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Interesting Ideas for Decorating Cup Cakes

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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!

How to Display Fall Foods in A Decorative Way

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Autumn is the season to host some holiday supper and cocktail parties. It is nice to try and make an effort when it comes to presenting foods in the spirit of the season that is currently happening.

One of the most rustic elements that can be used to display fall foods, especially appetizers and desserts is cheese boards. You can get cheese boards of all types including ones made out of oak, pine, maple and cherry wood. Ornate cheese boards with some carving in them look great set out on a table and topped with a knife and hunks of cheese.

You can intersperse these wooden boards with ones made from other substances such as slate, marble and other types of stone. Stay away from plastics as they do not fit in with the season well. Wooden bowls and wooden glass coasters and platters made from tree stumps are also a nice touch. Pottery Barn is a great place to find these types of things.

Vintage trays in silver, nickel and copper look great with the wooden cheese trays. You can pair golden flatware with a vintage silver tray for interest. Consider using vintage chafing dishes with burners beneath to serve up soups and foods. Little copper pots for dipping or even a copper or gold toned fondue pot work well as an Autumn themes.

If you do use ceramic or glass make sure it is well embellished with images of flowers and leaves. You can get this sort of thing at Pier 1 Imports and even at Walmart. Even your teapot or coffee pot can have a floral theme. A nice big ceramic tureen filled with a tummy warming autumn soup made out of rich root vegetables makes a great centerpiece for a fall feast as well.

Foods also look good on rich colors such as aubergine, golds and dark chocolates. Other great colors for fall presentations are orange and gold. Those decorated with leaves and flowers are also suitable for the season. Look for flatware or linens decorated with fall themes like acorns, chestnuts and oak leaves.

Velveteen fabrics also suit a fall vibe. For a really elegant touch simply have the fabric drape over the table and touch the floor. To create a beautiful centerpiece, simply add a vibrant floral arrangement. You can also use vases made out of birch bark and red and golden votive candles to give your table an even warmer fall ambience.