Tips and Tricks on Cupcake Decorating

We all love cupcakes, so why don’t you try your hand at baking a batch and decorating. With just a few ingredients and equipment, you can create a wonderful cake display table for your next party celebration.

Before, you get out your recipe book there are a few basic techniques for cupcake decorating.

First you will need buttercream icing (this is just icing sugar and butter,you can always find the recipe online). Secondly, you will need piping bags with different sized tips. You can find these in cake decorating shops.

One of the easiest cupcake decorations you can make is spreading the icing with a small spatula, then add some sprinkles. That's all. Simple.

Another great idea for cupcake decorations are the spirals. Just fill your piping bag with buttercream and start from the outside and turn till you get to the middle, then lift to create a spike.

You can also decorate the top of the cupcakes with small rosettes: start in the middle and swirl around, then lift .

If you love sweets, then you can add your favourite sweet or chocolate to your cupcakes. Top the icing of your cupcake with pieces of chocolate, M & M's, skittles, or some mini Oreo's.

I hope you find these cupcake decorations tip and tricks useful and you will try your hand at decorating. It is not that hard. Keep on practicing and you will soon become like a pro in no time. I will love to see your attempts, so drop me a line sometime.

Talk to you next week.