Do you want to make an excitingly different cake for your kid’s birthday this year? If he is fond of pirates, then why not make a pirate themed cake for him? Decorating cakes according to your desired theme is actually easy. All you need to do is equip yourself with the right cake decorating tools and lots of candies.

Before you start, you will need a rectangular Madeira cake or any rectangular cake and buttercream icing. Some chocolate sticks, chocolate coins, mint imperials, sugared midget gems, yellow cocktail sugar and, of course, pirate toy figures and other related items are also needed to decorate your pirate cake. If you are using a rectangular cake, you may need to slice your cake in half and put them on top of the other to make your cake smaller but thicker.

Place your cake in a serving plate or board and fully coat your cake with buttercream icing. Once that is done, you may begin placing chocolate sticks unto it and covering all the sides. The icing will act as glue to ensure that the sticks will stay put. Alternately place the sticks to achieve a beautiful kind of texture. Then, spread a bit of buttercream icing on the cake board surrounding the cake and sprinkle some yellow cocktail sugar.

To finish decorating your pirate themed cake, add some gold coins on top of the cake. Place some more coins on the sides of the cake to make it look like they are overflowing. Position the pirate toy figures and other candies as well.

Do you want to serve something fun during your husband’s sports night with the boys or your son’s birthday party? Whip up some delicious sports themed cupcakes! Everyone will surely love them.

With this cupcake decorating idea, you can make tennis ball, soccer ball, baseball and basketball cupcakes. So, you need to get your cupcakes ready as well as your various colored frostings. You may need to customize the frostings with food coloring to achieve tennis ball green, orange, red hues.

Baseball Cupcake:

Evenly frost your cupcake with white frosting. Place from red frosting inside a piping bag and draw an arc on one side of the cupcake. Make another arc opposite it. Make stitching all over the arcs by pressing the frosting out of your piping bag gently before pulling it up abruptly.

Tennis Ball Cupcake:

Add a dollop of tennis ball green frosting unto your cupcake and evenly coat it all over the top. Put some white frosting inside a piping bag and make two arcs on each side of the cupcake.

Soccer Ball Cupcake:

Frost your cupcake with white frosting. Take your piping bag filled with chocolate frosting and pipe a small pentagon in the center. Draw some lines coming out of the pentagon and make little triangles at where the lines end.

Basketball Cupcake:

Coat your cupcake with orange frosting and even out the top. Take your chocolate frosting-filled piping bag and make two curve lines on the center: vertically and horizontally. Then, add a U-shaped curve on each sides of the cupcake.

There are a lot of cake decorating ideas that you can find in the internet today. Some of these cake decorating techniques are very easy to do and could be done by even the amateurs. However if you have been decorating cakes for some time now, it is best that you learn more difficult and complicated techniques.

Cake drapery is one of the most intricate cake decorating techniques that you can do if you want your cakes to be more elegant and dramatic. Do you want to learn how to master this particular technique? Follow these simple steps:

First, you’ll need to create a 50/50 mixture of gum paste and fondant. Once you have the combination ready, you need to roll it out thinly using a small rolling pin. Make sure that the fondant/gum paste combination will be paper thin so that it will drape on your cake properly.

What you need to do next is to gather one end of your rolled fondant and make folds that are somewhat similar to a ruffle. When you have figured out where you will be positioning the drape, apply piping gel on the cake and place the fondant. Stretch and arrange the drapery as you like.

Repeat the above steps to make more fondant drapery.

Do you want to make a unique cake that’s perfect for formal and more intimate occasions? Make a Pearl Cake with Swirls! This kind of cake is easy to make so you’ll always have a great result. The supplies you will need are gumpaste, round measuring spoons, lustre dust, lemon extract, paint brushes and royal icing.

To start making the pearl baubles, press a ball of fondant into a measuring spoon and smooth it out to create a flat side. Tap the spoon on the table to release the pearl. Use the whole set of measuring spoons to create different sizes of pearl baubles.

For the swirls, you need to press and roll out a tail from a small ball of fondant. Attach the swirl around a pearl bauble to give them their shape. For best results, create two to three swirls and put it around one pearl in a clockwise or counter clockwise direction. Let the swirls rest for about 10 minutes before removing it from the pearl bauble to ensure that they won’t break apart.

Mix edible lustre pearl dust and lemon extract and paint them on the pearls to give them a more realistic appearance. For the swirls, color them gold. You can use edible lustre gold dust and lemon extract. For additional texture and highlight, paint on some copper or teal colors too. Let the paint dry for about five to ten minutes.

Now you can use the pearl baubles and swirls on your cake. You can use these as accents to any of your cake decorating ideas.

Do you want to serve your delicious cupcakes in a whole new way? Instead of just using a dollop of frosting, you can opt make your very own cupcake topper instead.

Making your very own Gift Bow Cupcake Topper is extremely easy. All you need is a small rolling pin, modelling chocolate, a stick of gum, pastry wheel or pizza cutter, and your frosted cupcakes.

Take your modelling chocolate and roll it into 1/6” in width. Cut the modelling chocolate into strips. For a more precise measurement, use a stick of gum as a guide. Trim the edges neatly using a pastry wheel. To make one bow, you’ll need to make 13 strips of the modelling chocolate.

Fold the ends back of one chocolate strip and pinch them together to create a point. Do this to all 13 strips. To begin making a bow, first you need to arrange five points in a star shape as the first layer. Press the corners to attach them securely together. For the second layer, make another 5 point star, but arrange them closer together. Secure all the points together by sticking a small ball of modeling chocolate in the center. Flatten the ball to ensure that all points are in place.

Add the final three points and your gift bow topper is now ready! All you need to do is just place it on top of your frosted chocolate. You can also use this gift bow topper as a cake decorating idea when beautifying cakes.

For those who are familiar with several cake decorating ideas, you might have already realized that piping frosting on cake is relatively simple to do. Some people might say that piping frosting on cake doesn’t require any sort of skill. But you need to practice a bit if you would want your finished cake to appear professional.

Here are some piping techniques for you to practice on:

1) Dots – Hold your pastry bag, with a small writing tip, at a 90-degree angle. With the tip juts above the cake, squeeze the piping bag gently while keeping it down until a dot forms. Stop the pressure on the piping bag and lift the tip up. If the tip leaves a small tail on the top, gently smooth it down using a finger that’s been dipped in cornstarch or confectioner’s sugar.

2) Ropes – With the pastry bag at a 45-degree angle, pipe a C, tuck the tip on the bottom portion of the C and make a backward C. Continue overlapping opposite C curves to form a rope.

3) Squiggles and Letters – Fill your piping bag with thinned down icing for a smoother flow. Pipe messages, letters and squiggles at a 40-degree angle while putting consistent gently pressure on the piping bag.

Do you want to make a football shaped cake for that football fanatic in your family? Follow these simple steps to make your cake more realistic and fun:

1) You will be using fondant for this cake project so you’ll need all your fondant tools as well.

2) Made an egg shape chocolate cake. You can either carve a cake by hand or bake a cake using an egg or football shaped pan. Coat the cake with chocolate butter cream icing and put in the refrigerator to cool.

3) Mix dark chocolate colored fondant with ivory colored fondant to come up with a beautiful leather colored fondant combination.

4) Flatten your fondant using a rolling pin. You can put powdered sugar with cocoa powder on your work surface to prevent the fondant from sticking.

5) If you have large bread/bun pans, place your flatten fondant on the pan and continue rolling it flat. This will help create texture marks that are very similar to an actual football.

6) Take you cooled cake and carefully place the fondant over it. Make sure that to pull on the fondant as you go. Trim excess fondant before gently tucking the fondant securely on the cake.

7) Find the middle of your cake and create a straight vertical line from top to bottom. Make a similar line on the sides of the cake to make it appear more three-dimensional.

8.) Make 8 holes on each side of the middle line as the football’s lace holes. Using a pastry bag with white frosting and a number 7 tip, pipe in some laces by going across one hole to another. Pipe a straight line to complete the lace accents.

9) You can opt to pipe some grass frosting on the cake serving tray before placing the cake on the center. This will surely help make the whole cake appear more beautiful.

Roses are often given by people to show them they are loved and appreciated. Roses come in different varieties and colors which makes them a truly versatile flower.

If you want to show someone that you love them but don’t want to give out roses, give them rose-covered cupcakes instead. Making your own rose-covered cupcakes is a lot of fun so it won’t feel like work at all. As soon as you have your piping bag, buttercream frosting, large rose tip and cupcakes ready, you can now begin.

Position your piping bag so the rose tip is facing sideways with the longer end at the bottom and the shorter end at the top. Hold your cupcake in your hand and squeeze out the icing using a consistent, even pressure. Proceed your decorating by swirling more buttercream petals unto the cupcake. You might want to turn the cupcake as you go to make the task easier.

Make some swirls on top of the cupcake first. Once you are satisfied with the partial appearance of your rose petal swirls, you can repeat the motion several times until the cupcake is completely covered.

Finish the rose-covered cupcakes by turning the pastry bag so the tip is flat and making big sweeping petals to close any gaps that you may have.

Make something festive and fun this Christmas and you’ll surely be rewarded with a praises and smiles all around. What could be more festive and fun than Reindeer cupcakes, right?

Here’s how to make you own Reindeer cupcakes:

1.) Frost your cupcake with chocolate frosting using an offset spatula.
2.) Take some pretzels and cut off the sections until you have an “F” shape pretzel section. Make two of these since they will be used as the antlers.
3.) For the reindeer’s snout, place a vanilla wafer on lower top of the frosted cupcake. Put in a red peanut M&M on top of that for the reindeer’s nose.
4.) Add colored chocolate candies on the top portion of the cupcake. This will serve as the reindeer’s eyes.
5.) Grab your pastry bag with black icing and pipe the different accents on the cupcakes include those for the eyes and the reindeer’s mouth.
6.) Put in two miniature Tootsie Rolls on the cupcake to serve as the reindeer’s ears. You might want to pop the candy in the microwave oven for a few minutes so that they’ll be soft and pliable to mold in to an ear shape.
7.) Now, position the pretzel antlers near the ears.
8.) Admire your work and you’re all set to serve the cupcakes.

This Christmas, serve up a unique dessert that will surely bring smiles to anyone that eats it. Your Snowman cupcakes will surely be a hit since it won’t only be delicious, it would look really fancy too.

To begin making a Snowman cupcake, you’ll need to frost three cupcakes with white icing. Afterwards, you’ll need to dip the frosted cupcakes in white coconut or white coarse sugar to give them a realistic, shiny appearance.

Make a hat out of a thin chocolate wafer cookie by cutting them with a serrated knife to make a triangular shape. Don’t throw the excess though as you’ll be need it to make the brim of your Snowman’s hat.

Insert the tip of your knife at the top of one cupcake to insert the wafer hat securely. Now, you can place the brim at the bottom of the hat. If you feel that the cookies don’t stay still, you can add a bit of frosting to act as glue. Decorate your Snowman hat with cookies or colored frosting if you prefer.

For the Snowman’s face, you can use whatever candies you might want. Get creative since the sky is the limit, so do not bound yourself when executing cake decorating ideas.