Decorating Cupcakes...help!

Crafty_JuJu

Hi, its my hubbys 30th Birthday next weekend & I was thinking of making him cupcakes with the kids instead of one large cake.

Was woundering if anyone could give me advice on decorating them to make them extra special?
I like the look of the ones with what looks like a cream topping ontop...hows that made?

Many thanks for any advice?

lisawood78

I made a cupcake wedding cake for friends last year, and found how to do all the swirly icing etc by using Google, it gave me loads of different websites etc, plus some video tutorials on You tube

danables

I made some for my daughters school fate they went down really well. I just made some buttercream icing,(quantitys are on the back of the icing sugar pack) used the tiniest amount of colouring, lots of edible glitter and rice paper toppers and they were really effective and simple to do. I did want to make white ones but I couldnt get hold of the american ingerdient they use as the lightest butter you can get here is lurpack and they still just looked like butter on top of the cake.

Here is a pic of my first efforts:

finnigan

Cream Cheese frosting

200g full fat cream cheese (I use Tesco value)
100g soft butter
600g icing sugar

Flavourings

Strawberry - add 1tbsp jam and a drop of red food colouring
Vanilla - add 1tsp vanilla extract

Its yum

Crafty_JuJu

danables - WoW there great They look very yummy

I think I've had a blonde moment (even though I'm not!) I got it into my mind it was some extra special mixture to make it...doh lol

Many thanks for your help both of you.

I will post pics (if it will let me as I'm still a newbie around here) when I've made them next week

Crafty_JuJu

finnigan - Mmmmm cream cheese in the mixture, thats sounds very yummy, thanks I already buy Tesco value one, I think its just as nice as the more expensive phili!

Crafty_JuJu

While looking on Youtube I've just come across 'Cake Pops' these look like fun to make My hubbys having friends round for a computer games night on the Sat so I may have to make these for a bit of fun (sorry still can't post links)

angelax

hi juju

heres some cupcakes i made http://www.flickr.com/photos/34984726@N07/3279945164/in/set-72157620578501425/

i used Swiss Meringue Buttercream - heres the recipe http://!!!!!!/i0d6x (i used lurpak unsalted butter) and a 1M wilton nozzle.

Crafty_JuJu

angelax wrote: »

hi juju

heres some cupcakes i made http://www.flickr.com/photos/34984726@N07/3279945164/in/set-72157620578501425/

i used Swiss Meringue Buttercream - heres the recipe http://!!!!!!/i0d6x (i used lurpak unsalted butter) and a 1M wilton nozzle.

Your cakes are amazing, I so hope mine can turn out that good I like the idea of a flag...I'm thinking of doing a couple with 30 on

Thankyou also for the link to the recipe

Crafty_JuJu

Wowhoo thats the 1st time its let me put a link on...cool

sarymclary

Hi,

Angelax those cupcakes look fab!

I've been experimenting with different cupcake recipes recently, trying to do some of the American ones for an 'authentic' taste. However, they all seem to use plain flour (or as they call 'all purpose flour'), plus a tsp or so of baking powder. I find that the cake hardly rises, and has a very dense, sticky compact texture, making it very heavy. Has anyone else tried them and had the same experience?

What cake recipe are you guys using?