Browse through Wilton’s collection of more than 200 simple and creative cupcake decorating ideas. From birthdays and major holidays to baby showers and graduations, you’ll find great ideas for decorating cupcakes for all themes and "occasions. Let Wilton help you find inspired and innovative ideas for making colorful butterfly cupcakes, ladybug cupcakes, princess cupcakes and more!
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214 ideas were found matching your search criteria.
Our Flag Was Still There Cupcakes
Difficulty: Easy
Add patriotic punch to your next Independence Day picnic with Our Flag Was Still There! Cupcakes. Creative piping makes a delicious fireworks display.
Skull Cupcakes
Difficulty: Easy
This design is a real no-brainer! Simply ice cupcakes a spooky color, add spider sprinkles and position skull shaped icing decoration for a super quick treat.
Balloons Aloft Cupcakes
Difficulty: Easy
Take the birthday party to new heights with individual treats decorated with brightly-colored icing balloons. Watch our online video.
Fit For Royalty Cupcakes
Difficulty: Easy
Send them home happy! Top cupcakes baked in Disney Princess Baking Cups with Disney Princess Icing Decorations and place them in colorful Disney Princess Treat Bags. The best favors ever!!!
Mini Heart Cupcakes
Difficulty: Easy
Mini cupcakes couldn´t be easier for a Valentine´s Day treat! A simple swirl, topped by a heart icing decoration, is all you need to sweep your sweetheart off their feet. Mini cupcakes make great cake toppers, too! Imagine these cute heart treats on top of a heart-shaped party cake—it´s a great way to make your cake go farther while giving everyone their own Valentine goodie!
A Rainbow of Good Wishes Cupcakes
Difficulty: Easy
Arrange Standard Muffin Pan and Mini Muffin Pan cupcakes to create a tabletop rainbow. Sweeten the view by adding candies shaped in our Alphabet Candy Mold and Stars Candy Mold.
A Sure Cure Cupcake
Difficulty: Easy
School nurses, EMTs and kids with skinned knees will get a kick out of these bandage impersonators. Whip up a bunch in no time using our nine-cavity Petite Loaf Pan.
Boutique Bracelets Cupcake
Difficulty: Easy
Give each girl at the party jewelry—to eat, not wear— with this adorable bracelet cupcake. Make them pretty with the creative Wilton Kids Create-N-Color™ Fondant Treat Kit!
Flower Power Cupcake
Difficulty: Easy
Grow a garden of beautifully decorated flower cupcakes. Create the layered petals with the punch set, cutting inserts and Sugar Sheets!
Greetings Earthlings Cupcakes
Difficulty: Easy
Stage a splashy invasion! Turn marshmallows into a fleet of Martian-driven spaceships and shape a celestial galaxy using our Fondant Cutters Star Cut-Outs and yellow-tinted fondant.
Sit Down With A Clown Cupcakes
Difficulty: Easy
Every guest gets his or her own cute clown at this first celebration. It’s figure-piped in buttercream icing atop a tasty cupcake. Add a small derby clown head and candy-coated chocolate dots trim.
Snowdrift Cupcakes
Difficulty: Easy
Cake Sparkles and Icing Decorations make it easy to create an enchanting winter scene on these sparkling Snowdrift Cupcakes.
Hamming It Up! Cupcakes
Difficulty: Easy
Everyone will love to pig out on these fun cupcakes! Use the patterns to pipe the Candy Melts® features with ease, then add a marshmallow snout.
One Flag for All Cupcakes
Difficulty: Easy
Arrange cupcakes frosted in red, white, and blue into an Old Glory shape. Baked in Wilton Stars and Stripes Baking Cups, they’ll keep their patriotic spirit when guests pick them up!
Sweetly Stated Cupcake
Difficulty: Easy
Get the conversation started with Valentine’s Day cupcakes! These are baked in pink and red Heart Silicone Baking Cups and spatula iced for easy decorating.

