One last before the New Year begins… and I couldn't resist sharing some cupcakes with you!
I added some quick instructions if you want to try these yourself. You could do any design… you are only limited by your imagination!
They are super festive, and could not be easier to do!
Pick your favorite cake recipe, I happen to love this chocolate cake, and your favorite frosting. It can be anything, cream cheese, buttercream, whipped even!
To make the 'fireworks' embellishment, I just threw some white chocolate chips into a plastic bag and melted them in 30 second increments until completely melted.
Then cut off the smallest tip I could and piped out a design I had decided upon before hand.
*An easy trick to doing this is use wax or parchment paper, then place your design behind the paper.
You can see that I am very precise.
While the chocolate was still wet, I added some sparkle!
I would have loved to use silver luster dust, but my dear daughter found it and decided to decorate the carpet and walls instead.
Let the chocolate set for about a half hour, or just pop into the freezer for a couple minutes.
Insert into pre-iced cupcake, and you are all set!
Thank you for being such a huge part of "i am baker" in 2010.
I have just fallen hopelessly in love with you all, and cant wait to see how our will relationship flourish in 2011!
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You can find this post and MANY others over at tidymom.net… its seriously the best holiday round-up!
Oh my gosh! I love the little fireworks decor on the cupcakes. Adorable!
Beautiful cupcakes! We’ll be away for the New Year but I wonder if I could pull something like this off in a condo full of people on the slopes!
See you in 2011!!
Amanda….these are SO fun!!! Between your cupcakes and Cheryl’s printables, I almost want to have a party!
PS…have never seen that “star dust!” Pretty!
Now those are celebration cupcakes indeed! Love what you did. All the best to you in 2011 Amanda, looking forward to following your posts in the coming year. So very much enjoyed this past one.
so cute! I wasn’t planning to make any desserts for awhile, but now you’ve got me wanted to try these!
So fun! And so easy! I think I might give it a shot! Is that sparkle dust available at a regular grocery store? Or maybe in the cake-decorating section at Walmart?
PS. I thought about you today when I was making my birthday cake. It was from a box mix and I felt so ashamed, lol. Maybe next year, I’ll try one from scratch!
i like to read your posts. thanks for this one.
Love, love, love!!! Happy New Year to you and your family!!
LOVE!!!!!
LOVE! Oh so perfect. I posted a link on ediblecrafts.craftgossip.com. And how very darling and considerate that your daughter is so festive and decorated your house for you!
Cute AND EASY! That is the best kind of treat.
Happy New Year!
I may make those! Minus the glitter as I have no idea where I would obtain that here in the backwoods. Ha!
Beautiful. Now I want to make cupcakes!
Very cute!
Happy New Year!
Happy New Year Amanda! I look forward to seein’ pics of your new lil’ one in 2011!
As usual, these are so cute and blow me away. I wish you lived closer – I would be your best customer.
At first I didn’t believe you when you said it couldn’t be easier, but maybe I could actually do these!!!!
We are so happy to read your blogs Amanda and wish you and your family a wonderful new year!!
these cupcakes are fabulous & i love the tutorial (possibilities are endless!)…
thanks so much & best wishes amanda…for a new year filled with laughter, love, good health & happiness!
I LOVE these Amanda!! so simple yet elegant!
I LOVE them!!!
Beautiful and simple, perfect combination.
SO whimsical and elegant at the same time! Happy New Year to you & yours…may it be filled with love & laughter!
Those are so fun, and look easy enough that even I could do them!
We absolutely loved your New Year’s eve cupcake post, so much so that we featured it on our own blog (and provided a link to your post). Please see here: http://blog.dressmycupcake.com/?p=114
Stunning cupcakes!
- Ashley
http://www.DressMyCupcake.com
ha! Sorry to read that your little gal decorated your house with the luster dust. Not cool. These cupcakes on the other hand are very cool! Happy New Year my friend – I too am excited for the upcoming year. Bet lots of cool stuff will happen
XO
Happy New Year! These are super cute.
Thank you for these! I was searching for cute New Years cupcakes and I found your recipe/blog. Let me just say I am HOOKED!!
Posted these on the Cupcakes Take the Cake blog!!!
They’re amazing! Thank you!
http://iammommy.typepad.com/i_am_baker/2010/12/new-years-eve-cupcakes-tutorial.html
<3 Betsy
Intern for CTTC
As usual – brilliant! I love that this is a quick and somewhat easy trick…I am quite sure I could handle this one!
These are super duper cute! I was starting to look around for some NYE cupcake ideas and this is just darling! Thanks for sharing!
looks fabulous happy new year
Just amazing!! Have a happy New Year’s!
These are SO cute! LOVE it… You’re brilliant.
Silver Dust on the carpet and walls? How festive and endearing! Your cupcakes are the bomb dot com, Amanda. They look like a ton of fun. Hope you have a great week!
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This is great! I wish I went to parties with you.
This is so clever. It’s amazing how easy it is to make these edible, spectacular fireworks. And they’re safer than the real kind to boot.
I want to have a party just so I can serve your cupcakes:)
Amanda, I love thsese! Wonderfully made and so festive!
Brilliant Idea! These cupcakes look divine, what does the frosting consist of? The attention to detail of the fireworks and start dust absolutley make the cupcake!
LOVE!!!
These cupcakes are too cute! Does anyone know where to get this particular start dust from?? From what I could see it looks like an edible sparkle dust.
i like to read your posts. thanks for this one.
I’m going to try this! Thanks!
ah…a sugar explosion. my favorite kind.
These are adorable, Amanda!
These are so fun! I am inspired!
Beautiful! Perfect for my party tomorrow night! Happy New Year to you!
These are lovely! Happy new year!
Love this tutorial, I want to share it with our readers. I will be writing about it today on Party Cupcake Ideas, please email me if you want me not to. Obviously it will have all the credits and links… It should be up in an hour or so, so please have a look and let me know if you want me to remove it.
So that’s how you do it!!!
They look absolutely delish, of course!
Hope you have a Happy New Year!
These look so yummy! I love the glitter on the white chocolate. (And too funny about dear daughter and the silver glitter!)
Read this a few hours after being invited to a last minute between-the-holidays lunch this week; lunch was the next day. Had all the ingredients in the house and went at it. YUM. Everything came out so wonderfully! Thank you for sharing your skills yet again! Of course, my dark chocolate decorations looked a bit more like pitch forks than fireworks…but the hostess of the lunch insisted they looked like reindeer antlers – so we just went with that! happy new year!
This is such a great idea! Thanks for sharing it. I am now subsribing to your feed.
I LOVE these; perfect for NYE!
These cupcakes (along with everything you make actually
are adorable!! I love how you make everything seem so simple! I am going to attempt to make your rainbow cake for my birthday this weekend.
Also, I would love to submit a picture of one of your cakes to Sunday Sweets at Cake Wrecks.com but I want to have your permission first. Please let me know if this is something you would be interested in.
Beautiful! I’m looking forward to YOUR 2011, as you always keep me inspired! xoxo
Friend! You are ALL OVER the place these days! It seems like I can’t read a blog without someone crediting you for your awesomeness! Just wanted to tell you how much fun I have seeing your name on blogs and thinking “Ahh, I remember her back before she was a big ole famous baker lady!” Soak it in- no one deserves success more than you!
Amanda, I love your blog! You’ve really inspired me to get baking more and I’m enjoying the challenge. Well, I decided to try making your piped white choc decorations for the top of a 4th of July “fireworks” cake. They bombed! The choc wouldn’t melt properly, and so wouldn’t pipe smoothly. I tried a couple of times as you directed before melting the choc slowly in a bowl, thinking I would drizzle it off the spoon in a firework shape. Still no luck. And these were new white choc chips, too. What did I do wrong?
These fireworks would be great in red, white and blue for Independence Day.
These were so easy and so fun!!! Thank you!!!!