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Adding Mix-Ins to Batter
Difficulty: Easy
Perk up your cupcakes by adding in fun flavors and textures!
Apples
Difficulty: Somewhat Easy
A great party pick. You can pipe the royal icing fruit in advance, including stems and leaves. At serving time, just position as needed on your iced cake or cupcake. Or make your fruit directly on your cake in buttercream icing.
Banana
Difficulty: Easy
Add a single banana or a bunch to the top of your cupcake. Could the banana decoration be a clue that the cupcake is banana flavored?
Brush Embroidery
Difficulty: Somewhat Easy
Add textured flowers with the soft look of lace using this easy icing technique. Works best using a square tip brush.
Cell Phone
Difficulty: Somewhat Easy
Here´s a fondant decoration that will really connect with kids! We used Neon and Natural Fondant Multi Packs to make this simple shape—but you can create a phone in any color you like using tinted white fondant.
Chicks
Difficulty: Somewhat Easy
The perfect addition to your baby shower, farm theme or Easter cupcakes. These chicks can be piped directly on your cake or cupcakes. You can also do them ahead of time in Royal Icing to save time.
Chicks Sitting
Difficulty: Medium
This fun fowl is easy to figure pipe directly on your cake using stiff buttercream. Or, you can make them in advance using stiff royal icing on a waxed paper-covered cake board. If made in advance, be sure to store them away from bright or fluorescent light to prevent colors from fading.
Covering the Cupcake Using Ganache, Candy Melts or poured icings
Difficulty: Somewhat Easy
You can't go wrong with any of these delicious coatings. Each will give cupcakes, mini cakes and other baked goods a beautiful finish — choose the look you want for your event.
Cow
Difficulty: Medium
Your piped animals can be as lifelike or cartoonish as you want them to be. Begin with a base and add familiar shapes such as dots, balls and strings that give your figure personality.
Drizzling
Difficulty: Easy
Add artistic flair to cookies with just a drizzle of icing or melted candy. Drizzles don’t have to be straight lines–try spirals, zigzags, and swirls, too.
Fantasy Flowers
Difficulty: Somewhat Easy
Delicate white dotted flowers built on a star — a perfect look for winter wedding cupcakes and holiday designs.
Fondant Candles
Difficulty: Somewhat Easy
A very bright idea! Fondant candles with sparkling star flames.
Graduates
Difficulty: No reviews
Make a plain cupcake the perfect graduation cupcake by adding these fun fondant students to the sides. They're a breeze to cut, shape and decorate using a cookie cutter and royal icing.
Grass
Difficulty: Easy
The grass tip creates the most celebrated, easily accomplished decorations! The serrated edges of the grass tip makes ridges in the icing as you squeeze it out. Our step-by-step video shows you how!
Kid Candy Face
Difficulty: Easy
It's always a party when you top your cupcakes with smiling candy faces! Give everyone a different hat design using various colors of rolled fondant and FoodWriter Markers.
Lamb Laying Down
Difficulty: Somewhat Easy
This contented lamb is the perfect way to top Easter treats or cupcakes for an animal-themed party. Shape the head with a small ball of fondant.

