How should I decorate cupcakes for a teen girl's birthday?!
How should I decorate cupcakes for a teen girl's birthday?
She wants cupcakes instead of a regular cake this year, but I have no clue how I should decorate them. Her party doesn't have a specific theme, just a few favorite colors. Any ideas? Thanks :-)
P.S. Website links are also appreciated!
Answers:
Use 13 cupcakes to spell out HAPPY BIRTHDAY in pretty colors, decorate them with edible flowers and place them on a rose covered tiered cupcake tower. Hope this helps!
Feed her carrots and veggies maybe she's on a diet
I have a pastry chef friend who puts cupcakes and cookies out undecorated with all the frosting and sprinkles and stuff and lets the kids do their own decorating. She gets great responses everytime.
You could you food coloring.
Before frosting them take food coloring take and sprinbkle over the top and it you were to spilt the cupcake you would find color. Check out the website below. Shows you how to decorate cupcakes
When my daughter turned 16, I took food coloring of her favorite colors and put one drop of each on every cupcake. Then I took a toothepick and swirled it. They looked tye dyed. They were really cool and each one was different. Frost them white and then just add drops of coloring. Since the 70's seem to be back again that would be perfect and not too babyish.
Here’s a link to some very simple, but still cool looking, cupcakes.
http://www.bettycrocker.com/recipes/reci...
Here are some various types that might be worth trying. Different tastes would be awesome for a teen party. I liked these cupcakes because they were very simple looking, but very pretty.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jleighb/101...
From the same page, here are some gorgeous mini cupcakes. I really like the idea of pearlescent powder for cupcakes. That would be gorgeous if you made the cupcakes in her favorite colors and then made your own edible pearls! You would be a hero, I’m sure of it.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/minicupcake...
Here’s a cool idea for making them prior to frosting them.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/superjux/10...
Here’s a link to some cool edible glitter (you could use it for making pearls) and various other toppings to put on the cupcakes. Wilton is always good.
http://www.wilton.com/store/site/departm...
As far as the cupcakes go, I would say do various flavors and just mix it up with different favorite colors. You can try various things and put them all together. Ask your daughter what she would like. Is she wanting more refined, pretty cupcakes or cheerful, fanciful ones? Don’t stress it too much. Have fun! I’m sure whatever you do, they will be popular. Good luck and Happy Birthday to your daughter!
frost all of the cupcakes in one of the favorite colors then get the names of all of the people attending and put their first initial on the cupcake in another favorite color
Or you could just frost them in all of the favorite colors and set them up alternatively or in a pattern to make them look festive
Here are some suggestions:
Rose Cupcakes:
RECIPE INGREDIENTS:
12 mini cupcakes
White icing
Scissors
6 rolls of Fruit by the Foot fruit leather in Cherry Rage or strawberry flavor
1 roll of Fruit by the Foot fruit leather in Color by the Foot flavor
1. Frost 12 mini cupcakes with white icing.
2. To make a rose, unroll a piece of the cherry or strawberry fruit leather and divide it in half along the wavy perforated middle line. Take one of the halves and roll up about 5 inches to form the flower's center. Set the rolled strip wavy side up in the middle of a cupcake, as shown, and continue to loosely wrap the remaining fruit leather around the center at a slight angle until the flower is completed.
3. Repeat this process for the remaining flowers. (You should be able to get 2 mini roses out of each roll of fruit leather.)
4. Cut leaf shapes from the wavy edge of the Color by the Foot strip as shown, then tuck the leaves under the roses.
Flower Power Cupcake
RECIPE INGREDIENTS:
Cupcakes (made from your favorite recipe)
Yellow frosting
Colored gumdrops
Large marshmallows
1. To make one, first frost a cupcake prepared from your favorite recipe with yellow icing and place a colored gumdrop in the center. Next, set a large marshmallow on its side, press it flat with your palm, then cut it in thirds with kitchen shears. Repeat with a second marshmallow and arrange the petals around the gumdrop center.
Flower Cupcake in a Cone
RECIPE INGREDIENTS:
1 box of cake mix, any flavor
Flat-bottomed ice-cream cones
White frosting
Large gumdrop disks, such as Sunkist Gourmet Fruit Gems (one 14-ounce bag can decorate 5 cupcakes)
1. Prepare the cake batter according to the directions on the box. Fill the narrow bottom of each ice-cream cone with the batter. Set the cones on a baking sheet and transfer them to the oven, being careful not to tip them over.
2. Bake at 350° for 25 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center of a cupcake comes out clean. Let them cool, then frost the tops.
3. To make each candy flower, cut 6 wedges from the edges of a gumdrop disk and cut a green gumdrop disk into slices for leaves. Press the wedges into the middle of the cut flowers for flower centers, then arrange the candies on top of the frosted cupcakes. One box of cake mix yields 34 cupcakes (or make fewer and use the remaining batter for a small cake).
Kite Cupcake
RECIPE INGREDIENTS:
A cooled cupcake (baked from your favorite recipe)
Blue frosting
White frosting
2 sugar wafers
1. Top a cooled cupcake (baked from your favorite recipe) with a blue frosting sky and white frosting clouds.
2. Cut 2 sugar wafers as shown and set them in place for the kite, using a little frosting to hold them together. (You can use the extra pieces to create a kite on a second cupcake.)
3. Top the kite with colorful frosting, then add a red licorice tail and gel icing details.
Pictures of the following cupcakes can be found on the websites below.
Make cupcakes with icing of her favorite colors...use these colors below or mix red and blue food coloring for purple, yellow and blue for green, yellow and red for orange...you know the drill :)
INGREDIENTS
1 (18.25 ounce) package white cake mix
1/2 cup butter or margarine, softened
1/2 cup shortening
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/8 teaspoon butter flavoring (optional)
4 cups confectioners' sugar
2 tablespoons milk
1 drop red food coloring (optional)
2 drops yellow food coloring (optional)
1 drop blue food coloring (optional)
DIRECTIONS
Prepare cake mix according to package directions. Place paper or foil liners in a heart-shaped or standard muffin tin. Fill cups half full of batter. (If using a standard tin, see the tip below left to cream heart-shaped cupcakes.) Bake according to package directions for cupcakes. Cool for 10 minutes; remove from pans to wire racks to cool completely.
For frosting, cream butter and shortening in a small mixing bowl. Add vanilla and butter flavoring if desired. Add sugar, 1 cup at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in milk until light and fluffy. Divide frosting into fourths; place in flour separate bowls. Leave one bowl untinted. Add food coloring to the other three bowls; stir until well blended. Frost cupcakes. Pipe untinted frosting around edges and decorate tops
I think at that age love and romance are really a big deal, so I would decorate with a lot of hearts and kisses, xxxs, and ooos. If these cupcakes are not a surprise, why don't you ask her how she would like you to decorate them? It sounds like the 2 of you could have a lot of fun making them together. You could call a great bakery for ideas. Good luck!
candy on the top
well if it is based on favourite colours then put coloured icing on the cupcakes but only colours that are her favourite and maybe have some written words on there lik party time in a different colour that stands out from the icing well im a 16 yr old female and i think i wouldnt mind that if i was 13-14
Cupcakes are so "IN " these days. Thanks to the local bakeries such as Sprinkles in Beverly Hills and Magnolia Bakery in NY. I'd say you can't go wrong with Red Velvet Cupcakes. Keeping decorations simple is always the way to go.
Check out http://www.sprinklescupcakes.com/...
use sprinkles, frosting, and food coloring to decorate the cupcakes...if you want...go out and buy those tooth picks that spell out happy birthday...but i think it's also fun if you just make the cupcakes and give a couple to every kid and let them decorate it however they want...
Top with whipped cream and a chocolate drizzle.