Cupcake Decorating Made Easy

Cupcake decorating can be fun. Especially when you're creative and you know the right techniques, the cupcakes can be decorated with limitless designs and colors.

Of course, the first few attempts may not turn out the way you expected it, but with practice, you will achieve the desired results.

Here are some of the ways you can use to decorate your cupcake.

Working With Icing

The most commonly used for cake decorating. There are two types of icing, one is buttercream icing and the other is royal icing.

Basic color is white, but by using coloring, you can turn it into any color you want to achieve the design you want. The thickness must be controlled, however, to achieve smooth consistency so that the design stays on the cupcake.

You can refer to our icing recipe or look at icing designs to decorate your cupcakes.

Want to be more creative?

Take a look at these creative ways to decorate your cupcakes using icing.

Working With Fondant

Fondant is also a form of icing, but hardens when cooled and can be kept. When you need to use it, you can reheat it and simply pour over the cupcakes and let it cool.

The result will be a smooth surfaced cupcake and decorating will be easier from this point.

Fondant can also be rolled or folded when it is in its 'soft' state. So, it can be used as a topping for the cupcake.

Working With Marzipan

Marzipan is like edible clay. It is made of sugar and ground almonds. Can be made into any color and molded into any shape, up to your creativity.

They last long, too.

For the recipe to make marzipan, you can click here.

Also, feel free to browse our marzipan modelling tutorials on how to make simple objects like carrots, strawberrys and others.

Working With Gumpaste

Gumpaste is also like modelling clay. Can be molded into any desired shapes like flowers or ribbons for decorating purposes.

When it dries, it becomes hard and brittle. So when accidentally dropped, it may break. When it is hardened, it can also be painted on.

They also last quite long, too.

Other useful resources...

• Find out the utensils used for baking your cupcakes here.
  Utensils used for baking, decorating and serving....including cupcake wrappers, cupcake stands, cupcake liners and others.

• Look at some amazing decorating books here.
  My recommended books on cupcake decorating that are filled with awesome ideas.

Watch related videos...

Find useful tips and techniques in this cupcake videos page on the basics of decorating cupcakes.

How to handle icing, how to make pastry bags and many more.

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