You can visit my post on Party Biscuits at Pink Frosting’s online party planning website.

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Kathryn

Beautiful Butterfly Cake Decoration Sets - Bring the captivating flight of the butterfly to life with our stunning assortment of cake ornaments. The carefully selected variations in size and design are ideal to create a delicate fluttering effect.  Choose from four colours – blushing glamour in pink, something blue, garden charm green or natural elegance.  The butterflies are made to look authentic – a designer assortment of complementary colours, designs, and sizes is included in each package.

Bite Me Cupcake Wrappers - Create the perfect cupcake or tasty afternoon treat with a funny BITE ME cupcake wrapper from Pink Frosting.  Our designer, laser-cut cupcake wrappers are perfect for creating a very special cupcake treat for guests, friends and family at any celebration from weddings to baby showers, and Christmas to Halloween.  

Grand Display for Cupcakes - Take your cupcake extravaganza to the next level with this cupcake stand. Each tier can be displayed individually or stacked to suit your needs. Depending on how you stack the tiers the cupcake tower will hold 45 to 75 large cupcakes!The creative design is sure to compliment your decor and delight your guests.  In combination with our cupcake baking cups in black and white, as well as our beautiful laser cut cupcake wrappers, you will create a cupcake display to take your guests’ breath away!

It’s a Boy and It’s a Girl Cupcake Wrappers – Our It’s a Boy design laser-cut cupcake wrapper easily assembles to slip your favourite cupcake or candy-filled cup into for a marvelous display.  Create a beautiful cupcake tree, set at each place setting as a party favour, the possibilities are endless.

Personalised and Custom Coloured Cupcake Wrappers – Now our famous cupcake wrappers come custom coloured and personalised – perfect for your next party!  We adore them for special occasions like Christenings, weddings and anniversaries to make a unique statement about your special event.

Visit the Pink Frosting cake and cupcake decorations shop online for gorgeous products for your next party.

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Kathryn

If you’re organising a party of any kind, there isn’t a nicer treat for your guests than a beautifully presented cupcake.  Of course, I am a little biased towards these little morsels of great taste and fun (just look at the Pink Frosting logo!), but cupcakes truly are an easy way to create a beautiful cake presentation for your celebration.  In my series of party presentation ideas, I’m going to look at beautiful ways to style up your party without too much investment in time or money – after all, most of our customers at Pink Frosting’s online party shop are busy, busy, busy and want to create a celebration that looks spectacular without spending days tinkering away making crafts.

To present a gorgeous cupcake for your party, first start with a standard cupcake.  This is my basic recipe:

• 2 cups self-raising flour, sifted
• 3/4 cup caster sugar
• 3/4 cup milk
• 125g butter, melted, cooled
• 2 x 59g eggs, beaten
• 1 teaspoon Vanilla Essence

Method:

1. Preheat oven to 200°C. Grease a 12 x 1/3-cup capacity muffin pan. Alternatively, line holes with paper cases. Combine flour and caster sugar in a bowl. Make a well in the centre.
2. Add milk, butter, eggs and vanilla to flour mixture. Using a large metal spoon, stir gently to combine.
3. Spoon mixture into prepared muffin pan. Bake for 12 to 15 minutes, or until a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean. Stand in pan for 5 minutes before transferring to a wire rack to cool.
4. Once your cupcakes are cool, frost them with a swirly buttercream.   Here’s our easy how to create a swirly buttercream top on your cupcakes demonstration.

Now you’re ready to present the cupcakes and make them suit your theme.  No matter what you are celebrating, Pink Frosting’s cupcake decorations shop has a huge range of themed cupcake toppers, decorations, racks and presentation stands, and cupcake wrappers to suit your style. 

Using cupcake wrappers is so simple!  They come flat packed, so take one end of the wrapper with each hand and hug the wrapper around the cupcake until the ends meet.  Then loop the smaller end through the slit (outside to inside so you’re hiding the ends) and you have a beautifully wrapped cupcake!  From there, you can place your cupcakes into a cupcake rack or stand for beautiful presentation instead of a cake, or if you’re using the cupcakes as favours, carefully place the cupcakes into a cupcake box and tie a coordinating ribbon around it’s centre.  Perfection and it only took about an hour from start to finish.

Here are some gorgeous cupcake wrappers presented perfectly for your inspiration:

Happy Celebrating!

Kathryn

Start with buttercream icing.  The best recipe is here:  Best Pink Frosting Recipe in the World!  You will also need a 1M open star cake decorating tip which you can buy at Bakery Sugarcraft, as well as disposable cake piping bags which you can purchase at any supermarket.

Step 1: 

Hold Open Star Decorating Tip 1M approximately 0.5 – 1 cm above cupcake top at a 90° angle to cupcake surface. Pipe a spiral of icing, beginning at the outer edge and working inward.

Step 2:

Stop pressure; pull tip away.

Step 3:

Pipe a second spiral, smaller (not as wide) on top. End spiral at centre. Stop pressure; pull tip straight up and away.

Voila.  Now you can create some beautiful cupcakes like these amazing creations! 

I would love to see your swirly cupcake creations!

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Kathryn

Halloween Animals cupcakes by Cupcakes and Corsets:

Brains cupcakes (not for the faint hearted, or the vegetarians in the audience!).  Loving the clever use of whipped cream by Cake Eater Bakery:

Loving the colour and simplicity of these fun Halloween sugar decorations on coloured frosting by Cake by Sugar in London, UK:

These monster cupcakes by Bakingdom are really easy to make at home and are perfect for a spooky party for young kids as well as Halloween:

And these sweet pumpkin themed cupcakes by Bella Bella Cupcakes are a gorgeous Autumn cupcake as well as a Halloween cupcake for those who prefer to not be spooky:

And finally, my you can always find excellent inspiration for your Halloween cupcakes at Wilton’s brilliant website, filled with great ideas and also how-tos for the home cupcake (cake and cookie) baker and decorator.  Here are three of my favourites from this year’s range:

I hope these gorgeous cupcakes provide some great inspiration for your Halloween celebrations this weekend!

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Kathryn

This gorgeous little cupcake by Bettie’s Cakes just looked so much like it was made for Pink Frosting, I just had to share.  I couldn’t eat it – it’s too beautiful!

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Kathryn

Enjoy shopping and thank you for your support in helping Pink Frosting become one of Australia’s online success stories and best-loved stores.

Happy Celebrating!

Kathryn

I have been testing pink frosting recipes for years.  Surprised?  The very reason I chose to name Pink Frosting, Pink Frosting is because pink frosting reminds me of special events, very happy occasions and fun moments with my nearest and dearest.  I’ve tried and tested so many pink frosting recipes over time, the calories would make you burst at the seams.  Now, I am declaring the best pink frosting recipe in the world is found!  Thank you, finally, Smitten Kitchen!

Swiss Buttercream

For a wedding cake (or most of one, depending on the size)
2 cups of egg whites (approx. 12 large)
3 cups sugar
5 cups butter, softened (2 1/2 pounds, 10 sticks)
1 tablespoon vanilla extract

For a 9-inch cake (plus filling, or some to spare)
1 cup sugar
4 large egg whites
26 tablespoons butter, softened (3 sticks plus 2 tablespoons)
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

For the tiniest amount, if you’re just practicing (or enough to cover and fill the 4-inch cake pictured)
1/4 cup sugar
1 large egg white
6 tablespoons butter, softened
1/4 teaspoon vanilla

Whisk egg whites and sugar together in a big metal bowl over a pot of simmering water. Whisk occasionally until you can’t feel the sugar granules when you rub the mixture between your fingers.

Transfer mixture into the mixer and whip until it turns white and about doubles in size. (Here’s a tip: when you transfer to the mixer, make sure you wipe the condensation off the bottom of the bowl so that no water gets into the egg whites. This can keep them from whipping up properly.)

Add the vanilla.

Finally, add the butter a stick at a time and whip, whip, whip.

Deb note: Do not have a panic attack when this takes a while to come together (though I did every time). One super-large batch took 15 minutes, but it did and will come together. Patience, young Jedis.

And, to make it pink:  drop in slowly, very slowly, red food colouring until you get your desired pink shade.  Voila!

The gorgeous pink frosting cupcake mosaic is from Sweet Jessie’s sweet blog.

Happy Celebrating!

Kathryn

I’m in true Halloween party planning mode right now and I found this fantastic haunted house cake on the Wilton website this morning which suits my plans of creating a haunted house party so perfectly!

This old haunt is custom-built with Colour Flow windows and doors, gingerbread roof panels and royal icing fences and turrets.  It’s probably a little complicated for me, but I’m willing to give it a try or at the very least be truly inspired by its scarily, eerily, ghoulishness.

All of the instructions are over at Wilton’s fantastic baking website.  I defy you not to get lost in their treasure trove of inspirational galleries and ideas!  Many of the Wilton products can be found in Australia at Pink Frosting’s online party shop, and you’ll also find amazing Halloween party decorations, invitations and spooky accessories at the Pink Frosting Halloween Party Shop online.

Happy Celebrating!

Kathryn

If you’re anything like me, you know a party needs three things – delicious wine, great decorations, and cake. Being the fashionista that I am, there’s never going to be a plain cake at my parties! I want my cake to be memorable, especially if it’s for a special occasion.  And not that I have anything against iced flowers, but I want decorations that reflect my personal style.

I want whimsy.  I want glamour.  I want GLITZ!

I am so excited about the new range of cake decorations and cake bling from famous Los Angeles cake decorators, Very Different Cakes, now stocked at Pink Frosting for Australian and New Zealand brides and entertainers. 

Now, I definitely can’t afford their cakes (and, given we live in Australia not in Los Angeles, I can’t get them anyway), but I can easily afford their Swarovski crystal cake jewels. You can customise a monogram or have hearts, flowers, and assorted “garden friends,” starting from just five dollars.

Now, that’s fashionable food we can all afford!

Happy Celebrating!

Kathryn