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What you’ll need:

• Pumpkin Spice Cupcakes
• Chocolate icing
• Chocolate sprinkles
• Buttercream icing – medium consistency (we’ve included our recipe at the bottom of the post)
• Gel food coloring – orange and green
• Piping bags (2)
• Leaf piping tip
• Large circle piping tip (size 2A)
• Pretzel sticks

Let’s Decorate Pumpkin Patch Cupcakes!

Use a spatula to ice the tops of the cupcakes with chocolate icing. We used a store bought pre-made icing, but if you have time, you could make your own. We like this recipe from Lyne at Ottawa Mommy Club.

Pour a generous amount of dirt (otherwise known as chocolate sprinkles!) to cover the chocolate icing.

Add the pumpkins. Use a large circle icing tip for this. Apply consistent pressure to the piping bag. As the icing begins to build up, move the tip up, never losing contact with the icing. Stop squeezing when you are happy with the size of the pumpkin, and then lift the tip up and away from the ball.

Add one or two smaller pumpkins to the patch.

Break some pretzel stick stems and then add them to the pumpkins.

Use green icing to pipe leaves onto the pumpkins. To make the leaves squeeze the piping bag tightly at the base of the leaf, and thereleasing the pressure as you pull up and away. Stop squeezing completely and then pull the tip away.

TIP: If your leaves are cracking and don’t want to stick to the pumpkins, your icing may be too stiff, try adding 1tsp of water or milk at a time until you have a medium consistency icing. If your leaves fall flat, your icing may be too soft and you may want to add a bit of icing sugar so it will stiffen a little.

Finally, add more leaves at the base of the pumpkins to fill out the patch.

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Buttercream Icing Recipe

A deliciously creamy buttercream recipe, perfect for cakes, cupcakes, cookies and more. Use it for decorating festive desserts or as a filler.

Course Dessert

Cuisine American

Keyword buttercream, creamy, dessert, icing

Prep Time 15 minutes

Cook Time 0 minutes

0 minutes

Total Time 15 minutes

Servings 1 dozen (cupcakes)

Calories 295kcal

Author Champagne and Sugarplums

Equipment

• Electric mixer

Ingredients

• 1 cup Butter
• 2 tbsp Vanilla extract
• 4 cups Icing Sugar
• 3 tbsps Milk

Instructions

• Use an electric mixer to beat the butter until light and fluffy, 1-2 minutes.
• Add the vanilla flavour and mix well.
• Add the icing sugar, one cup at a time.
• Add milk and mix until thoroughly combined. Creamy and delicious!

We hope you had as much fun decorating these cupcakes as we did! If you need some pumpkin decor to match your dessert – certainly try making our Wine Cork Pumpkin – it’s easy elegance wrapped in DIY.

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What do you need to decorate Campfire Cupcakes?

• Chocolate Cupcakes
• Buttercream Icing
• Food Colouring
• Stick Pretzels
• Mini Marshmallows
• Toothpicks
• Cupcake Liners
• A Lighter
• Piping Bags
• Large Star Icing Tip
• Plastic Wrap

How to decorate Campfire Cupcakes:

• First, make cupcakes using your favourite chocolate cake recipe.
• Once the cupcakes have cooled, break pretzel sticks in half and push them into the cupcakes, creating logs for the fire. Six pretzel pieces look great.
• Using a delicious buttercream icing (our recipe is at the end of this page), create three equal portions of icing.
• Add food colouring to each portion to make one red, one orange and finally, one yellow.
• Place the colours in a single line on top of a piece of saran wrap. One line per colour, side by side.
• Carefully roll the icing into a log shape.
• Place the rolled icing into a prepared pipping bag with a large star tip.
• Carefully pipe the icing onto the cupcake and pretzels. Using a circular motion, starting wide and ending in a pointed tip.
• Now for the charming part! Place a mini marshmallow onto the end of a toothpick and then carefully toast them to create a roasted marshmallow look. Perfect for making tiny s’mores!
• Finally, stick the cute mini marshmallow sticks into the campfire cupcakes to complete these adorable long weekend cupcakes!!

Amazing Campfire Cupcakes

First, make cupcakes using your favourite chocolate cake recipe. We like this one from Vegan Huggs. While they are baking and cooling, let’s begin to make the fiery icing!

Using a delicious buttercream icing (our recipe is at the end of this page), create three equal portions of icing. Add food colouring to each portion to make one red, one orange and finally, one yellow. We strongly recommend using gel colouring over the liquid type. The gel will give more vibrant colours and will not change the consistency of the icing.

Place the colours in a single line on top of a piece of saran wrap. One line per colour, side by side.

Carefully roll the icing into a log shape.

Place the rolled icing into a prepared pipping bag with a large star tip.

Getting back to the cupcakes! Once the cupcakes have cooled, break pretzel sticks in half and push them into the cupcakes, creating logs for the fire. Six pretzel pieces look great.

Once the pretzel sticks are in place, carefully pipe the icing onto the cupcake. Using a circular motion, starting wide and ending in a pointed tip.

Now for the charming part! Place a mini marshmallow onto the end of a toothpick and then carefully toast them to create a roasted marshmallow look. Perfect for making tiny s’mores!

Finally, stick the cute mini marshmallow sticks into the campfire cupcakes to complete these adorable long weekend cupcakes!!

Do you love these Charming Campfire Cupcakes as much as we do? Need more camping ideas, certainly try our Campfire Rotini Pasta, perfect for making at the campsite.

Buttercream Icing

July 9, 2023

by Vicki Tharakan

Cuisine Dessert

Category Summer Long Weekends

Prep Time

15 minutes

Total Time

15 minutes

Ingredients

• 1 Cup Butter
• 2 Tsps Vanilla
• 4 Cups Icing Sugar
• 3 Tbsps Milk

Instructions

• Use an electric mixer to beat the butter until light and fluffy, 1-2 minutes. Add the vanilla flavour and mix well.
• Add the icing sugar, one cup at a time.
• Add milk and mix until thoroughly combined.

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Cupcakes,

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What do you need to make Spiced Rum Cupcakes?

• Flour
• Sugar
• Baking powder
• Salt
• Milk
• Vegetable oil
• Vanilla extract
• Eggs
• Spiced rum
• Butter
• Powdered sugar
• Cinnamon
• Cupcake liners
• Food colouring
• Icing tips and bags
• Sprinkles
• Mixing bowls

How to make Spiced Rum Cupcakes:

• Combine the dry ingredients in a large mixing bowl.
• Mix together the milk, oil, vanilla and eggs in a medium bowl.
• Combine the milk mixture with the dry ingredients and mix thoroughly.
• Add spiced rum into the batter and mix.
• Pour the batter into cupcake liners placed in a baking pan, about 2/3 full.
• Bake at 350 for 15-17 mins. Let cool in the pan for 10 mins after removing from oven and then cool completely on a cooling rack.

Read on to learn how to add the beach-themed cupcake icing design. Perfect after a day on the beach with Dad!

Easy Spiced Rum Cupcakes Tutorial:

First, combine the dry ingredients in a large mixing bowl.

Then, in a medium bowl, mix together the milk, oil, vanilla and eggs.

Pour the wet ingredients into the dry and mix thoroughly.

Add the spiced rum into the batter and mix until well blended.

Finally, pour the batter into cupcake liners laid in a baking pan. Fill the liners about 2/3 full.

Bake at 350°F for 15-17 mins. Let cool in the pan for 10 mins after removing from the oven and then cool completely on a cooling rack before decorating.

Beautiful Beach Themed Cupcakes

Using an electric mixer, combine the butter, cinnamon, vanilla and spiced rum.

Slowly add powdered sugar and then add water as needed to get to the right consistency (it should be stiff but pliable).

Next, colour half of the icing blue. Place both icing colours into piping bags. The light coloured icing with a large tip and the blue icing with a smaller tip.

Pipe two swirls on each cupcake using the light-coloured icing. Then pipe zig-zag lines with the blue icing.

Don’t forget the sprinkles!

We hope you enjoy these Beach-Themed Spiced Rum Cupcakes for a chill Father’s Day as much as we do! If you’re looking for more Father’s Day crafts and recipes, certainly check out our other ideas.

More Father’s Day Recipes:

• Whiskey Bacon Chocolate Cookies
• Father’s Day Espresso Martini
• Over 40 Father’s Day Recipe Ideas
• The Best Homemade Meatball Recipe

Father’s Day Crafts:

• Papa Bear Handprint Craft with Free Printable
• “Rawr the Best” Father’s Day Kids Craft
• Fun Father’s Day Craft That Kids Can Make
• Easy Garden Markers

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Spiced Rum Cupcakes

Course Dessert

Cuisine International

Keyword cupcake, father’s day, spiced rum, vanilla

Prep Time 20 minutes

Cook Time 17 minutes

Decorating 15 minutes

Total Time 52 minutes

Servings 24 Cupcakes

Calories 281kcal

Cost $25

Equipment

• Cupcake liners
• Muffin pan
• Piping bags and tips
• Electric mixer
• Mixing bowls

Ingredients

• 2 1/2 cups Flour 2
• 2 cups Sugar
• 3 tsp Baking powder
• 1 tsp Salt
• 1 cup Milk
• 1/2 cup Vegetable oil
• 1 tbsp Vanilla
• 2 Eggs
• 1/2 cup Spiced rum

Spiced Rum Icing

• 1 cup Butter softened
• 1/2 tsp Cinnamon
• 3 tbsp Spiced rum
• 1 tbsp Vanilla
• 4 cups Powdered sugar

Spinkles

Instructions

• Preheat oven to 350° and line a muffin pan with cupcake liners
• Add flour, sugar, baking powder and salt to a large mixing bowl and combine
• Add milk, vegetable oil, vanilla, and eggs to a medium sized bowl and combine
• Add the wet ingredients to the dry and mix until well combined
• Slowly add the spiced rum to the batter until combined
• Fill the cupcake liners about 2/3 of the way full and bake for 15-17 minutes
• Remove the cupcakes from the oven and allow to cool in the pan for about 10 minutes and then transfer to cooling racks to cool completely

Spiced Rum Icing

• Beat the butter and cinnamon with an electric mixer until smooth
• Add the powdered sugar a little at a time until it is all mixed in
• Add the vanilla and spiced rum (and water as needed) until icing is smooth

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If you like a nice high twirl of frosting – we definitely do! – we suggest doubling the ingredients. This will ensure you have enough frosting to generously decorate two dozen cupcakes.

What you’ll need:

• Chocolate cupcakes (recipe below)
• Cupcake liners
• Peppermint buttercream frosting (recipe below)
• Piping bag
• Large star piping tip
• Green gel food colouring
• Mixer
• Muffin tin

Chocolate Cupcakes with Peppermint Frosting

Make the chocolate cupcake batter using the recipe below. Line a muffin tin with liners and then fill with each cup with three generous tablespoons of batter.

Bake the cupcakes in the oven for about 20 mins.

In an electric mixer, cream together butter and vegetable shortening. We chose to use shortening in this frosting recipe, opposed to all butter, because we wanted to get a real white frosting. Using all butter will taste a little bit better, but will make a more cream colour frosting.

Add powdered sugar, one cup at a time and mix well.

Divide the frosting in half and colour one bowl green. We recommend using a gel food colouring as the liquid kind can dilute the texture of the frosting.

Transfer the frosting in two lines onto plastic wrap and then roll into a log. You could also use a spatula to fill a piping bag directly with the two colours of icing. It’s a little bit of a messier method but works just as well.

Place the plastic wrap frosting log into a piping bag, with a large star tip attached.

Decorate the cupcakes with large twirls of frosting. Starting of the outside of the cupcake and pipe circles, moving inward, allowing the frosting to pile up on itself until you reach a peak. Then stop applying pressure to the piping bag and pull it away from the cupcake.

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Chocolate Cupcakes with Peppermint Frosting

Chocolate may be the ultimate cake flavour and peppermint happens to perfectly complement it. Luckily, just in time for St. Patrick's Day, when you put them together you get a delicious combination is hard to resist. Upgrade your March 17th celebration this year by making these Chocolate Cupcakes with Peppermint Frosting – they happen to go perfectly with a pint of Guinness too!

Course Dessert

Cuisine American, Canadian

Keyword Chocolate, cupcake, frosting, green, minty, St. Patrick’s Day, white

Prep Time 30 minutes

Cook Time 20 minutes

Decorating Time 10 minutes

Total Time 1 hour

Servings 24 Cupcakes

Calories 301kcal

Cost $30

Equipment

• Mixer
• Two mixing bowls
• Two medium bowls
• Cupcake liners
• Muffin tin
• Piping bag
• Large star tip
• Kettle

Ingredients

Cupcakes

• 1 3/4 cups Flour
• 2 cups Sugar
• 3/4 cup Unsweetened Cocoa powder
• 2 tsp Baking soda
• 1 tsp Baking powder
• 1/2 tsp Salt
• 2 Eggs
• 1 cup Brewed coffee
• 1 cup Heavy cream Thicker milk can be used as a substitute
• 1/2 cup Vegetable oil
• 1 tsp Vanilla extract

Peppermint Frosting

• 1/2 cup Butter
• 1/2 cup Vegetable shortening
• 4 cups Powdered sugar
• 2 tbsp Milk
• 2 tsp Peppermint extract

Instructions

Cupcakes

• Preheat oven to 350°.
• Fill a muffin tin with cupcakes liners.
• In a mixing bowl, sift together flour, sugar, cocoa powder, baking soda, baking powder, and salt.
• In a separate bowl, whisk together eggs, coffee, cream, oil and vanilla.
• Pour the coffee mix into the dry mixture and mix until thoroughly combined (about 2 mins).
• Add three generous tablespoons of batter to each cupcake liner.
• Bake 20-25 minutes. Let cool completely before decorating.

Peppermint Frosting

• In a mixer, cream together butter and shortening.
• Beat in the peppermint extract and combine thoroughly.
• Add the powdered sugar, one cup at a time, until fully mixed into the butter mixture.
• Add the milk and beat until light fluffy.

We hope you enjoy these St. Patrick’s Day Chocolate Cupcakes with Peppermint Frosting! If you’re looking for more St. Pat’s inspiration, check out our Rustic Lucky Signboard and our Clover Chair Sashes. We have tons of St. Patrick’s Day DIY, crafts and recipes for you to choose from. Head on over to our St. Patrick’s Day page.

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Ever wonder what gives pumpkin flavour that spicy taste? Surprisingly, it’s really just a simple blend of a few grocery spices:

• cinnamon
• ginger
• cloves
• nutmeg
• allspice

Let’s Bake – Sweet and Spicy Pumpkin Cupcakes

What you’ll need:

• Cupcake ingredients
• Cupcake liners
• Muffin tin
• Icing
• Mixing bowls
• Mixer

Whisk together dry ingredients. Flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and then spices in a medium bowl and then set aside.

Mix together melted butter, eggs, brown sugar, pumpkin puree and vanilla until combined.

Add the dry ingredients to the wet and mix until combined. Try to avoid over-mixing the batter as this can lead to denser cupcakes.

Scoop batter into liners. Fill to 3/4 of the way full and then bake for 18-21 minutes. We like to check them at 18 minutes with a toothpick to see if they’re done. If there’s still a little batter on the toothpick, let them go another 1 to 2 minutes and then check again.

For frosting we used a ready made cram cheese icing and then piped it on with a 1A tip.

We hope you had fun fall baking with us today! If you’re ready for more pumpkin spice recipes, check out our Pumpkin Spiced Pumpkin Seeds – a double hit of pumpkin flavour.

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Sweet and Spicy Pumpkin Cupcakes

Delicious and fluffy sweet and spicy pumpkin cupcake recipe! Top with buttercream frosting or decorate with a fun Halloween theme!

Course Dessert

Cuisine American

Keyword cupcake, easy, pumpkin, sweet, sweet and spicy

Prep Time 10 minutes

Cook Time 20 minutes

0 minutes

Total Time 30 minutes

Servings 1 dozen

Calories 187kcal

Author Champagne and Sugarplums

Ingredients

• 1 cup Flour
• 1 tsp Baking Powder
• 1/2 tsp Baking Soda
• 1/4 tsp Salt
• 1 tsp Ground Cinnamon
• 1/4 tsp Ground Nutmeg
• 1/2 tsp Ground Allspice
• 1/4 tsp Ground Ginger
• 1/4 tsp Ground Cloves
• 1/2 cup Butter melted
• 2 Eggs
• 1 cup Brown Sugar
• 1 cup Pumpkin Puree
• 1 tsp Vanilla

Instructions

• Preheat oven to 350.
• Line a muffin tin with liners
• Whisk together dry ingredients – flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and spices in a medium bowl and then set aside.
• Mix together melted butter, eggs, brown sugar, pumpkin puree and vanilla until combined.
• Add the dry ingredients to the wet and mix until combined.
• Scoop batter into liners, filling to 3/4 of the way full.
• Bake for 18-21 minutes.

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