Frost cupcakes with blue or yellow icing to represent water and sunshine.
Your child has decided that he or she would like a birthday party with a pool or beach theme, which means that the cupcakes you make for the celebration should reflect this warm weather motif. Use some of your little one's favorite beach or pool activities as inspiration when preparing the cupcakes, embellishing them with summery colors, water-oriented decorations, and other tasty accents that will make for even more fun in the sun at the birthday bash. Does this Spark an idea?
Beach Ball Cupcakes
Frost cupcakes with white icing, or add blue food coloring to the icing to make it the color of water. Buy a package of plain sugar cookies at the grocery store and decorate the cookies with icing to look like beach balls. Alternatively, cut fondant in triangular shapes to serve as the sections of the beach ball and outline the cookie in icing. Place a beach ball cookie on top of each cupcake to make a birthday dessert that has two times the sweetness and two times the fun.
Water-Themed Cupcakes
Make the cupcakes look like the beach or a pool by mixing different amounts ot blue food coloring in two or three small bowls of white icing. Spread these lighter and darker shades of blue icing on top of each cupcake with a butter knife using swift, sweeping motions, to create waves. You can even add the food coloring to the cupcake batter to create all-blue cupcakes, or dye the cupcakes blue by using blueberry flavoring. Sprinkle the cupcakes with sugar crystals to create texture, or crumble graham crackers or sugar cookies and sprinkle them along the edges of the dessert to look like sand.
Beach Bear Cupcakes
Ice the cupcakes and position one or two gummy bears or a mini bear cookie in the center of each cupcake. If you're especially crafty, and there's enough room on the cookie, add icing sunglasses or a bathing suit to each. Sprinkle crumbled graham crackers or gingerbread cookies all around the cupcake to look like sand. Stick a mini paper umbrella on the side of each cupcake before serving the treats to guests.
Lifesaver Cupcakes
Ice each cupcake in light blue icing, and cut out white fondant in the shape of a lifesaver. Use small pieces of red fondant to add stripes to each lifesaver before placing one on top of each cupcake. Or, cover the cupcakes in red or white fondant and add a white or clear gummy candy in the shape of a lifesaver to each after adding red stripes to the candy. Sprinkle the cupcakes with blue sugar to resemble drops of water, and to add a little extra sweetness and visual appeal.
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