Christmas Cupcakes

Try this very different idea for Christmas gifts. How do Christmas cupcakes decorated like a Christmas ball decoration sound? Use the baubles for inspiration for your cupcake decoration ideas and recreate the design of the ball on your cupcake. Make a special little cake for each of your guests and give them the matching decoration to keep.

By using glace icing or Royal icing this will give a more shiny finish to your Christmas cupcake decoration. Silver cachous are particularly attractive for the theme of Christmas and will come in handy as well as colored fondant or marzipan.

You could also buy a set of plain round Christmas ball decorations and make your own designs on the plain balls. This will make it easier to match your cupcake decorations. Let your imagination run wild. Here are a few ideas to get you going - the traditional holly, silver beads, jewels, polka dots in bright Christmas colours, glitter. There are many sweet alternatives to use on your cupcake such as M&Ms, jelly sweets, food coloring as well as those mentioned previously.

Christmas Cupcake Decorations

Decorating Christmas cupcakes can be a fun way to inspire your child's artistic ability. You can allow your kids to make their own custom cupcakes because most of them would like to give a special finishing touch to their cupcakes and create fantastic centerpiece. Kids often feel excited to decorate the cupcakes and give them a personal touch. There are several ways they can make a plain cupcake look attractive.

Christmas Cupcake Recipe

With Christmas approaching the search is on for pretty cupcake decoration ideas. The choice these days is limitless.

You can have everything with pretty frosting dots to sparkling sugar, chewy candies, and fondant flourishes. Take white butter cream or cream cheese frosting and add colours to make cupcake toppers or get colored fondant and carve out fancy shapes using cookie cutters, fondant tools and a knife.

Despite all the effort, let's face it that some designs and flavours will be far more appealing than others.

Red Velvet Cupcakes

Red velvet cupcakes are tasty and easy to prepare. With their bold color, you will surely get enticed with its creamy frosting and toppings.Some may get the impression that red velvet cupcakes are quite difficult to prepare. In coming up with an enticing and tasty cupcake, you will need the following ingredients: 60 grams unsalted butter, 150 grams caster sugar, 10 grams cocoa powder, 1 large egg, 120 ml buttermilk, ½ teaspoon vanilla extract, 20 ml red food coloring, 150 grams plain flour, ½ teaspoon salt, ½ teaspoon bicarb soda, 1 ½ teaspoon white wine vinegar. For cream cheese frosting, you will need the following ingredients: 125 grams cream cheese, 300 grams icing sugar and 50 grams unsalted butter.

Red Velvet Cupcakes Recipe

I first made this Red Velvet cupcake recipe for a wedding cake tasting for a friend. The cake was wonderful, however, I have made some tweaks and additions that I think really make these cupcakes superb. The addition of extra chocolate emboldens the cupcakes' flavors and leaves the final product a gorgeous, deep red that is as luxurious as its' name. I advocate adjusting your recipes to your own tastes. Feel free to add more or less of the flavoring, adjust the amount of red dye you use. Adding just half an ounce of the dye will brighten your cupcakes in an instant for any festive occasion! If you prefer something even more decadent a filling can always be made for the center of each cupcake. Chocolate ganache, Bavarian cream, or even the cream cheese filling make a decadent center that amp up this recipe. Just use a 10 inch feather weight piping bag with tip 230, and you have utterly sublime cupcakes that will enthrall any crowd.

The Cream Cheese frosting is the perfect compliment to your Red Velvet cupcakes. The perfect combination of cream cheese and sugar gives this frosting a subtle and elegant flavor that enhances the flavors of the cupcake.