Cupcake Ideas for Little Boys

Cupcakes are easy for little kids to handle and eat, so making a batch of creative cupcakes for your child's birthday or another special event can be a refreshing alternative to a larger cake. There are a variety of different flavors and decorating themes you can make to suit little boys, so incorporate your child's likes and interests into your final design. Add this to my Recipe Box.

Sports

If your child likes to watch or play sports, base your cupcake decorating scheme around this interest. For instance, decorate the tops of your cupcakes to look like sports balls, including basketballs, soccer balls, footballs and tennis balls. Another option is to set up your cupcakes in a rectangular formation to make a cupcake cake; decorate the tops of the cupcakes so that each makes up a portion of a complete image of a sports field or court. You can also make the cupcakes to look like little jerseys with a guest's name written on each one; use the colors of your child's favorite team if he has one, or make black-and-white referee jerseys.

Outer Space

For out of this world cupcakes, base your decorating theme on various elements of outer space. Make the top of each cupcake look like a different planet by using a variety of frosting colors. Or, decorate the top of each cupcake to look like an astronaut's helmet or an alien's face. Focus on outer space transportation methods by arranging the cupcakes to form a larger space shuttle or rocket ship cupcake cake, or decorate the tops of the cupcakes to look like UFOs.

Dinosaurs

Paleontologists in the making should get a kick out of dinosaur-themed cupcakes. If you've got a steady hand, hand-draw a variety of different dinosaurs or fossils onto the tops of the cupcakes. You can use dinosaur stencils or cookie cutters to cut these shapes out of items like fondant, fruit roll-ups or sugar cookie dough, or you can use small plastic dinosaur figurines to stick on the tops of the cupcakes. Or, combine the baked cupcakes to form a large dinosaur cupcake cake like a brontosaurus.

Dirt and Worms

Little boys are notorious for playing in the dirt and mud, so play off this image by making a "dirty" cupcake. Frost your cupcakes with chocolate frosting and then dip them into a bowl of crushed up chocolate cookies to act as the "dirt" on the top of the cupcake. Add gummy worms or other creepy crawly candy insects as a playful garnish for your cupcakes.