Peppa Pig Cupcakes

I think that Peppa Pig has taken over the world for kids :).

If you google Peppa pig cupcakes they are very complicated and require a lot of skill. I would highly recommend that if you are going to do Peppa Pig themed birthday then buy some cupcake wrappers and cupcake toppers. If you don't have the money, there are a multitude of printable Peppa cupcake wrappers and toppers that you just print off and wrap around your cupcakes. And the toppers you just attach to toothpicks and stick in the cakes.

This one below would look better with some coloured or pink(or blue if we are on team George) sprinkles to make them pop.

 

These toppers are good but if you are icing like above you might squash the top. Would be more suited to the rose style of icing where you start at the centre and work your way out.

 

 

Sets like this are available on ebay and would make your cupcakes look fantastic. My tip to you is to cook them in a different pan and add these over the top after. (Learnt that the hard way) Otherwise if you have any overflow while baking you will ruin your beautiful patty pans.

 

 

Even with no topper the cupcakes can look spectacular with some cute sprinkles and a cupcake wrapper.

 

Sesame Street Cupcakes

My son is obsessed with all things sesame street so when I did a sesame street themed birthday for him last year I spent a lot of time looking at cakes. They all seemed very difficult. These are the four best ideas I came across when I was researching his birthday.


These are the cupcakes I used as inspiration for the ones I ended up making him. There were kind of fiddly but looked fantastic for his first birthday.

The fur is simply made with a grass icing tip which you can purchase from a decorating store. Or I got mine from spotlight.

For the eyes I used mints. I was originally going to use white chocolate buds but I couldn't find them in the right size for my cakes but you might have more luck.

Elmos nose is an orange m and m, and the cookies in cookie monsters mouth are just half of a store bought mini chocolate chip cookie.

All the black featues (I think they are fondant in the pic) but I used a black decorating pen. Which you can find at a cake decorating store.

 
 

 

 

Cookie Monster Below is a similar idea but done with sprinkles rather than the grass tip, which would be a lot quicker to do. Ive also seen them done with shredded coconut and food colouring.

 

 

 

If you don't have the patience to do that sort of decorating go onto ebay and search for sesame street cake toppers. you can get these relatively cheap and then by using a 1M tip and some brightly coloured icing your cupcakes will turn out as cute as these below.

 

 

 

These are exactly the same as above but with some extra sprinkles added. So cute!

 

 

Basic cupcake tips

After doing a basic cupcake course I am obsessed with cupcakes!!! I didn't realise how easy it was to make great looking cupcakes. The key is decorators icing or thick buttercream icing. 

Yes you can use fondant to do really fancy things, but seriously does anyone actually like to eat fondant.

This blog will have fondant free, cupcake ideas for kids birthday parties. 

You can buy buttercream icing or decorators icing or google recipes they are all over the internet.

A 1M tip is the basic cupcake tip that is usually used for cupcakes and just swirl them on.

 
 



















There is also a grass tip available which is used to use to make grass or fur.

The two techniques below are so very simple. The one on the left that piles up is just a matter off swirling the icing in from the outside in a spiral to the centre. The one on the right that looks like a rose is simply swirling a spiral from the centre to the outside! 

With these simple tips the cupcake world is at your fingertips.