Birthday Cupcake Decorating Ideas

A birthday party can never be complete without a birthday cake. You must have tried the traditional black forest, pineapple upside down or chocolate cake with cherries for birthdays. Are you planning to have something different for the birthday of your child, other than these traditional cakes? Cupcake birthday cakes are in vogue these days and decorating cupcakes can be a lot of fun. Here are some birthday cupcake decorating ideas that will help make your kid's birthday special.

Cupcake Decorations
For decorating cupcakes, you can choose from the following cupcake decorations- icing, fondant, colorful frosting, candy corns, rainbow or chocolate jimmies, gumdrops, chocolate, peppermints, jam, jelly, fruit leather, fresh fruits and nuts, grated coconut etc. You will also need a simple icing pen for icing. Edible cake decorations in different shapes that are made of sugar, are easily available in stores.

Cupcake Decorating Ideas
In order to make a birthday cupcake cake, you have to decorate each cupcake individually and arrange them together in different shapes. The following are ideas for decorating cupcakes which you can use together to create a birthday cake.

Gumdrops
Gumdrops are the best embellishments for decorating cupcakes. As they are available in many colors, you can use them creatively to make different designs. Initially, decorate the cupcake with white or colorful frosting, and then arrange the purple colored gumdrops in the shape of a bunch of grapes on the cupcake. You can even make funny facial features using colorful gumdrops.

Candy Corns
Although candy corns are more popular in Halloween, you can use them for cupcake decorations. Ice the cupcake and arrange the candy corns vertically around the edge of the cupcake. You can even arrange them horizontally in the shape of a star or a flower with a gumdrop as the center. You can also arrange the candy corns in the shape of the alphabets of the name.

Frosting, Jam and Jelly
You can use yellow colored frosting to create smiley faces on the cupcakes and decorate it with fruit leather. As fruit leather to easy to cut in different shapes, you can use it to create different shapes like a heart, star, etc. You can even fill the center of the cupcake with jam or jelly and then decorate it with fondant or frosting. Cupcakes with freshly grated coconut and cherries or gumdrops are simply awesome.

Chocolates
You can turn a cupcake into a soccer ball, baseball or basket ball, just by using colorful icing and drawing with the help of an icing pen. You can cover the cupcake with chocolate fondant and then embellish it with fresh fruit pieces like strawberries, cherries, apples, or even nuts. You can even generously sprinkle chocolate or rainbow jimmies; use chocolates or peppermints on the fondant covered cupcake.

You can make a two or three tiered cupcake birthday cake using any of the above birthday cupcake decorating ideas. You should buy a 2-3 tiered cake stand that is easily available in stores and arrange your decorated cupcakes on them. Each cupcake can be decorated differently or in similar fashion. A tiered birthday cake will definitely be unique and attractive. Along with these cupcake decorating ideas, you can even come up with your own innovative ideas to create a unique birthday cake for the birthday party. You can try out a different combination of these cupcake decorations to adorn cupcakes and transform it into a tempting birthday cake.