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Birdcage Cupcakes~ Cake Decorating Blog Tutorial

April 2, 2012 By Melissa Diamond 21 Comments

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Today I’m going to show you how to make the cutest birdcage cupcakes! Cupcake toppers add a high dose of cuteness to any cupcake project, and these adorable toppers are no exception. Whether you are making these for a birthday or bridal shower, these are sure to bring smiles!

Birdcage Cupcake Tutorial by MyCakeSchool.com! Free step by step cake decorating tutorial! MyCakeSchool.com online cake tutorials, recipes, videos, and more!

 

Last week we added a sweet little birdcage cake video tutorial to the site, and as it turns out–people LOVE birdcage cakes! Who knew? I think it was one of the biggest responses we’ve had to a cake on our Facebook page. I guess everyone is in the mood for springtime themes, and birds…lots of birds!

For today’s cake decorating tutorial we decided to continue the cute bird theme just a little bit longer — This time, we are working with cupcakes. These are so much fun!

 

Let’s get started!

 

First, I rolled out some fondant (tinted Americolor Sky Blue). I kneaded in a little bit of tylose to help it dry more quickly and also so that I could roll it a little thinner.

Then, I took my oval cookie cutter and cut out birdcage shapes. You can see that there is no need to cut the entire oval…just enough to get the shape that you need.

Adorable bird and birdcage themed cupcakes from MyCakeSchool.com's free cupcake decorating tutorial!

I cut out pink birdcages too (mine are tinted with Americolor Deep Pink). Then, I took some piping consistency royal icing and used a Wilton tip 2 to pipe on my birdcage. ** You could also use a crusting vanilla buttercream frosting! You just have to be very careful when applying your toppers not to smudge the crusted frosting.
Adorable Birdcage Cupcakes from MyCakeSchool.com's free cake decorating tutorial! Once the royal had a chance to set (which only took about 15 minutes or so), I piped on royal icing flowers.  You can see that these are all very simple–lots of little dots and swirlies and teadrop shaped leaves.  (My royal icing leaves are tinted with Americolor Electric Green).

Adorable Birdcage Cupcakes from MyCakeSchool.com's free cake decorating tutorial!

 

Next, we needed some little birds!  To make them, I just flattened a small ball of fondant into a circle and then gave it a little pinch to form the tail.  After a few minutes, the fondant had set enough that I could draw on an eye and wing with a food coloring pen– I also pressed on a little tiny yellow fondant beak (but yellow royal would have worked well too) –  I glued it to the cage with a dot of royal icing.Adorable Birdcage Cupcakes from MyCakeSchool.com's free cake decorating tutorial!

Here are some more birdies waiting in the wings.  :0) –I wound up not needing all of them…but I used several.  The larger ones are great all by themselves for cupcake toppers.Adorable Birdcage Cupcakes from MyCakeSchool.com's free cake decorating tutorial!

 

Adorable Birdcage Cupcakes from MyCakeSchool.com's free cake decorating tutorial!

I also decided to mix it up a little bit for those of you who don’t want fondant cupcake toppers—this simple design also goes nicely with our theme~

First, pipe on a swirl of crusting buttercream onto a cupcake (any medium to large round tip will work fine with this). We are using our Fluffy Vanilla Buttercream Frosting. (Our Classic Vanilla Buttercream Frosting is a good choice also if you prefer to use a frosting that does not contain shortening.)

After applying your frosting, wait a few minutes and then smooth with a Viva brand paper towel. I often pipe several at a time and then go back and smooth after a few minutes have passed. (Viva has no impressions or quilting). You’ll hear this method often referred to as the “Viva Paper Towel Method” of smoothing.

Adorable Birdcage Cupcakes from MyCakeSchool.com's free cake decorating tutorial!

Next, I just piped intersecting lines of vanilla buttercream and embellished with a squiggle here and there–and small buttercream flowers on top.  All of these accents were piped with a Wilton tip 2.

Adorable Birdcage Cupcakes from MyCakeSchool.com's free cake decorating tutorial!

 

I hope you’ll experiment with the designs above and make them your own!  Also, as a little side note, a crusting buttercream could be used to pipe the birdcages if you would rather not make royal icing.  Cookie birdcages would make sweet cake toppers too!  Whatever you do, I know that your family and friends (and customers) will LOVE them!

Here’s a group shot~

Gorgeous Birdcage Cupcake Tutorial by MyCakeSchool.com! Free tutorial!

 

If you need a good white cupcake recipe, we love our White Almond Sour Cream Cupcake Recipe from scratch (this is the conventional mixing method version), as well as our  White Cake (doctored cake mix) Recipe if you prefer working with cake mixes. Enjoy!!

 

 

As I mentioned above, we also have an adorable Birdcage Cake video tutorial in our tutorial section for our members! Sweet Birdcage Cake Tutorial. This is  buttercream frosted cake with fondant accents. It’s a great design for spring and matches these birdcage cupcakes perfectly!

Birdcage Cake Video Tutorial by My Cake School! Member video tutorial section. This cake design is perfect for spring!

 

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Filed Under: Spring, Blog Tutorials, Custom Toppers & Figure Modeling, Cupcake, Cake Pop, etc. Methods, Seasonal & Holiday, Animals/Animal Print Tagged With: cupcakes, Birds, birdcage

Comments

  1. Cakeamonga April 2, 2012 at 11:02 pm

    very very cute! So pretty & you can use these to cover sugar cookies with as well. make the cookies the same way you made the fondant cage bases.

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  2. becky culver April 2, 2012 at 11:04 pm

    I so love bird cages, not sure why just do. these are the cutest ive seen. so going to make these. thank you for the inspiration

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  3. Elaine Scotton April 2, 2012 at 11:20 pm

    so adorable…i also saw them as a cookie decoration…or a small cookie topper

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  4. Sue {munchkin munchies} April 2, 2012 at 11:51 pm

    These are so SWEET! Such pretty color combos too. Just darling!

    Reply
  5. alsearer April 3, 2012 at 12:49 am

    Why cant I get my frosting the right consistency to use the viva method?! I’ve tried like 3 recipes and no matter what I do it doesn’t crust the way it should! I put the paper towel down and it pulls up frosting.

    I love this tutorial! Very cute idea!!!

    Reply
  6. BeBe April 3, 2012 at 7:26 am

    Hi Alsearer, first, let me ask if your cake is at room temperature when you apply your frosting? If your cake is cold, the frosting will not crust for a very, very long time…..that could be the problem. It should be that you frost your cake with a medium consistency crusting buttercream recipe, wait 5 minutes or so, (depending on humidity of your area) touch with your finger and if no frosting sticks to your finger it is ready to smooth with a Viva paper towel. Let me hear from you.

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  7. Sadia Wasim April 3, 2012 at 11:51 am

    Very cute idea for cupcakes.
    Bebe i have the same problem but when my cake comes to room temperature then the cream crusts fine.

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  8. Kathie Shea April 3, 2012 at 2:56 pm

    OMG! These are so cute! I wait so impatientely for your next tutorial! You’re the best! Thanks

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  9. Los dulces de Victoria April 3, 2012 at 4:22 pm

    Hi Melissa!! I just wanted to thank you for sharing such a great tutorial!!! : )

    Reply
  10. Melissa Diamond April 3, 2012 at 10:51 pm

    Everybody, thank you so much for your nice comments!!

    Reply
  11. alsearer April 4, 2012 at 2:21 pm

    I think you just solved my problem!!!! I always freeze my cakes and frost them just out of the freezer. That’s easier for me but I guess not the right thing to do…? I’ll try to let everything thaw before trying next time!!! :)

    I love this blog soo much! Being honest I can’t afford to sign up but I would love love to see everything else you post! One day ;)

    Reply
  12. BeBe April 4, 2012 at 3:21 pm

    Hi Alsearer, I’m glad that helped.

    Reply
  13. Applemom3 April 4, 2012 at 11:56 pm

    How fun! Can use these for Mother’s Day too I think!

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  14. queenbee April 9, 2012 at 7:49 pm

    could these be any sweeter….any CUTER….the answer, NOOOOOOOOOOO. I will be making these for myself for Mothers Day. Do you remember your little cupcake bird from last year?? It was a teal blue with a yellow whimsy hat? How cute would THAT be in the center of all these sweet cupcakes….oh I can see it now. :)

    Reply
  15. SugarSwirls May 25, 2012 at 7:04 pm

    SO ADORABLE!!! You are amazing! Thank you SO much for your tutorials and wise advice to all.

    Reply
  16. houda el haimeur June 5, 2012 at 10:18 am

    hi
    if you could provide us with some vintage cupcake totorials, the ones with perals and flowers made out of fondant,

    thx a lot

    Reply
  17. Melissa Diamond June 6, 2012 at 12:27 am

    Hi Houda–Good idea. Thanks for the suggestion!

    Reply
  18. Askanam August 10, 2012 at 4:26 pm

    you are amazing, these are so so cute!

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  19. cake it is March 7, 2013 at 4:14 pm

    Beautiful as usual. I can’t wait to do this for an upcoming spring birthday.

    Reply
  20. texasbakergirl May 17, 2013 at 6:27 pm

    Very cute. Very easy peasy. Thanks for the great tutorial.

    Reply
  21. Lara Fayinka April 4, 2017 at 9:28 am

    Thank u for this lovely school. It has helped me alot.thanks

    Reply

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