Birthday Cupcakes

Celebrating with birthday cupcakes gives you a lot of flexibility. You have your pick of themes, colors and designs: flowers, animals, characters. You name it, and it can be converted in to a celebratory theme.

However, the simple fact is there’s so much to choose from, you might get stuck! Sometimes, the best option is to pick something plain and simple. Color is often a good focus and can help tie a design together very easily. You may not find the obvious themes on these pages—candles, balloons, party hats—but feel free to adapt the concept to any design or idea that you have. Sprinkle in some heart-felt well wishes to your special person and you can turn any concept into a celebration.

“Celebrate with Stars” Birthday Cupcakes

The great thing about the simple design of these birthday cupcakes is you can very easily change the stars to flowers, diamonds or anything you want. Vary the color to match the theme as well.

Bakery/Cake Goods Needed:

• Your favorite batch of vanilla cupcakes
• Your favorite butter cream frosting recipe

Star Plaques Decorating Supplies:

• 1 small batch of premade fondant
  (we used Wilton’s Ready-To-Use Rolled Fondant in white)
• Metal star shaped cutters
  (we used the 2” and 1″ star cutter from Wilton’s Star Fondant Cut-outs)
• Yellow food color
  (we used Wilton’s paste food color in Golden Yellow)
• Small rolling pin
• Wax Paper
• Food-safe paint brush
• Wilton #3 round tip
• Coupler Ring
• Decorator Icing in a Tube
  (we used Wilton’s Decorating Icing in Blue)
• Multi-color candy jimmies

Cupcake Icing Tools:

• Ateco #804 Round Tip
• Icing Bag

Finishing Touches:

• Blue, Red and Yellow cupcake liners

Make the Star Plaques:

Step 1: Break off a medium size ball from the fondant and set aside. Tint the remaining fondant yellow.

Step 2: With the small rolling pin, roll out yellow fondant to approximately 1/4″ thick. Cut out shapes using 2″ star cutter.

Step 3: With the small rolling pin, roll out white fondant to approximately 1/4″ thick. Cut out shapes using 1″ star cutter.

Step 4: With the food-safe paint brush, wet the center of the yellow star with water. Attach the smaller white star to the center. Set aside on wax paper to dry and harden over night.

Icing the Birthday Cupcakes:

Step 1: Fill the icing bag with butter cream and fit the opening with a Ateco #804 Round metal tip. Using a circular motion, squeeze out icing to cover the top of the cupcakes.

Step 2: Sprinkle tops with multi-colored candy jimmies.

Decorating the Cupcakes:

Step 1: Place a star with attached circle to the center of each cupcake.

Step 2: Fit the #3 Round Tip with the coupler over the opening of the red decorator icing.

Step 3: Pipe out the letters that spell out “HAPPY BIRTHDAY” on to each cupcake.