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Going Buggy Over You Cupcakes
Difficulty: Somewhat Easy
Send your valentine some Going Buggy Over You Cupcakes. These love bugs with cute little Icing Decoration antennae are sure to capture hearts.
Open Wide Cupcakes
Difficulty: Somewhat Easy
Cupcake monster looks like he’s ready to take the first bite! For black icing background, we suggest you start with chocolate buttercream so less icing color is needed.
Star Treatment Cupcakes
Difficulty: Somewhat Easy
Star pupils will love these extracurricular cupcakes topped with a cookie star. They’re extra colorful with tinted dough, a piped #1 and Star Shaped Sprinkles.
Basket Inspectors Cupcakes
Difficulty: Somewhat Easy
Look who’s popping up at everyone’s place for Easter! It’s a cute bunny basket inspector on a cupcake that’s fresh as spring. The basket has a pretty handle made from dots of piped candy, and it’s filled with pull-out icing grass and pastel jelly beans.
Brilliant Butterfly Cupcakes
Difficulty: Somewhat Easy
A dazzling neon butterfly greets your guests on these delightful cupcakes. Cut this fun shape with the Sugar Sheets! Punch and Butterfly Cutting Insert.
Elegant Ornament Cupcakes
Difficulty: Somewhat Easy
Easy-to-make ornament cupcakes are a quick treat for the holidays! Simply spatula ice cupcakes smooth using buttercream icing. Add zigzag trim decorated with mini candy-coated chocolate dots. Top with a marshmallow and black shoestring licorice hanger.
Little Peeper Cupcakes
Difficulty: Somewhat Easy
Serve up a flock of fun! Kids and adults alike will love these chick cupcakes for springtime brunches, Easter treats, birthdays and more. These chicks are not just for girls, boys think these chicks are cute, too! For more fun, tuck them into springtime baskets and add them to the egg hunt, too.
Party Faces Cupcakes
Difficulty: Somewhat Easy
Nothing like a plate of smiling cupcakes with joyous party smiles to get the fun started. Bake cupcakes in Party Hat Baking Cups and make hats with Party Time Candy Mold. Decorate faces and top with candy hat.
Peppermint Twist Cupcakes
Difficulty: Somewhat Easy
The jolly Mini Gingerbread Boy Icing Decoration in the center makes these Peppermint Twist Cupcakes a real holiday charmer.
Smirking Spider Cupcakes
Difficulty: Somewhat Easy
And what’s bugging you? This striped arachnid has a mini cake body and cookie head with fearsome stenciled face. Licorice legs are all the rage!
Spider Snack Cupcakes
Difficulty: Somewhat Easy
Just the creepy, crawly treats that kids of all ages love to have around at Halloween.
Fearsome Monster Cupcake
Difficulty: Somewhat Easy
That’s one corny smile! To get a nicely rounded head using less icing, place a cookie or mini muffin on top of cupcake before icing.
Hooked on the Holidays! Cupcakes
Difficulty: Somewhat Easy
Everyone will have jolly good fun with easy-to-decorate cupcakes in the season’s most festive shapes and colors.
Treats That Talk Cupcakes
Difficulty: Somewhat Easy
Tell someone they are sweet with a conversation heart on a cupake!
Cupcakes Raise A Flap
Difficulty: Somewhat Easy
Party guest will just go batty for these high-flying treats! Cupcakes come to life with Chocolate Roll-Out Cookie wings and Chocolate Buttercream Icing faces.
Smiles From Santa Cupcakes
Difficulty: Somewhat Easy
Sure to bring smiles to your guests, too! Bake cupcakes in Jolly Santa Baking Cups. Add Santa’s face and smile using decorating tips and butttercream icing!

