For the longest time, the cupcake has been a staple party favorite.
From weddings, debuts and quinceñeras, to campaigns for homecoming elections and fund-raising bake sales, you will almost certainly find cupcakes of different flavors taking center stage.
Since these are special occasions, it can be an interesting twist to personalize your cupcakes.
This will make your event - and your cupcake - even more memorable and attractive.
Personalized Toppers Whatever the occasion may be, you can add a personal touch with a simple topper.
The simplest you can do is to attach a symbol to a toothpick, making a kind of mini-flag.
For family occasions such as birthdays and weddings, you can adorn cupcakes with mini-flags featuring meaningful photos and sayings or simply the name of the celebrant, the occasion and the date.
For bake sales, you can print the logo of the charity for which the proceeds of the sale are intended.
You can also use your organization's logo, symbol or mascot as your cupcake topper.
Say It with Frosting You can use cupcake frosting to make the cupcakes your own.
One of the most creative yet simplest ways to personalize through frosting is to use a frosting color that is meaningful to you or to the occasion.
Weddings normally have theme color motifs and you can use this same color palette for the cupcake frosting.
For birthdays, the frosting color may be the celebrant's favorite.
For bake sales, company and school colors can be used.
Besides meaningful frosting colors, attractive and meaningful designs using frosting may be added.
After frosting with a uniformly-colored base, you can pipe the bride and groom's initials for weddings or the quinceñera celebrant's initials or nickname.
School initials may also be piped or diagonal stripes using school colors may be used as the main décor.
Photo Cupcakes The ultimate way to personalize your cupcake is through transferring images and photos.
There is now available technology where ordinary inkjet printers can transfer images onto cakes.
Cake supplies shops and online stores offer edible ink and edible frosting sheets for sale, which are the tools needed for making photo cupcakes.
Online stores also offer downloadable software to assist you in creating personalized images that will be transferred onto your cakes.
You can use actual photos or meaningful images, such as Hello Kitty for a Hello Kitty-themed party or Disney Princesses for your little girl.
Wedding souvenir cupcakes may be made more meaningful by featuring a photo of the bride and the groom.
Other than souvenirs, they can be turned into an interesting centerpiece, where each cupcake is decorated by transferring photos of different meaningful moments in the couple's lives.
To transfer photos, measure your baked cupcake and create a design on your computer.
Print a draft of the design on regular paper and measure this against your baked cupcake.
You will then need to put a 'base coat' of frosting on your cupcakes.
Once you are ready, print the design on edible frosting sheets using edible ink.
Cut out the designs and lay them on your cupcakes.
The design will 'melt' into your base frosting.
Try all these special ideas and make your special moment difficult to forget.