I'm doing cupcakes for our holiday party at work. I'm wondering what your favorite ways to decorate are. Do you use a frosting bag to apply frosting or a spatula. What gives you the cleanest look?? Would love to know what y'all are going.

P.S. Can't get my signature to work but we are still waiting for our first Granbaby to arrive, then it's off to Colorado. 8 days and counting!!

I love to do a swirl with tip 1M, in different colors of icing or just chocolate and vanilla and I add sprinkles to some of them. I also like using tips 2C and 2D.

Unless I have a special design to go on them I like to swirl icing on with a large star tip. You can add some kind of candy to decorate the cupcakes but it's a quick way to cover them and always looks nice.

hmmmm...my favorite....gosh...that would have to be filled with caramel cream and bakeshop icing then dipped in chocolate espresso ganache sprinkled with toasted almonds and drizzled with caramel cream

or after dipping in the chocolate espresso ganache, to sprinkle with mini pastel confetti.

MMMMM..... all4cake, that sounds WONDERFUL!

for quickie cupcakes that are more for eating than for show, i like to just frost with a quick swirl of a 1M tip. for a quick fancying that up i spray color and/or add jimmies/sprinkles. you can do dozens in a night that way.

my wife came home one evening and told me, "my class is having a halloween party, will you bake something" i said sure, when? "tomorrow" thus was born my quickie cupcake technique 48 black & orange color-sprayed cupcakes ready by bedtime.

I read a recipe on baking the cupcakes in a flat bottom ice cream cone, filled about 1/2 full and then doing a swirl design to resemble a ice cream swirl...

anyone ever make those ice cream cone cupcakes? I have tried twice now and they have not turned out. kind of flat and doughy, after leaving them in the oven forever!

Oh, I forgot toanswer the question...

My favorite cupcakes I've made are on page 2 of my photo gallery, used the grass tip with fondant daisies on the top.

I like to pipe flowers directly on my cupcakes like sunflowers or pansies. It's pretty quick.

oh I love cupcakes recently. I decorated about 50 for a fall fest and tried out a bunch of tips. I REALLY loved the effect from the grass tip-I did not pull out much, but short little squeezes. I was using white b/c. People commented on those the most.

Before icing my cupcakes (double swirls with 1M tip), I dip the bottoms in candy melts. That hard little shell is awesome on a cupcake, and these are actually my signature item! On the swirls, I'll add candy melts molded into whatever shape...hearts, doves, lips, whatever fits the occasion. I also added fondant leaves dusted with gold sparkle dust and baby pumpkins for Halloween for an order. Sprinkles and/or sanding dust are also a favorite way to finish my cc's off.

Amy