Vanilla Cupcakes for a Wedding

Buttercream beaten with sugar is one of the most traditional ways to decorate cupcakes and cakes. You can add a touch of flavor with vanilla extract and color with dyes to achieve a cupcakes flashy.

Ingredients:

1.- 250 gr. unsalted butter at room temperature
2.- 250 gr. icing sugar
3.- 3 - 4 tablespoons of milk

4.- 1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract

Preparation procedure

1.- Sift the icing sugar.

2.- Add the butter, milk, and vanilla extract.

3.- Beat the mixture at low speed for 1 minute until the ingredients are integrated.
4.- Beat for 5 minutes at high speed.

In summer days we can add more sugar in the buttercream for a harder consistency. Go to this link to see more information.

Coconut Cupcakes for a Baptism

Decorating cupcakes with coconut frosting is a wise choice for parties such as, baptisms, and weddings where the color white predominate representing the purity. If we also select the coconut flavor not only remains perfect with the decoration, but also the flavors are integrated into the event.

Ingredients:

1.- 300 gr. Butter 2.- 200 gr. Vegetable shortening 3.- 450 gr. Icing sugar 4.- 2 tablespoons of water 5.- 1/4 teaspoon of salt 6.- 25 gr. Coconut grated

Preparation procedure

1. Beat the butter and vegetable shortening at low speed for 1 minute. 2.- Add the Icing sugar little by little and beat at medium-high speed for 3 minutes. 3.- Add the salt and the coconut grated and continue beating until the ingredients are incorporated. 4.- Add the water and beat for another minute.

If you want a softer buttercream, add a couple of tablespoons of water

Cupcakes for a Mickey Mouse Party

Decorate Cupcakes with fondant or buttercream the result will be the same, they will be very attractive and delicious, the variety of flavors even will attract adults attention. Mickey Mouse is the favorite character of the little children in the house. Decorate cupcakes with this character will make them very happy the day of the party.

Mickey Mouse Cupcakes decorated with tangarine, Oreo, and Nutella Buttercream

The table decorated with Sweets for all

Cupcakes with Oreo Buttercream

Oreo cookies are very famous and everyone likes them, today we are going to use them in our recipe. An irresistible Oreo buttercream for fans of these cookies.

Ingredients:

1.- 4 oreo cookies 40 gr. Approx.
2.- 200 gr. Icing sugar
3.- 80 gr. Cream cheese
4.- 60 gr. Butter
5.- 35 gr. Oreo Cream
6.- 15 ml Vanilla essence

Preparation procedure

1.- Separate the white part of the cookies and reserve it.
2. Crush the black cookies and reserve.
3.- In a bowl add the butter, the cream cheese, the cream of oreo and beat with a mixer until there is an integrated mixture.
4.- Add the teaspoon of vanilla essence and beat.
5.- Add the crushed oreo biscuits and beat until well blended.
6.- Add the glass sugar little by little with a spoon and beat.
7.- Once you get the desired texture decorate the cupcakes.

You can add some colorant gel to the cream for attractive results

Cupcakes with a fondant daisy

What better time than the spring to decorate ours sweet cupcakes with flowers. We can decorate them for birthday parties, baby showers, and for any special occasion. We can use different colors and flavors giving a spring touch with a daisy flower.

      Cupcakes decorated with tangarine and lemon Buttercream flavor

In the market you can find different types of fonfant cutters, in this case we used a special cutter for fondant with built-in ejector.

Cupcakes decorated for a personalized gift or for aspecial event

A cutter that helps us make a perfect daisy flower, to give the finishing touch to the decoration of our cupcakes

Decorating Cupcakes with Paper Toppers

In the market we can find paper toppers for our cupcakes in almost all the designs we need. The paper toppers are designed and printed, ready to use, we find children's themes but also for celebrations such as Christmas and Halloween. With the paper toppers we can decorate our cupcakes in a simple way and also give a touch of joy and fun at the party.

Paper toppers are the alternative we have for those times when we do not have enouh time to decorate the cupcakes or just do not have the ingredients to decorate them.

Paper Toppers for children parties

Cupcakes are an excellent sweet snack that delights children and adults and we can also give them that fun touch with paper toppers

Cupcakes decorated with Minnie Mouse silhouette

Children in the birthday parties enjoy the flavors, shapes and colors of cupcakes, because they know the decoration characters. Cupcakes call your attention and they can not resist.

There are many of ways to decorate cupcakes for a Minnie Mouse party, but when we have the cutter with the silhouette of that little mouse, We do not hesitate to begin to knead the fondant and shape silhouettes charming Minnie Mouse.

Cupcakes decorated with Fondant and Buttercream strawberry flavor

Cupcakes are the perfect complement in the dessert table

In the market we can find metal and plastic cutters, there are different shapes and sizes. Cutters help us refine the shapes we want to give the fondant.



Cupcakes for a Peppa Pig Party

Now the star of the birthday party is Peppa Pig who is known among children by the television cartoon series. If children in the birthday party has less than 5 years, sure they love Peppa Pig and these Cupcakes will call their attention and will want to eat them and play with them at the same time.

Cupcakes with decoration fondant show the most important elements in the series of Peppa Pig, such as the blue sky, clouds, sun, flowers, the house of Peppa Pig, the George´s toy "the Dinosaur", Peppa Pig and her brother George in the mud puddles,  and some balloons for the birthday party.

The cupcakes were part of the decoration in the dessert table



Peppa Pig is an animated television series with episodes of five minutes. It is an educational series that besides providing entertainment to children, among other things also teaches them familiare values, ​​and behaviors in society.

Cupcakes with Christmas Sprinkles

Any excuse is good to taste a sweet cupcake and now is time to celebrate Christmas and what better way than with a shaped cupcakes Christmas tree.

Those cupcakes are decorated with buttercream flavored rum raisin, and although the cream is delicious, today my attention was stolen by those Sprinckles of Christmas that I used to decorate the cupcakes, leaves and red holly balls were complemented with a fondant little star. Sprinkles are small sugar figures that are used to decorate cakes, cookies, cupcakes, etc.

Cupcakes decorating the Christmas table

Cupcakes decorated with scent of orange blossom Buttercream and Christmas Sprinkles

Sprinkles is a famous bakery in USA with The World's First Cupcake ATM dispenses freshly baked cupcakes and cookies.

Baby Faces Cupcakes for a Baby Shower Party

When the arrival of a baby approaches, they begin to flutter the ideas in the heads of the mother and her friends. Her priority is start with the preparations for the Baby Shower Party and Plan a Candy table with delicious Cupcakes.

Cupcakes filled with tangerine buttercream

The roller helps us to knead the fondant, we must ensure that it is a non-stick material. In the market we can find rollers of different materials, silicone, nylon and plastic, those are the best option to work with the fondant more comfortably. The roller is used to extend the fondant and to have a perfect finish in the shapes we need to mold.

Cupcakes in the candy table

The wooden rollers are not suitable to work with fondant because 
it will stay stuck!

Witch Hat Cupcakes for Halloween

Halloween is the perfect excuse to bake cupcakes. The traditional festivals are full of joy and what better way to spend a good time eating a sweet dessert. This time a witch hat to decorate the cupcakes in a tonight as terrifying as it is Halloween.

Sometimes the fondant is too hard to knead, because depends on the temperature. That usually happens in cold weather. In those cases we can separate the fondant in small pieces and introduce a few seconds in the microwave, so soon acquire a warmer temperature and will be more easy to mold.

Witch Cupcakes to celebrate Halloween Party

The history of Halloween witches

An ancient legend that the old witches were meeting twice during the year: April 30 and 31 October. Satan realized the call and they came mounted on broomsticks, to share spells and black wisdom in those ghoulish festivities.  The word "witch" derives from the old Saxon word "wicca, or wise". And it was thought that witches, being possessors of magic, also had the highest wisdom. Today Halloween night is also recognized by all " the night of witches".

Maya the Bee in Fondant Cupcakes

Decorate cupcakes with attractive insects for children has been fun. Today the colorful insect Maya the Bee is the protagonist, this beautiful bee is used to decorate the children parties.

The technique Modeling with fondant is not difficult, however, to make perfect and well-defined fondant shapes are required a lot of practice to get skill and perfection.

Fondant should be well kneaded. When the fondant to stretch and it is elastic enough, we can use it and begin to do the shapes. If the fondant is well kneaded, it will prevent cracking at the time of modeling.

Cupcakes in the candy table

The Story of the Bee Maya

Maya is a bee born in a bee hive during internal unrest: the hive is dividing itself into two new colonies. Maya is raised by her teacher, Mrs. Cassandra. Despite Mrs. Cassandra's warnings, Maya wants to explore the wide world and commits the unforgivable crime of leaving the hive. During her adventures, Maya, now in exile, befriends other insects and braves dangers with them. Maya is prisoner by hornets, the bees' sworn enemies.

Prisoner of the hornets, Maya learns of a hornet plan to attack her native hive. Maya is faced with the decision to either return to hive and suffer her due punishment, saving the hive, or leaving the plan unannounced, saving herself but destroying the hive. Maya makes the decision to return. In the hive, she announces the coming attack and is, totally unexpectedly, pardoned. The forewarned bees triumph over the hornet attack force. Maya, now a heroine of the hive, becomes a teacher, like Mrs. Cassandra and shares her experiences and wisdom with the future generation.

Special Cupcakes

I enrolled in a course in creative pastries "Todo Cupcakes" to learn new techniques and combination of flavors to make a colorful, delicious and professional Cupcakes.

I've been learning a little about the secret of the cupcakes from the hand of a talented girl named Julia Guarch. She is famous in networks by its beautiful pastry work, we can see their work on her web postreadiccion. It never hurts to do a course in which you can learn, improve techniques, learn the latest trends in confectionery, meet people and most importantly have a good time.

Today, the world of pastry is very large, everyone wants to make beautiful cakes, funny cupcakes, original cake pops, perfect macarons and stop counting. There are so many options in the bakery, so at each event or meeting you can surprise and you may be surprised with the creativity we see in all the desserts.

I have a long way to go to achieve a professional cupcake, only it be achieved with experience, enthusiasm and love of art!

Baby Shower Fondant Cutters

In the market there are a variety of fondant cutters with different sizes and shapes to decorate cupcakes with fondant. This time we will use cutters with the shape of baby bottles, horses, baby clothes and strollers to decorate some cupcakes. This type of decoration is aimed at baby shower parties or meetings where the arrival of a new baby is celebrated.

Fondant cutters are necessary tools to making well-defined shapes in cupcakes decorations. It is very important hydrate the fondant with vegetable shortening, it help to get a most flexible fondant and also It is used to lubricate the fondant cutters.

Vegetable shortening

It is used to hydrate the fondant, making it more flexible and also it help us prevent sticking to the work surface.

Cupcakes change dramatically when are decorated with fondant. When we use our fondant cutters we can play with colors and get different results.

Fondant cutters help us make flat figures, if we want to create figures embossed can be done with the fondant molds!

Ladybugs in Fondant Cupcakes

We continued working with the fondant. This time the decoration is related to that tiny insect that many parents choose to celebrate the first birthday of their babies. The ladybug is an insect that is characterized by its red color and  black spots. We can buy the fondant red or we can dye the fondant with dyes.

Gel Dyes

Fondant should be dyed with gel dye. It is not recommended use the liquid dye because softens the mass. In the market there are a variety of brands of edible dyes, we can select the one that best suits our needs. We can keep trying until we find the brand that we like.

Ladybugs decorating the party table

Ladybugs are very attractive, their spots and their color attracts the attention of children and adults. His biggest fans are farmers because that ladybugs have an intense appetite. They eat insects and help to keep protected crops. In many countries, the cute ladybugs are considered symbols of good luck.

Cupcakes for a Hello Kitty Party

Hello Kitty Cupcakes decorated with Fondant to celebrate a little girl first birthday. Children would like to try a sweet cupcake at the party. The fondant formed from water, sugar and glucose becomes our ally when we cover our cupcakes and make them fun and attractive to children.



To make those cute Hello Kitty faces just need fondant, coloring gel, edible market, Hello Kitty shape cutter and roll to extend the fondant.

1. First knead the fondant until it is completely elastic.
2. Dye the fondant with gel dye.
3. Extend the fondant with a roll in a flat surface.
4. Cut the Hello Kitty shapes with the special cutter.
5. Cut the ties or small flowers to complement.
6. Paints eyes and nose with edible markets.

Cupcakes are part of the decoration in the sweet table

The lovely Hello Kitty produced by the Japanese company Sanrio and designed by Yuko Shimizu has won the hearts of girls of all time. Many other cartoon are imposed today, but Hello Kitty is always very close to us. Hello Kitty is so famous that not only found in toy stores but is also in theme parks, restaurants, even in Asia is the Hello Kitty airplane.