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Birthday CupcakesWith three children in the house, we seem to spend hours each year deciding which decorations we will be using on the birthday cupcakes. We spend so much time looking at magazines and "surfing the net" to get inspirations for that "special" party idea.
Younger children love anything colourful and girls never seem to tire of pink. My son has always been more relaxed than my girls about his birthday cupcakes, but his favourites have been animals and cars.
There are so many ways to decorate the cakes. A plate or tower of cupcakes can be iced very simply but look very effective if other decorations are also used. A bunch of colourful
balloons
floating away look great and are very easy to decorate. A crawly caterpillar is another easy solution that can be made as big or small as you wish. These three birthday ideas can be made so that each guest receives their own cupcake.
An easy way to have an
ice-cream
cake without the mess of ice-cream melting on a hot day or the children freezing on a cold day is another idea. Cupcakes placed in ice-cream cones and iced with
buttercream frosting
and topped with sprinkles or a chocolate bar look like the real thing.
A really easy decorating idea is to frost cupcakes with pale blue frosting, add a jelly baby and a paper umbrella - you've got a beach scene.
Yellow frosting with a smiley face drawn on it in either edible black gel or piped dark chocolate, is guaranteed to bring a smile to everyone's face.
Once I show you some of my tricks to decorating you will find that the preparation does not take long. The most time-consuming part will be deciding which idea to follow. Return from birthday suggestions to home page.
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