Homemade cupcakes!

It's always fun to bake en decorate some cupcakes when you have some spare time. 

So that's what I did this weekend!

Hup Holland Hup!

As some of you know, from the 8th of juli the 2012 UEFA European Football Championship takes place in the Ukraine and Poland. I'm from The Netherlands and a fan of the Dutch soccer team. I made these cupcakes to support the Dutch team! 

Stunning Neapolitan rose cake

Source: I am baker

How to: make a buttercream rose

Give your cupcakes a luxurious look with a buttercream rose. It looks difficult but it's so easy with a little practice!

How to: reverse shell decorating technique

Reverse shells look spectacular as top and bottom borders and as framed areas on your cake.

What you need:
- Buttercream icing
- A decorating bag
- Tip 21 


Instruction

Step 1: Fit the decorating bag with tip 21 and fill 1/2 full with medium consistency icing. Hold the decorating bag 45°; the tip should be slightly above the surface. Squeeze bag to form a shell. As you begin to form a shell, squeeze hard, letting the icing fan out. To form curve, lift tip up and over the shell as you move tip from 9:00 (right or left handed) to 12:00 to 6:00. 

Step 2: Relax pressure, lower tip. Pull tip straight towards yourself at 6:00 to form tail.

Step 3: Repeat with another shell, curving from 3:00 (right- or left handed) to 12:00 to 6:00. To continue the reverse shell border, pipe a chain of swirling reverse shells, with the fan end of each new shell covering the tail of the previous shell. If you are making the border on a round cake, turn the cake as you go so that the back of the bag is at 6:00 and you are working towards yourself.

Inspiration: cakes with a rope decoration

Do you want to know how to do this rope decoration technique? Click here!

Cupcake cake

How to: basketweave decorating techniques

Watch this video to see how you can create a basket weave on a cake.

This is a step-by-step video that shows you how!

Do you want to see how you can use the basket weave decorating technique? Click here for some inspiration. 

Cakes with a basket weave technique

Do you want to know how can the basket weave piping yourself? See the how to here!