Easy Cupcake Decorating - Simple Ideas, Trendy Treats!

Are you looking for some quick, simple ways to add originality and zing to your cupcakes? If you think you have to be Martha Stewart, learning to follow difficult or complex cake decorating techniques – think again! You can have lots of fun decorating cupcakes with these simple, easy ideas.

Use these suggestions when you’re looking for a way to add decorating pizzazz to those cupcakes without complicated fuss. If your kids happen to be helping you decorate cupcakes for the school bake sale or their holiday party, so much the better. Make plenty of extras - kids love these colorful, tasty treats!

Sprinkles

For kid-friendly, super-easy cupcake decorating, everybody loves multicolored sprinkles. They are available in all shapes and sizes, and sure to match any theme or event you have planned. Besides the varied shapes, you can easily find colored sugars, edible beads, non-pareils and dragees, to name just a few. Check out the cake decorating aisle at your local grocery or craft store for lots of great ideas.

Nuts and Flakes

Try these options too for decorating variety on your cupcakes to add both taste and texture. You can find many different types of coconut, from shredded to flaked, natural or toasted, to sprinkle on cupcakes. Also consider chopped nuts like pecans, walnuts or peanuts. These are a great compliment to both chocolate or spice cupcakes, especially.

Edible Spray Paint

Edible spray paint is made essentially for baking and is sold in a variety of colors, which you can mix and match for a really professional look to your cupcakes. Try mixing it to make a freehand tie-dyed effect or spray it on using a stencil.

Fresh Fruit

Help your kids get their daily fruit by putting it on their cupcakes! Try whatever is in season, like strawberries or other berries, peaches or grapes, cherries or citrus slices, like orange, lemon or lime. Arrange any of these on tope of your cupcakes – group them together or make a border around each one.

Edible Flowers

The kids may think this is “weird” but adults love edible flowers. Try carnations, clover, cornflowers, lilacs, pansy, rose petals, mint or violet for truly easy cupcake decorating. Sugar them as you would fruit or use them plain.

These great decorating tips are from our “Cake Decorating Made Easy!” Video Books. Here’s what one happy person had to say about them:

"I highly recommend the "Cake Decorating Made Easy" e-books to all want-to-be cake makers as well as the already highly talented cake makers out their!"

A. Van der Gulik, Whangarei, Northland, New Zealand

With these easy decorating tips, your stylish cupcakes will be best sellers at the school bake sale or perfect enough even for Martha Stewart!