Treat your dad with some delicious sports ball cupcakes for Father’s Day! Pick his favorite sport or use several as shown in the photo. Use any cupcake recipe, then decorate accordingly: Orange frosting for basketballs, white frosting for golf balls, soccer balls, and baseballs. Yellow for tennis balls. Give you cupcake a little shine, with Fancy Flours shimmering sparkling and sanding sugars, available at www.fancyflours.com. Add the finishing touch with royal icing lines and stripes to create the look of a sports ball! Use your imagination here. Try using red licorice ropes for baseball lines and brown m&m’s for soccer balls. Go a step further and slip your cupcakes into a sports themed cupcake liner before or after baking (@ fancyflours.com).
These cupcake cones are sure to be a hit! Use them for any occasion…birthdays, showers, childrens’ school treats and more!
To make Cupcake Cones you will need:
Plain Ice cream Cones (about 24)
Your favorite Cupcake Recipe
Frosting to cover 12- 24 cupcakes
Quins or Sprinkles
Mix cupcakes as directed on recipe. Pre heat oven as directed.
Use cupcake pan to sturdy icecream cones, and place one cone into each spot on the pan.
Pour batter in to cone until about 3/4 full.
Bake as directed.
If cones begin to get browned on the edges you may carefully place aluminum foil around the edges to prevent any burning.
Let cool. Frost as desired and decorate with any assortment of quins, sugars or sprinkles, available at www.fancyflours.com
Perfect for a Memorial Day or 4th of July get together, this cupcake tower is sure to WOW any crowd.
You will need 1 large styrofoam cone (at a local craft store) and around 24 3-6″ wooden dowels, plus toothpicks for the fruit.
Fresh fruit (red and blue berries, preferred)
Cupcakes can be baked and frosted as usual, however a more dense cupcake will work better for attaching to the tower. Try using a pound cake, chocolate cake or carrot cake for best results. Frost with buttercream or cream cheese frosting using a star tip.
Affix cupcakes to tower by first sticking the wooden dowels firmly into the styrofoam tower. Place them evenly apart, making sure to be able to affix fruit in between each cupcake. Attach cupcakes to wooden dowels by pushing cupcake onto dowel (you may need to cut a small hole in the bottom of the cupcake wrapper (or don’t use any wrappers to avoid this step).
Now affix each strawberry, blueberry or other piece of fruit to a toothpick and push toothpick into styrofoam, in between each cupcakes. You can make fruit kabobs as well and place a few pieces of fruit onto each toothpick.Make sure to completely fill up styrofoam tower so there is no syrofoam showing. Add sprigs of fresh mint to complete the look.
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Summer is here! Why not spruce up an ordinary round cake and turn it into a darling basket of flowers! This cake can be made with a standard two layer 8-9″ cake pan recipe.
After baking and cooling your cakes, apply a layer of frosting on the bottom layer. Place top layer on top of frosting layer. To get the look of a basket handle, use a serrated knife to cut a triangular shaped piece out of each side of the second layer (as seen in the photo). Discard or (eat!) the cut-out pieces.
Apply additional frosting to the entire cake. Make sure all sides are covered.
Next, using additional icing attach an assortment of sugar and royal icing flower decorations to “fill up the basket”. Find several edible sugar and icing flowers at www.fancyflours.com. For the green “grass”, mix coconut in a bowl with a small amount of green food coloring. Apply to cake to fill up basket.
For the final touch use a fork to create the basket weave on your frosting. Run the fork horizontally in a 1-2″ section. Then move down and run it vertical in a 1-2″ section. Continue this pattern until the entire cake has the basket weave.
Display on cake plate and enjoy!
