Ideas for Decorating the Icing for Easter Cupcakes
- Find Easter-themed stencils at your favorite craft store. They should be small enough to fit on the top of the iced cupcake. Ice the cupcake and place the stencil gently on the icing. Sprinkle edible glitter over the stencil to create the image on the cupcake. Carefully remove the stencil so that you do not smear the icing or the image.
- Purchase multiple colors of decorative piping gel at your grocery or party store. Ice your cupcakes using white icing so that the colorful gel will be visible on the top of the cupcake. Create an Easter egg on the top of the cupcake by first drawing an oval. Use additional piping gel to fill in the oval and finish decorating the egg in any way you choose. Create a different egg on each cupcake in the batch, but use similar colors to coordinate them.
- Purchase small Easter-themed plastic novelties at your local party store. They should be no bigger than 1 to 2 inches tall. Use pastel-colored icing to ice the cupcakes. Allow them to fully cool and place one novelty on each cupcake. Press the small toy in the cupcake icing deep enough so that it will stay when transporting the cupcakes. Be sure to alert the recipient that the novelties are for decorative purposes only and that they are not edible.
- Purchase a bag of multi-colored jelly beans. After icing the cupcake, decorate the top of your cupcake with a jelly bean monogram. Place the jelly beans in the form of the first letter of the name of the recipient of your Easter basket. You can also place your jelly beans on top of the icing to create an egg or other Easter-themed shape.