How to Decorate Children's Cupcakes
Standard cupcakes are delicious, but children want color and fun with their desserts. There are several ways to decorate children's cupcakes, from cute and simple to extravagant and complicated, which makes it easy to find the right decoration theme for your skill level. You do not have to be a professional pastry chef to come up with fun and creative children's cupcakes--think outside the box, use creative accessories and draw inspiration from kids themselves. Does this Spark an idea?
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Instructions
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Pick a theme. You can use things such as sports, hobbies, animals, holidays and art projects to draw inspiration for your cupcake decorations. Think about what kids like--girls often like things such as fairies or butterflies, while boys may be interested in cars or bugs.
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Draw inspiration from pop culture. You can use movies, TV shows, cartoons, games and toys for inspiration to decorate your cupcakes. Recreate a popular character or use candy with a specific character's face. If you choose a children's character, follow the same color scheme as the character's outfit for your icing and cake.
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Use fun accessories such as candy or cookies. Gummy bears, gummy worms, jelly beans, licorice and other candy make perfect decorations on cupcakes for children. Break cookies into halves or quarters to use them as a garnish. Use bright colors to make your cupcakes pop and stay away from the boring and tradition four-color food coloring pack. Red, yellow, green and blue are just the beginning; many companies offer food coloring in shades such as magenta, turquoise, purple, black and brown.
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Think outside the box. Transforming cupcakes into other items is an interesting way to make your cupcakes kid-friendly. Use white icing with red decorating gel to create baseballs for boys or make flowers for girls by using lady finger ends for petals and cookie crumbs for a black center. Using all of the cupcakes to create one unified design is also a creative and fun way to decorate cupcakes for kids.
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Tips & Warnings
Include children in the frosting and decorating process for extra fun. Set up two stations; one where the kids can choose between different colored frosting and another where they can choose their decorations.
Bake cupcakes in advance and freeze them to decorate the day of. If you get detailed in your decorating or if you have a lot of cupcakes, you probably won't have time to bake, decorate and serve your cupcakes the same day.
References
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