Daffodil Cupcakes - Perfect for Mothers Day and Easter

There's nothing like the personal touch when it comes to presents, and a box of hand decorated homemade cupcakes makes a lovely gift for anyone - and with both Mothers Day and Easter just around the corner now is the perfect time put this into practice with these pretty daffodil cupcakes.

The beauty of these daffodil cake decorations is that you do not need any cutters or special equipment to make them - just coloured sugarpaste and cocktail sticks.

There are 2 versions of the cupcake toppers to choose from, neither are difficult to make but you will need to set aside around an hour to make them including drying time.

For full instructions simply follow the link - Daffodil Cupcakes

Creative Cupcake Decorating - The Eyes Have It

They say the eyes are the windows of the soul ~ I don't know if that's true or not, but when it comes to cupcake decorating the eyes certainly have the ability to add character to any cake - it's certainly a tip I give to anyone attending one of my cupcake decorating classes.

When it comes to kids and cupcake decorating, they love it to be able to make something recognisable or fun - and one of the best ways to do that is to add eyes. After all how many times have you been presented with something that looks like nothing more than a splodge of buttercream on cake and you've had to say 'That's lovely ~ what is it?'.

Eyes turn things into something, and give character - take the swirly whirly monsters above for example, without the eyes they are no more than a swirl of multi-coloured buttercream. With the eyes (and tongue) they take on characters all of their own.

Of course eyes can be added to almost any cupcake design, be it a flower, swirl of buttercream, or random assortment of sprinkles - it's a quick and simple trick of adding life to your cakes without any tricky techniques.

Cupcake Decorating Classes

Cupcake decorating classes are a great way to take your cupcake decorating hobby to the next level.

Classes are available in just about every town and city around at the moment, and they range from beginners to advanced, from general decorating techniques to specifics such as sugar modelling or wedding cupcakes.

The quickest way to find a cupcake decorating class near you is to do a quick search of the Internet, as these classes, like most things these days, tend to be listed online.

Once you find one you like the look of it's worth booking up early as places get snapped up very quickly.

Ladybird Cupcakes

Ladybird cupcakes are one of my favourites ~ they're just so unbelievable cute. Plus they're also very simple to make and you'll find a link to the instructions at the bottom of this page.

Ladybird cupcakes almost more than any other are great to make with kids because they are so simple ~ in fact kids from age around 4 upwards should be able to manage these. Younger kids will stil love to do cupcake decorating but will be more interested in how many sweets they can fit on a cupcake than how much like a ladybird it looks.



Cupcake decorating is a great activity for kids as it's both creative and culinary (well it is if you get them to make the cupcakes too), but coming up with a constant stream of cupcake decorating ideas can be a challange so I hope you find the ones suggested here useful.

Anyway back to those instructions ~ How to Make Ladybird Cupcakes.

Ever Wondered How to Make Easy Elephant Cupcakes?

There's no doubt about it, elephant cupcakes are cute, and very easy to make - you'll find a link to the instructions on how to it below.

As arts and crafts activities go cupcake decorating is up there with the best of them. It's great fun, lets kids express their creativity in a novel way, and they get to make something they can eat.  In fact cupcake decorating can be a great theme for a birthday party, and is pretty easy to put together yourself ~ as you'll see here in this article on cupcake decorating parties.


The only challenge to cupcake decorating or cupcake parties is constantly coming up with new cupcake decorating idea ~ but then that's what this blog is for.

Anyway back to the elephant cupcake instructions, here they are ~ Easy Elephant Cupcakes.

Cardboard Cupcake Stands Are Great For Parties

So you've got your cupcakes for your party and they're gorgeous.

Next question is how are you going to display them. You can lay them out on a table, but to really display them to their best you need a cupcake stand.

Now cupcake stands are not all made equal and without doubt the best are the acryclic cupcake towers, but unless you're either making cupcakes on a full time basis, or need to regularly display a couple of hundred cupcakes at a time, splashing out on one of these beauties is a bit of an extravagance.

A much more cost effective option is a cardboard cupcake stand. These are available in a wide range of styles and colours from kids Princess Cupcake Stands to pretty pinks and blues and even plain white, which while they may look a bit ordinary at first, make great stands to decorate yourself ~ or get your kids to get creative with stickers and decorate them for you.

Always fill your disposable cupcake stand from the base upwards, and make sure you put it together in the place you want to use it ~ otherwise it's a recipe for cupcakes all over the floor.

Decorate Your Cupcakes with Sugarpaste Lilies for a Perfect Present

People love cupcakes, so why not give those hard to buy for people that you know hand decorated cupcakes for their next birthday / good luck gift / thank you gift etc.

Cupcakes make great presents, and if you make them yourself they also make very cost effective presents which is always a bonus. However, if you're not practiced in the art it can be a challenge to decorate them ~ at least with something a little more original than sprinkles. Not that there's anything wrong with sprinkles but do that a few times and your nearest and dearest will begin to suspect that either:

a) you have a sprinkle fetish, or
b) that's your entire cupcake decorating repertoire

But it doesn't have to be that way. The great thing about cupcake decorating is that there are always great cupcake decorating ideas just waiting in the wings ~ such as these sugarpaste lilies. They are very simple to make, and look extremely elegant either as a single sugarpaste lily on a cupcake or a bunch.

Follow the link for full instructions on how to make sugar paste lilies for your cupcakes.