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    Home » Recipes » Cake Decorating Tutorials

    St. Patrick's Day Cupcakes!

    March 14, 2011 By Melissa Diamond 10 Comments

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    Today we are sharing a collection of festive and fun St. Patrick's Day cupcake designs! Choose one design or several for the most adorable platter of St. Patrick's Day cuteness!

     

     

    Learn to make the cutest St Patrick's Day Cupcakes in this free tutorial by MyCakeSchool.com!

     

    How to Make CUTE & easy St. Patrick's Day Cupcakes

     

    Making our Green Cupcakes...

    We started out by whipping up some quick White (doctored cake mix) Cupcakes.  After scooping the batter into 6 cupcake liners, we decided to change gears and make the rest of our cupcakes green! 

    I used about 12-14 drops of Americolor Mint Green coloring gel.  Since we used white liners, you can really see that green cake showing through!

     

    Let the Cupcake Decorating Begin!

    Now that we have our bright green cupcakes, let's talk decorating!  To frost our cupcakes, I'm using a crusting Fluffy Vanilla Buttercream Frosting. {Classic Vanilla Buttercream is a good choice too if you prefer an all butter (no shortening) recipe}

    As I often do, I used melted candy melts for some quick & simple toppers (Top hats, shamrocks,  & pots of gold!). I'm using pre-colored green candy melts, which I melted in small increments in the microwave until soft.

    Making our Green Candy Coating Cupcake Toppers

    Simply add the melted candy coating into a disposable piping bag, snip the tip, and pipe your shamrocks onto a parchment or waxed paper lined cookie sheet.

    Chill for a few minutes until firm. (These decorations are best handled while chilled.) *** Oops, someone told me that I've made four leaf clovers and not shamrocks! Haha I guess shamrocks have 3 leaves. Oh well. They're good luck anyway! ;0) 

    Adorable St. Patrick's Day Cupcake Tutorial by MyCakeSchool.com!

    Making our Little Leprechauns

    After making the cute top hat cupcake toppers, I decided that at least some of them should have a cute little face to go along with them!  I tinted the fondant for my leprechauns' faces with a tiny speck of copper coloring gel.

    Fun and Simple St. Patrick's Day Cupcake Tutorial by MyCakeSchool.com!

    I think he turned out cute--- but the hat toppers are cute all by themselves too!

    Adorable St. Patrick's Day Cupcake Tutorial by MyCakeSchool.com! Online cake tutorials, recipes, and more!

    Pots of Gold Cupcake Toppers!

    With all of these rainbows, we need pots of gold!Learn How to Make St. Patrick's Day Cupcakes in this MyCakeSchool.com free cupcake tutorial!

    Give Me Lots of Color!

    For a colorful swirl, just smear the inside of your piping bag with a few different colors! You can see in the photo below the swirly, fun colors of buttercream ready to go!

    Adorable St. Patrick's Day Cupcake Tutorial by MyCakeSchool.com!

     

    Rainbows and Miscellaneous St. Patrick's Day Cuteness!

    Time for some closeups--- My rainbow colors & clouds are buttercream piped with a Wilton Tip 3!  Piping the clouds was my favorite part :0) 

    The rows of green shells that you see on some of the cupcakes were piped with a Wilton tip 21.  I sprinkled some gold pixie dust on my pots of gold, and some of my cupcakes are topped with a chocolate gold coin! :0) --

    Adorable St. Patrick's Day Cupcake Tutorial by MyCakeSchool.com! Online cake tutorials, videos, recipes, and more!

    The other end of the platter......

    Adorable St. Patrick's Day Cupcakes! Tutorial by MyCakeSchool.com.

    Group shot!

    Adorable St. Patrick's Day Cupcake Designs by MyCakeSchool.com! Free tutorial!

     

    Don't Miss our Roundup of favorited Rainbow Cakes, Cupcakes, and More!

    Rainbow Cakes and Sweets are perfect for St. Patrick's Day! Find more inspiration in our Rainbow Cake Roundup!

    Rainbow Cake and Cupcake Roundup of Tutorials, Recipes, and Ideas! {As featured on MyCakeSchool.com}

     

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    1. Andie T. March 15, 2011 at 1:00 am

      Welcome back! You know what I'll be doing the next couple of nights ;-)

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    2. BoBissa March 15, 2011 at 12:21 pm

      Very cute. The rainbow swirls came out so nice!

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    3. Caitlin B March 16, 2011 at 9:51 pm

      These are so cute!! I love your website :) you are so creative and talented!

      Reply
    4. Kristin Morris March 19, 2011 at 8:55 am

      These are too adorable!! What tip did you use to ice the cupcakes with the rainbows on top? I love how flat it looks.

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    5. Melissa Diamond March 21, 2011 at 12:34 am

      Thanks everybody! --

      Kristin-- I think that it was a tip 806 (Magic Line) OR a Wilton tip 12. I often just grab whatever is closer...a medium or large round tip, pipe a flat spiral, and then smooth over it with a Viva paper towel once it has crusted. (You can see an example of this in my Valentine's Day Cupcakes blog entry) --

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    6. shuswapcakes February 22, 2012 at 11:37 am

      Great work, my favorite is the pot of gold and the rainbow cupcake. I'm going to melt some chocolate tonight and see what I can pull off. Thanks for posting!

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    7. Sue {Munchkin Munchies) March 12, 2012 at 12:21 pm

      Over-the-top ADORABLE!!! I want to make some RIGHT NOW!

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    8. Lee-Ann March 13, 2012 at 3:33 am

      where do you get the candy melts from please?

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    9. BeBe March 13, 2012 at 11:10 am

      Hi Lee-Ann, I used Wilton brand candy melts that can be found at Hobby Lobby and Michael's. You could also use any kind of candy coating/almond bark.

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    10. Sue {munchkin munchies} March 15, 2012 at 4:11 pm

      Thanks for the great idea! I made some leprechauns to top some bark candy. Of course I liked to your wonderful blog:) Thank you, Melissa!

      Reply

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