Cinco de Mayo cupcake
What You Need: 1 cupcake; white or off-white frosting; green sugar; red sugar; Mexican flag pick; strip of cardstock or index card; scissors.
How to Make It: Frost cupcake. Cut a strip from cardstock or index card about 3/4″ wide. Holding strip slightly above cupcake to block off the center, sprinkle green sugar on the left side of the cupcake and red sugar on the right side. Add Mexican flag pick to center.
Apple tree cupcake
What You Need: 1 cupcake; light green frosting; green gel icing in tube; red mini M&Ms. (You could use red hots instead, but the colors tend to run after awhile.)
How to Make It: Frost cupcake. Draw tree shape using gel icing. Add upside-down M&Ms for apples on the tree and ground.
Get hopping for Leap Day or any day with these fun frog cupcakes that use marshmallows for buggy eyes.
What You Need: 1 cupcake; icing tinted green; 1 marshmallow; black gel or writing icing; red licorice; scissors.
How to Make It: Frost cupcake. Use kitchen shears or floured scissors to cut marshmallow in half widthwide Use black to make 2 eyeball dots on the not-sticky end of the marshmallow halves. Set eyeballs on cupcake. Add red licorice mouth.
It only comes around every four years: It’s Leap Day, February 29th, and 2008 is the year for it. If you’re reading this later, you don’t have to wait until the next leap year in 2012 to enjoy these fun frog cupcakes. They’re hoppin’ good for any occasion.
What You Need: 1 cupcake; white frosting; green fondant; circle cutter; gummy frog; candy flower (or piped icing flower).
How to Make It: Frost cupcake. Roll out fondant (see our cupcakes and fondant page for tips) and cut out circle. Then cut triangle-shaped notch out of circle so it looks like a lilypad. Use dabs of icing to stick gummy frog and flower to lily pad.
Celebrate President’s Day by reliving the “George Washington chopped down the cherry tree” legend in cupcake form.
What You Need: 1 cupcake (baked and cooled); white frosting; 1 slim stick pretzel; bit of purple or other dark fruit leather (we used Stackers); cherry sour candy; scissors.
How to Make It: Frost cupcake. Use scissors to cut ax head shape from fruit roll or snack. Use dab of icing to stick ax head to pretzel and place on cupcake. Add red cherry candy.
Of all the things George Washington is remembered for, there’s always that darn cherry tree. Did it really happen? Who cares; any excuse to make cupcakes! Consider adding cherry flavoring or filling to these cupcakes to complete the feeling. You don’t have to wait for Presidents’ Day to make these cupcakes. They’d be great for any cherry themed occasion, from gambling to a kids’ party.
What You Need: 1 cupcake (baked and cooled); white frosting; pastry bag and 1M star tip; gummy cherry with stem.
How to Make It: First, make swirl with 1M star tip: While squeezing out icing, move arm in a circular motion and cover the top of the cupcake with a swirl of icing. Then, starting a little bit in from the edge this time, make a second swirl on top of the first one. Add gummy cherry and that’s it!
If you’re as lucky as us, you’ll walk into a candy store one day and find a chocolate, foil-wrapped Lincoln penny. And, at Easycupcakes.com, when life hands us chocolate Lincoln pennies, we make cupcakes.
What You Need: 1 cupcake (baked and cooled); white frosting; large red and blue star sprinkles; foil-wrapped chocolate Lincoln penny; pastry bag and 1M star tip.
How to Make It: Fit pastry bag with 1M star tip and fill bag halfway with white frosting. While squeezing out icing, move arm in a circular motion and cover the top of the cupcake with a swirl of icing. Then, starting a little bit in from the edge this time, make a second swirl on top of the first one. Place coin in swirl and add stars.
