Decorating cup cakes has become so much of an art that is it almost like fashion couture. Here are some interesting and offbeat ideas for decorating them.

Have you ever tried decorating Burger Cupcakes. These are decorated to look just like a humburger. You can putthem together using plain cupcakes yousing the ones lightly sprinkled with sesame seeds for the buns, a chocolate cupcake latyer for the meet, yellow fondaont and icing for the cheese and a bit of red and green icing for ketchup and pickles.

Cupcakes themed after cartoon characters are also very popular. You can use fondant and icing to create faces on the cakes. You can include characters like the Cookie Monster, Batman and the Smiley Face.

You can also use cupcakes to build shapes. Aligatores, snakes and caterpillars lend themselves especially well to this.

You can also make an edible cup cake tree by placing htem on cake tiers until they reach your desired shape and size.

Cupcakes are well suited to every type of holiday theme that you can imagine as well. You can decorate them in red and green for Christmas, decorate them to look like pumpkin faces for Halloween and make stars and stripes out of icing for Independence day.

It is also quite impressive to write on the cupcakes. For a wedding you can spell out the name of the happy couple on the cupcake. You can also use them for an anniversary but spelling out the date of the wedding.

Here are some tips for making cup cakes so that you have a good “canvas” to work from thm.
• Never fill your cupcake tins more than half full before baking
• Spraying the cups with non stick oil first really helps
• Mix the cupcake batter lightly to avid chewy7 cupcakes
• Make sure your ingredients are room temperature
• Use a toothpick to make sure the center of the cakes are done
• Use a piping bag to ice the cakes
• Use a flimsy rubber spatula to ice the cakes.
• Make sure the cupcakes are cool before you frost them!
• Keep a light touch with the food coloring as it can alter the taste of the cake if you use too much!

Keep in mind too that vanilla frosting can be made into any color you like. Use food coloring to make it last. To make colored sugar or coconut simply place it in a bag with a few drops of food coloring and shake it vigourously. It’s not just icing that benefits from a soak in food coloring!