Birthday cupcakes definitely add up to fun and are sure easy to make. There are several ideas and recipes that can help you make the finest cupcakes in town. These cakes are perfect for birthdays and even functions. Simply follow the recipe below and you’ll never go wrong with your birthday celebration.

Small cupcakes

The following are the ingredients for baking small cupcakes: 2-3 eggs, 200 grams self-raising flour, 50 grams margarine, half teaspoon of baking powder and 50 grams caster sugar.

Combine margarine and sugar in a bowl and mix them together until it gets fluffy. Beat the eggs and add it gradually into the mixture.

Mix the flour and the baking power. Combine the mixtures altogether until consistency is light. You should be able to achieve a liquid like mixture.

Bake the individual cupcakes for about 20 minutes. As for the icing, sift 175 grams of icing sugar and add 1 tablespoon of water. Stir the mixture until icing gets smooth.

Once cupcakes are cooled, splotch a little amount of the icing mixture on top each cupcake. Smoothen the icing on the top of the cupcake. Adorn the cupcakes with jelly diamonds, angelica, chocolate buttons, dolly mixtures, jelly babies and other edible goodies to make it more attractive. You can also use glace cherries, vanilla essence and desiccated coconut for its flavoring. To make it more appealing, you can use different colored icing. Another brilliant idea is to form a pyramid using these cupcakes. You stick each cupcake on top of the other using frosted icing.

Although traditional cakes like black forest, chocolate cakes and cherry coated cakes may sound enticing, still nothing beats the glory of birthday cupcakes.

When decorating birthday cupcakes, you can choose from a wide variety of trimmings. These include candy corns, chocolate jimmies, icing fondant, fresh fruits and nuts, grated coconut and jelly. These ingredients as well as other edible cake decorations are made available in stores.

Gumdrops could be considered as the best trimming for birthday cupcakes decoration. Made available in different colors, you can make use of them to come up with different designs along with colorful frostings. For a more appealing touch, you could make use of these colored gumdrops to make facial expressions.

Chocolates are also one of the most in demand trimmings in cupcake decoration. You can simply turn your birthday cupcakes into baseball using colorful icing. You can coat the cupcakes with chocolate fondant and adorn them with fresh fruits, nuts and jam. You can also dust over chocolate jimmies or peppermints on top of your birthday cupcakes.

Another fun idea for your birthday cupcakes is using colored frostings for smiley faces. You can decorate it with fruit leather as well as jellies. Also, you can come up with different shapes like heart and star out of that fruit leather. Try filling the center part of your cupcake with jelly or jam. Another few decorations you could use on your cupcakes is grated coconut and cherries. This simply tastes overwhelming especially to kids.