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CANDY TOPPINGS AND ADDITIONS
Sprinkle tops of frosted cupcakes with sprinkles. Other candy toppings might include:
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Crushed peppermint
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Candy-coated chocolates
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Mini chocolate chips
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Jelly Beans
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Candy Corn
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Conversation hearts
Cake decorating shops or craft stores sell many cupcake picks or premade sugar decorations
that are fun, colorful, easy and perfect for a variety of themes.
FONDANT
Roll packaged, prepared fondant on a board lightly coated with cornstarch. Cut fondant into
rounds to cover the cupcakes or be creative and cut a variety of shapes using small cookie
cutters. For example:
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Cut flower petals, or a flower by cutting a ruffled round. Add green stems or leaves, as
desired.
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Frost cupcakes pink or blue. Cut fondant in the shape of tiny feet or baby bottles and
arrange on top of cupcakes for a baby shower.
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Cut fondant with small alphabet cutters to decorate with initials, names or holiday
greetings.
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Cut tiny triangles from dark colored fondant and arrange as a Jack-o’-lantern face.
TIERS, ARRANGEMENTS AND DISPLAYS
Arrange cupcakes on a cake pedestal. Better yet, stack two cake pedestals and fill each with
cupcakes. If you don’t have a cake pedestal, place a serving plate on a small bowl, a tin or
a box to make height.
Frosted cupcakes are fun to arrange into a special shape or display. For example:
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Line 16 cupcakes, all frosted in pink, in a wavy line to resemble a caterpillar. Use small
strips of licorice as legs and antenna. Add small candy eyes.
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Arrange 16 cupcakes in a rectangle to resemble a flag. Frost in red, white or blue, as
needed to create a flag. Cover those in blue with star-shaped sprinkles for the stars.
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Arrange 14 to 16 cupcakes to make a bumble bee or butterfly. Set four cupcakes in
a straight row for the body and arrange four or five cupcakes on each side as wing.
Frost with yellow with black accents for a bee or frost with pink for a butterfly.
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Gummy or Jelly candies
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Chocolate stars
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Decorating or dusting sugar
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Toasted chopped nuts
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Toasted coconut
