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• In a small bowl, tint one cup of vanilla frosting with red liquid food coloring to make pink frosting. In medium bowl, tint 1 ½ cups of the frosting with red gel or paste food coloring to make desired color of red frosting for the barn; set aside. Reserve remaining white frosting.
Decorate Barn
• Trim one side of square cake to form roof of barn; place cake near the top of serving tray with the roof at the top of the tray.
• Crumb coat the top and sides of the cake with a thin layer of red frosting to seal in the crumbs. See more about How to crumb coat a cake.
• Refrigerate or freeze cake for 30 to 60 minutes.
• Frost tops and sides of chilled, crumb coated cake with remaining red frosting
• Use a spatula or toothpick to make vertical lines on the top of the cake to imitate the look of barn boards.
• For the window, break two pretzel sticks in half and create a square shape placed in the center towards the top of the cake. For the shutters, place a 1-inch-square piece of graham cracker on each side of the window. For the sides and top of the doorway, place three pretzel sticks near the (center) bottom of the cake.
For the doors, place a 2 ½ x 1-inch graham cracker on each side of the doorway. For the roof, arrange eight 2 ½ x 1-inch graham cracker rectangles on the top edge of the cake, overlapping to form the shingles of the roof. For the hay, place ½ cup of shredded coconut in a resealable food storage plastic bag and add 2 drops of yellow liquid food coloring; seal bag and shake to mix.
Place small amount of yellow coconut at the bottom of the window and doorway (reserve remaining yellow coconut to decorate the chick cupcakes). For the grass, add 1 cup of coconut in a resealable food storage plastic bag. Add 2 drops of green liquid food color; seal bag and shake to mix. Scatter green coconut on bottom half of tray. Decorate cupcakes and arrange on coconut grass.
Decorate Chicks
• Frost 4 cupcakes with white frosting. Top with reserved yellow coconut. For eyes, add brown mini candy coated chocolates. For the beak, flatten and cut an orange gumdrop into a triangle and place on cupcake.
Decorate Sheep
• Frost 4 cupcakes with white frosting. For the muzzle, spread ½ teaspoon of pink frosting in small circle on each cupcake; add red mini candy coated chocolate for the nose. For the eyes, add brown mini candy coated chocolates. For ears, add white gumdrop halves, cut sides down. For the sheep’s wool, cut mini marshmallows in half and place on the face and head.
Decorate Pigs
• Frost 4 cupcakes with pink frosting. For the snout, spread additional 1 teaspoon of pink frosting in small circle on each cupcake; add 2 red mini candy coated chocolate length-wise for the nostrils. For the eyes, add 2 brown mini candy coated chocolates. For the ears, cut 8 small triangles from the Fruit Roll-Ups® snacks; place on cupcakes and fold over to create the look of a floppy pig’s ear.
Cupcakes are the perfect dessert for all occasions especially for kids birthday. For the longest time, the cupcake has been a staple party favorite. Cupcakes seem to always be able to fit the bill.
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
And of course for birthday occasion it is very nice to make cupcakes more personalize.
Note From Grandpa Mike
Grace:
You can have a lot of fun with birthday cupcakes and when it comes to serving them at your party - you don't need plates, a serving knife or forks - just plenty of napkins.
And you can be very creative with your birthday cupcakes. Take a look at Veronica's Shark Attack Cupcakes that were submitted right here on our Fun Kid Birthday Parties Cake Forum.
Try serving cupcakes at your child's next birthday party.
To learn more about decorating your cupcakes, take a look at these fun Cupcake Pics and Rings from our good friends at The PartyWorks.
I made these from the book Hello Cupcake for my son's 7th birthday.
I made these cupcakes after I got the book Hello Cupcake from the book fair at my son's school.
They really weren't that hard. The biggest problem was finding some of the ingredients for the decorations but if you're creative there is always another way.
I couldn't find the chocolate wafer cookies suggested so I melted chocolate and made the fins with the half circles I created. I think they turned out great.
My sons teacher said she has been teaching for 25 years and has never had such a great treat for the class.
My son just about did flips when he saw how cool they looked.
Note From Grandpa Mike
Veronica:
Your Shark Attack Cupcakes look great!
Your creation proves what I say here on Fun Kid Birthday Parties all the time - be creative and have fun because your child will really appreciate all the work you put into their birthday cake or birthday cupcakes.
And your son's reaction proves it too.
"My son just about did flips when he saw how cool they looked." Now that's the kind of reaction every parent wants - and Veronica, you did it!
Even the creative name works. Not just "Shark Cupcakes" but the action phrase "Shark Attack Cupcakes" makes all the difference.
Now for those of you that want to put together a fun cupcake for your child's birthday party, take a look at the huge assortment of cupcake pics and rings available from our friend Kimberly at The PartyWorks.
And thank you Veronica for submitting your very creative Shark Attack Cupcakes.
* Place coconut in zip-top plastic bag. * Add a few drops of green food coloring. * Close bag and knead coconut by hand until it turns green. * Spread on a serving platter.
To make basketball cupcakes:
* Frost a cupcake with orange frosting, turning cupcake as you go to evenly coat. * Using a pastry cone filled with chocolate frosting, pipe lines on the cupcake to look like seams on a basketball.
To make baseball cupcake:
* Frost a cupcake with white frosting. * Pipe two arcs on top using the red frosting in a pastry cone. * Pipe the stitches on each arc using chocolate icing. Press down as you start to squeeze frosting out and then lift up.
To make a tennis ball cupcakes:
* Frost cupcakes with “tennis ball” green frosting. Create this unique shade by mixing yellow food coloring into white frosting and then add green one drop at a time, until you get the color just right. * Pipe two arcs with white frosting on top.
To make soccer ball cupcakes:
* Frost cupcakes with white frosting. * Using the pastry cone filled with chocolate frosting, make a pentagon in the center of the cupcake and fill in with chocolate frosting. Make a line from each of the points of the pentagon out to the edge of the cupcake. At the edge of each of the lines, pipe and fill a triangle shape.
Place finished cupcakes in a cupcake tree or on top of the coconut "turf" on a serving platter.
Note: Cupcakes can be frozen for up to two months.
For more about these sporty cupcakes, visit BettyCrocker.com
