tiny choc sweets for cupcake decorations

Grimbal

Now, I'm not usually one for not knowing her way around a chocolate box, but I'm stumped on this one.

I'll be making some cupcakes for my nieces 3rd birthday party: vanilla with choc frosting and choc with vanilla frosting. I wanted to decorate them with a selection of small chocolate sweeties.

Does anyone know of any type of sweet I could use? I'd ideally like lots of different types, but just mini ones, so I could put a few of each type on each cupcake

TIA

Liz

got-it-spend-it

You can buy mini chocolate stars and the like for decorating cupcakes, but do you mean chocolate like you get in a box of chocolates, only smaller? If so then I'm not sure. I'll be interested to hear the replies though.

I did cupcakes with chocolate frosting and put one big chocolate on each and they looked good.

ragz_2

Not sure if you can get hold of many now it's after Christmas but my hubby had mini Rolos, we've also had mini smarties (maybe in multi packs?) and those magic stars might look quite cute. Chocolate buttons/white choc buttons could look nice too.
Good luck!

Fluffysheep38

How about some of the Easter chocolate that is out at the moment. Mr T's have got micro eggs... a bag of tiny mini eggs, I think about a quid! They also do a tub of cake decorations, which is split into 4 sections, each with a different type of chocolate in it (choc 100'sx1000's, choc shavings, chocolate toffees and some other, can't remember lol!)

cat4772

mini eggs, stars, smarties usually work well. I've sometimes used a slightly crushed flake on nearly set chocolate icing (not crushed too fine but small than shavings of chocolate). And as fluffysheep38 says, you can get chocolate cake decorations from supermarkets (usually in bakery section).

I'm sure the buns/ cupcakes will be delicious whatever you put on top of them

kayl

If white chocolate would do, Tesco have reduced their tubs which contain 4 different types of cake decorations ( presumably as they regard them as a Chrstmas item!) from £1.50 to 37p

Penelope_Penguin

Morrisons has tubes of several different chocolate decorations, if they'll be appropriate. We have tiny stars, and tiny rice crispies covered in 3 colours of chocolate.

Grimbal

d'Oh ! how on earth could I forget about the mini stars & rolos?!! As for the micro eggs - they could be _just_ the thing
Next time I'm in Tescos, I'll keep an eye out for the white choc stars - I was in that section the other day (the family likes my baking!) and didn't see them but will get the eagle-eyed hubby on the case this time too!

thankyou all so much - you're all geniuses

Bitsy_Beans

A friend recently decorated her cupcakes with an oreo cookie stuck in the frosting If you could get the mini oreos they would work just as well and be a bit easier for 3 year olds

PinkTiger

i've seen mini Jammy Dodgers somewhere but cant think which shop. went for afternoon tea at a cafe on wednesday & on one of their leaflets was a pic of cupcakes topped with a mini jammy dodger, looked really cute xx

PinkTiger

sorry, just realised you wanted 'chocolate' suggestions, so please ignore my post above!:D.

what about those white chocolate mice, usually found amongst the 3 for £1 sweets in Tesco etc, or those choc buttons with the coloured balls on (like hundreds & thousands but round), i've bought them in Aldi quite recently.