• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer
Cater For You - Food Packaging, Plastic Glasses and Baking

Cater For You

Industry News & Blogs

Tel : 01494 511950
E : [email protected]
Cater For You News Blog

  • Cups and Glasses
        • Plastic Glasses
          • Plastic Pint And Half Pint Glasses
          • Plastic Prosecco Glasses
          • Plastic Wine Glasses
          • Plastic Martini Glasses
          • Plastic Highball Glasses
          • Plastic Gin Glasses
          • Other Plastic Glasses
          • Plastic Tea and Coffee Cups
          • Polycarbonate Glasses
          • Plastic Shot Glasses
        • Disposable Plastic Glasses
          • Disposable Plastic Half And Pint Glasses
          • Disposable Wine Glasses
          • Disposable Plastic Champagne Glasses
          • Disposable Plastic Shot Glasses
          • Other Disposable Plastic Glasses
        • Reusable Plastic Glasses
          • Unbreakable Plastic Half & Pint Glasses
          • Reusable Plastic Half & Pint Glasses
          • Unbreakable Wine Glasses
          • Reusable & Polycarbonate Champagne Glasses
          • Reusable Plastic Shot Glasses
        • Disposable Cups
          • Disposable Coffee Cups And Lids
          • Disposable White Paper Cups
          • Disposable Black Coffee Cups
          • Cold Drink Paper Cups
          • Plastic Smoothie Cups
          • Hot Drink Sundries
          • Teas, Coffees And Hot Chocolate
          • Straws
  • Food Packaging
        • Take Away Food Boxes & Containers
          • Aluminium Foil Take Away Trays
          • Plastic Food Take Away Containers
          • Hot Food Boxes / Chip Scoops
          • Fast Food Packaging
          • Bagasse Take Away Trays
          • Noodle Boxes
          • Pizza Boxes
          • Paper Soup Containers
          • Fish And Chip Packaging
          • Burger Box Packaging
          • Burger Wrapping Paper
        • Cold Food Packaging
          • Sandwich Wedge Packaging
          • Paper Bags For Sandwiches
          • Sandwich Catering Trays
          • Plastic Salad Bowls With Lids
          • Rectangular Salad Containers With Lids
          • Cardboard Salad Containers
          • Bento And Nibble Boxes
          • Baguette Packaging
          • Tortilla Wrap Packaging
        • Food Manufacturer Packaging
          • Plastic Juice Bottles
          • Ready Meal Packaging Trays
          • Deluxe Microwave Containers
          • Polystyrene Trays
          • Tamper Evident Containers
          • Deli Pots / Sauce Pots
          • Sushi Trays And Lids
          • Foil Trays And Pie Dishes
          • Foil Tray Sealing System
        • Paper Bags For Food
          • Takeaway Handled Paper Bags
          • White Sulphite Paper Bags
          • Kraft Brown Paper Bags
          • Film Fronted Paper Bags
          • Greaseproof Paper Bags
          • Polypropylene Bags
          • Snappy Bags
          • Plastic Carrier Bags
          • Kraft & Printed Takeaway Paper Bags
          • Candy Striped Paper Bags
          • Block Bottom Polypropylene Bags
        • Packaging Labels
  • Baking and Cake Decorating
        • Bakery Boxes And Containers
          • Cake Boards And Cards
          • Cake Boxes
          • Heavy Duty Corrugated Cake Boxes
          • Plastic Cake Containers
          • Cake Slice Boxes
          • Cookie Boxes And Bags
        • Cupcakes And Muffins
          • Cupcake Boxes
          • Plastic Cupcake Boxes
          • Individual Cupcake Boxes
          • Cupcake Cases
          • Tulip Muffin Cases
        • Cake Tins and Bakeware
          • Cake Baking Tins
          • Silicone Bakeware
        • Cake Decorating
          • Piping Bags
          • Icing / Decorating Tips
          • Icing Modelling Tools
          • Cake Candles
          • Cutter Sets
  • Party & Tableware
        • Disposable Tableware
          • Platters
          • Paper Napkins
          • Banquet Roll
          • Paper Plates
          • Paper Bowls
          • Plastic Plates
          • Paper Doilies Placemats and Tray Papers
        • Disposable Cutlery
          • Bagasse and Paper Cutlery
          • Wooden Cutlery
        • Party Food Boxes
  • Disposable Catering Supplies
        • Film, Foil And Baking Papers
          • Aluminium Foil
          • Cling Film
          • Bakewell Non-Stick Baking Paper
          • EDGE Cling Film And Foil Dispenser
          • Greaseproof Paper
        • Kitchen Disposables
          • Disposable Vinyl Gloves
          • Centre Feed Rolls
          • Oven Bags
          • Safe2Go Ovenable Pan Liners
        • Other Catering Products
          • Food / Ingredient Bins
          • Polycarbonate Food Storage Containers
          • Airtight Food Storage Containers
          • Mixing Bowls And Colanders
          • Thermometers
          • Till Rolls
          • Restaurant Food Order Pads
          • Araven Sauce Dispensers
          • Portion Pal And FIFO Bottles
          • Chefs Hats
        • Wooden Sticks And Skewers
  • Eco Friendly
        • Eco Friendly Food Packaging
          • Compostable Bread Bags & Produce Bags
          • Compostable Meat Trays
          • Eco Food Trays and Lids
          • Eco Gourmet Food Containers
          • Eco Soup Containers
          • Eco Salad Boxes
        • Home Compostable Packaging
        • Eco Cups and Glasses
          • Eco Coffee Cups
          • Eco Plastic Half and Pint Glasses
          • Eco Plastic Cold Cups
        • Other Eco Products
          • Compostable Bin Bags
  • More
    • Janitorial
      • Plastic Bin Bags
      • Cleaning Products
      • Toilet Roll and Dispenser
      • Kitchen Roll
      • Paper Hand Towels
    • Special Offers
  • Xmas Packaging
You are here: Home / Product News and Ideas / Cupcake Decorating Ideas for Beginners

Cupcake Decorating Ideas for Beginners

7th October 2022 by Andy Watts

Cupcake Decorating for Beginners

Cupcakes are designed to stand out and grab your attention. This means that when you’re decorating cupcakes, you can be as creative and artistic as you like with the toppings – more is more! It’s huge fun. Plus, channelling all your energy into intricate decoration can be very therapeutic.

But professional cupcakes can look intimidating with all their perfect peaks and fancy sugar-spun decorations — what can you create at home? Take a look at the Instagrammable cupcake decorating ideas below which are easy to make but go way beyond a glacé cherry…

Easy Cupcake Decorating Ideas

Buttercream Roses

A buttercream rose makes a very elegant decoration. Simply use a piping bag with a flower decorating tip to pipe a spiral from the centre of the cupcake to the outer perimeter. Once you’ve circled around the top of the cake from the middle outwards you’ll have a beautiful rose design. You can make a dozen in different shades of pink and group them together as a ‘bouquet’ display, adding some green iced cupcakes around the edge for ‘foliage’. 

Watercolour Inspired Cupcake

Little works of modern art, these cupcakes are made to look like paint palettes — a fabulous abstract cupcake design for an art lover. And it’s just so easy. Just colour three or more icing bowls in different ‘paint’ colours. Then using a palette knife wipe small daubs of frosted ‘paint’ across each cupcake, alternating the colours as you go. The heavily textured effect adds to the eye-catching design.

Fondant Icing

Fondant icing gives you the opportunity to get creative by cutting, shaping and modelling. If you’d like to focus solely on the design then you can buy ready-made coloured fondant icing from a supermarket. A smooth fondant icing topper on a fairy cake or cupcake provides a blank canvas to add sugar paste embellishments. Fondant icing cupcakes have a much neater look compared to buttercream, so they’re often used for more formal occasions.

Sprinkle Dipped 

This is a quick and easy way to make a cupcake look professionally finished. Instead of shaking the sprinkles over the top of the cupcake with sprinkles going everywhere, this decorating hack offers a sleeker look. Pour the sprinkles into a bowl and then immediately after you have frosted your cupcake dip the cupcake in the sprinkles, slowly turning the cupcake around so that you get even coverage. 

Chocolate Decorations 

Melted and then set chocolate designs like shards and fancy squiggles provide height and dimension and look really impressive, but actually, they’re super easy to make. Simply draw or trace a basic shape onto some parchment/baking paper. Keep the designs as easy as possible bearing in mind that you’ll be going over them in melted chocolate. Consider shapes like hearts, numbers and letters. Then using a piping bag loaded up with some melted chocolate, carefully trace over the designs. Put the designs in the fridge to set and they’ll be ready to use when cooled and set. 

Fruit and Berries

Fruit on top of cupcakes provides a fresh, bright patisserie look to the cakes. For berries consider raspberries, strawberries, cherries and blackberries. Blueberries can also look really striking next to raspberries and strawberries. And you can add a mint leaf or two to pull in some green. Red velvet cupcakes look particularly fabulous topped with decadent strawberries to match (ideal for Valentine’s day). You don’t have to just stick to berries, there are other fruit toppings, but be mindful of the size of the fruit. You don’t want to overload the cupcake. Ideas include slices of peach, chinese lantern fruit (physalis), dried banana chips, kiwi, grapes and sliced fresh figs. Top tip: don’t place the fruit on until the last minute or the fruit and the icing will go sticky and mushy!

Animals 

Animal cupcakes are particularly fun when you are baking with children. Check out these ideas:

Zebras — to create a zebra’s long face, cut a slit in the top of the cupcake and insert a vanilla wafer. 

Tigers — use an icing gel pen for the stripes.

Penguins — use white icing to paint a cashew shape onto an Oreo cookie to make a penguin (front view of the penguin). Add a candied orange slice to the icing for the beak and tiny blobs of black gel icing for the eyes.

Lions — use caramel popcorn around the edge of the cupcake to create a lion’s mane with cheerios for ears! 

Monkeys — cover the whole cupcake with rich chocolatey icing and then mix chocolate icing with vanilla icing to create a lighter brown colour for the mouth face. 

If you haven’t tried any cupcake decorating before, we hope that we’ve inspired you to get started. There are so many impressive-looking cupcake decorations which are actually really easy to make. With no set rules, you can create your own designs and come up with your own ideas. If you’re gifting your finished cupcake designs, use a cupcake box for a professional look. And don’t forget to take photos of your cupcakes to document the decorations before they’re eaten! 

Filed Under: Product News and Ideas

Primary Sidebar

Search this blog

Free Shipping Over £100FREE SHIPPING When you spend over £100 for orders being delivered to UK mainland Shipping is Free. Buy On-Line Now

Order with Confidence

Feefo logo

Categories

Blog News Archives

Follow Us

LinkedIn   Facebook   News Blog

YouTube   Twitter   RSS

Tel : 01494 511950

E : [email protected]

Archives

  • July 2025
  • May 2025
  • April 2025
  • February 2025
  • January 2025
  • December 2024
  • November 2024
  • July 2024
  • May 2024
  • April 2024
  • March 2024
  • February 2024
  • November 2023
  • September 2023
  • August 2023
  • July 2023
  • June 2023
  • May 2023
  • April 2023
  • March 2023
  • November 2022
  • October 2022
  • September 2022
  • August 2022
  • July 2022
  • May 2022
  • April 2022
  • March 2022
  • January 2022
  • September 2021
  • July 2021
  • June 2021
  • May 2021
  • January 2021
  • August 2020
  • April 2020
  • March 2020
  • February 2020
  • January 2020
  • December 2019
  • November 2019
  • August 2019
  • July 2019
  • May 2019
  • April 2019
  • March 2019
  • February 2019
  • January 2019
  • December 2018
  • November 2018
  • October 2018
  • August 2018
  • July 2018
  • May 2018
  • December 2017
  • November 2017
  • October 2017
  • May 2017
  • April 2017
  • March 2017
  • February 2017
  • December 2016
  • November 2016
  • July 2016
  • June 2016
  • May 2016
  • March 2016
  • February 2016
  • January 2016
  • December 2015
  • November 2015
  • October 2015
  • September 2015
  • August 2015
  • July 2015
  • June 2015
  • May 2015
  • March 2015
  • February 2015
  • January 2015
  • December 2014
  • October 2014
  • September 2014
  • August 2014
  • July 2014
  • June 2014
  • May 2014
  • April 2014
  • March 2014
  • February 2014
  • January 2014
  • November 2013
  • September 2013
  • August 2013
  • July 2013
  • June 2013
  • May 2013
  • April 2013
  • March 2013
  • February 2013
  • January 2013
  • December 2012
  • October 2012
  • May 2012
  • January 2012
  • December 2011
  • August 2011
  • March 2011
  • January 2011
  • December 2010
  • April 2010
  • December 2009
  • November 2008
  • July 2008
  • February 2008
  • January 2008
  • March 2007
  • December 2006

Footer

Contact Us

Cater For You Limited
Building 2 Hillbottom Road,
Behind PSV Glass,
Sands Industrial Estate,
High Wycombe,
Bucks,
HP12 4HJ
T: 01494 511950;
E: [email protected]

Click and Collect Orders

Click and Collect your orders from our warehouse in High Wycombe. We can also ship locally, nationally and internationally using DPD / DHL and Evri.

FAQ’s

  • Ordering FAQ's
  • Delivery FAQ's
  • Plastic Glasses FAQ's
  • BRC / ISO Accreditation

Secure Payments

We accept payments via SagePay of the following cards (and Paypal).

Payments Accepted

Copyright © 2025 · Log in
Cater For You Ltd trading as Cater4You · Company Number 04978127