for icing cupcakes in a uncomplicated but sufficient way:

If you are using a piping bag:

Buttercream Mountain:

Use a Wilton 1M nozzle. Pipe slowly around the outside of the top of the cupcake, spiralling inwards - letting the buttercream pile up in the centre. Discontinue the piping with a quick twist of the bag, breaking off the flow of buttercream.

Buttercream Rose:

Use a Wilton 1M nozzle. Pipe slowly from the centre of the cupcake, spiralling outwards until the whole top of the cupcake is covered. Discontinue the piping with a quick twist of the bag, while guiding the end of the buttercream into the edge of the cupcake. If you have any sweets, this join is the ideal place to stick them as it hides any messiness. 

Without a piping bag:

Place a mound of buttercream onto the centre of the cupcake and with a knife or teaspoon, press the buttercream down while pulling it out to the edges of the cupcake. Once the buttercream is outside the whole of the cupcake, tidy up the edges by running the spoon or knife at a 45 degree angle around the edge of the buttercream to level it off.

Hopefully you've already had some cupcake decorating ideas already by now, any way they look in the end, with this recipe they're sure to taste great.

Cupcake Decorating Ideas - Easy Buttercream or Frosting

Cupcake Decorations

Cupcake Decorations

Cupcake liners already have cornered the shop for any years as the most beloved cupcake decorations and accessories for all cupcake events. Having said that, today there is a new thing in town! Cupcake wrappers have grown to be beloved the last few years as less of a baking item, but more for cupcake decorations. These style-inspired wrappers employed contemporary designs and styles to add flare to just about any typical cupcake and allows for a versatile treat for any occasion.

Holiday cupcake wrappers are a marvelous alternative to cupcake liners and are ready in patterns for every time of the year. Assorted beloved online market offer wrappers specifically designed for Valentine's Day, Easter, Independence Day, Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas. Far more compared to your accepted holiday-themed candy, these kinds of decorations give a brand new twist to an old first-rate treat and are also favorable for roughly any holiday get together!

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Special functions necessitate unique refreshments! Cupcake wrappers are offered in a range of styles designed especially for life's unique moments. Instead of cupcake liners, wrappers are a marvelous option for decorations at baby showers, school celebrations, birthdays, bar mitzvahs, bridal showers, as well as a wedding. Far from your quarterly wedding cake, a contemporary trend is normally to build a cake-shaped tower theory with cupcake wrappers. Together with tons of styles, colors, and styles to pick from, this wrapper trend at weddings is stylish, stylish, and positive to be a unforgettable component of your extra day.

The cupcake wrappers craze has hit full force. Every place you look you'll find unique cupcake bakeries, bake sales, as well as decorations for making your small cake fashionable. No matter the flavor, be it red velvet, fudge, or vanilla, enclosed by a wrapper your cupcake will be preferred for its look just as much as its flavor!

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Cupcake Recipes - From Baking to Frosting

Cupcake Recipes - From Baking to Frosting

Any cake recipe can be converted to a cupcake one. Think cupcakes as mini cakes of anyone type of cake you are found of and using that cake's recipes, create appetizing mini cakes. With a box of cake mix, the whole process is made a lot easier. One box will make in the middle of 24 and 30 cupcakes baked in a quarterly size cupcake pan. But mixing the ingredients is where the real fun of making cakes is, so let's equip you with what you will need.

The Basics
21/4 cups flour
3 tsp baking powder
11/3 cups sugar
2 eggs
1 cup milk
½ cup shortening
Food coloring

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Depending on the recipe you are using, there will be additions to these ingredients. For instance, you can have ¼ cup cocoa for chocolate flavored cupcakes. Other flavorings you can add to your cake blend consist of nutmegs, ground ginger, lime, shredded coconut, mashed bananas, cinnamon, raisins and almonds among others. There is no limit to what you can use in your cupcake mixture, just as long as the flavors blend into each other well. Plainly adapt the separate cake recipes you like and turn them into cupcake recipes.

You will also need a cupcake pan, cupcake pan liners, mixer, large bowl and an oven.

Begin by preheating the oven. Add flour, baking powder, salt and sugar, milk, vanilla and shortening into the large bowl and beat for a minute. Add the eggs, one at a time, beating wholly after each addition. Mix wholly for nearby 3 minutes or until a level consistency is achieved.

Line the pan with the cupcake liners then fill 2/3 of them with the mixture. An ice-cream scoop will help you get definite amounts of blend in the pan. For regular-size pans, use a scoop that measures 1/3 so you only put two. As they rise, they will occupy the remaining space to form a mound. Place the pan in the oven and let it bake for nearby 23 minutes. If you need to make more but do not have other cupcake pan, store the blend in the refrigerator as the first batch of cupcakes cooks. When ready, remove, cool the pan for about 15 minutes then add the remaining mixture. On average, a pan makes 12 cupcakes at a time.

Allow the cupcakes time to cool wholly before you can frost them. In the meantime, work on the cupcake frosting recipes you are going to use. There are four basic types of frosting: butter cream, chocolate butter cream, dark chocolate ganache and lemon cream cheese frosting. For butter cream frosting, you will need to mix150g soft butter and 12g confectioner's sugar. Add 1 tsp vanilla and 2 tsp hot water or milk to make a creamy mix. To make chocolate butter frosting, substitute the vanilla with 2 tsp cocoa.

To make chocolate ganache, you need 1 ounce bittersweet chocolate, ½ cup heavy cream, 3 tbsp butter and 3 tbsp brandy (optional). Melt the first 3 ingredients and mix them all together. Pour in the brandy if using. Allow blend to cool before spreading generously over your cupcakes. Lemon cheese frosting will give a confident taste to your cupcakes. For this, sift 30g softened butter, 80g softened cream cheese, 1½ cup confectioner's sugar and 1 tsp grated lemon rind. Mix the ingredients and beat them till they are creamy, then spread them on the cupcakes. Use either a frosting/pastry spatula or pastry bag to evenly spread either type of frosting over the cupcakes.

Cupcake Recipes - From Baking to Frosting

Cupcake Decorations - Christmas Cupcake Ideas

Cupcake Decorations - Christmas Cupcake Ideas

If you love Christmas time like I do, you'll probably agree that decorations are a big part of the season. And what would Christmas be without all the goodies? For my family and me, this includes cupcake decorations. If we're honest, the tendency to over-indulge in such sweets is more prevalent colse to the holidays - and I wouldn't have it any other way! So, I hope you enjoy these imaginative and whimsical Christmas cupcake ideas - creating as well as eating them.

o Here's a real time saver - it's straightforward yet fun, and your family, friends and party guests will love them. Start with your favorite cupcake recipe, from scratch or otherwise - a dozen or more, depending on quantity needed/desired. Generously top them with white frosting, add shredded coconut, dust with powdered sugar and voila! Instant, mini-winter-wonderland in a yummy cup.

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o These are great for parties year-round, and especially at Christmas time. The idea is to generate a minute Christmas present atop each cupcake. Use a variety of icing colors; red licorice works well for your ribbons and/or bows. Toss on a small estimate of sprinkles, if desired. (As with all these ideas, creativity is key.) For place setting name cards, use gift tags. Your guests will love these personalized, wonderfully edible place markers!

o Santa's face was never so yummy: Top your favorite cupcakes, each one with red frosting on one side, white on the other. Mini marshmallows separate the two colors, forming Santa's hat brim. Carefully use brown chocolate or green frosting to craft his face upon the white-iced side. Use little, round candies for Santa's facial features (eyes, nose, etc.) Thin strips of varied edible goodies (fruit roll-up cutouts, thin licorice whips) work great for the jolly old elf's smile.

o These snowman cupcakes are sure to be a hit. White icing forms the base (or, snow on the "ground.") Top that with a big marshmallow, add a minute one above that (getting the picture?) A toothpick inserted vertically, straight through both marshmallows helps hold freezing together. Use small candies (your choice) for eyes, nose, etc. - held in place with a small bit of frosting. Try a small piece of Tootsie Roll for his hat. These snowmen won't likely melt ... But they won't last long, either!

o For this one, you'll need about one and a half dozen cupcakes, and a suitably big, festive platter to hold them all. (We're "building" a Christmas tree here, made of cupcakes.) Top all but four of your cupcakes with green icing - the remainder you'll frost in brown chocolate. Simply dispose the four brown-topped cakes at one end of the plate, in the shape of your tree trunk. dispose your green cupcakes above the brown, in a triangle, forming the rest of your tree. As for decorations, have fun, and don't be shy - small chocolates (kisses, bells, and other shapes) are a must. Any and all colors of M&M's are good; minute candy canes, peppermints ... You get the idea. As always, you can't go wrong using grated coconut as snow, and red licorice makes great garland. Try tubes of gel icing, in a variety of colors, which can be found at most supermarkets (or party furnish stores.) You might want to take a few photos before they devour your "tree!"

Have fun development (and of course, eating) your Christmas cupcakes - hopefully, these will inspire you to come up with some of your own yummy, artistic creations!

Cupcake Decorations - Christmas Cupcake Ideas

Unique Cupcake Ideas For Your Next Birthday Party

Unique Cupcake Ideas For Your Next Birthday Party

Cupcakes can be more than just a sumptuous treat at your next birthday party or bridal shower. This much-loved dessert can also be a main attraction of the party.  Try these tips to take your birthday cupcakes to a show-stopping next level.

Cupcakes Big and Small

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Did you know you can make other sizes apart from your standard cup-sized cupcake?  Now cupcake molds are ready in bite-sized up to giant versions that will double as a full, shareable cake.  It's not much extra work to pour your cupcake batter into several different-sized molds. The visual supervene of a giant cupcake centerpiece surrounded by rows of gradually smaller cupcakes is both mouth-watering and photogenic. Have fun with it!

Table Decor

A multi-tiered plate full of beautifully decorated cupcakes makes an attention-grabbing centerpiece for a table or buffet.  They can also be part of seating arrangements by setting a food-friendly placecard stand in the cupcake in front of each place setting. Just try to keep the guests away until dessert!

New Ideas For Frosting and Garnishing

Think about decorating ideas you've seen for big cakes and make them small. For example, each cupcake can have a photographic replacement image on the frosting, similar to what you may have seen in sheetcakes. plump a variety of funny images of the birthday celebrant to decorate the cupcakes.

Also consider a wider variety of frosting garnishes such as gumballs, lollipops, m&m's, munchkins, pretzels or popcorn to top each cupcake. These add unique flavors and can be inspired by the birthday girl or boy's beloved foods. For another unique presentation, place the cupcake frosted on the top and sides in a small ice cream cone.  Voila, a cupcake cone!  Or, place one letter on each cupcake so that when you present them on a tray, they are arranged to spell "Happy Birthday."

Remember to color coordinate cupcakes with your other decorations for a astonishing display.  Also be sure to have a supply of festive party bags or boxes for your guests to take a cupcake home as a party favor.  Use these tips to make cupcakes a memorable part of your extra day.

Unique Cupcake Ideas For Your Next Birthday Party