Cupcake Presentation Ideas

Decorating a batch of cupcakes is not all that you can do to create a unique cupcake presentation. You can also customize the way you display your cupcakes, or the packaging that you use in delivering them. These little details can make all the difference in creating a creative cupcake presentation to give as a gift, to bring to a celebration or just to enjoy with your closest friends and loved ones. Add this to my Recipe Box.

Cupcake Cake

A creative way to present your cupcakes is to arrange them on a cake board in a specific shape, and then to frost them all together to create a cupcake cake. For example, you may shape them into a single round figure, then frost the round figure in blue and green to create the earth, white with red stripes and accents as a baseball, or bright yellow with a smiley face in the center. You can arrange your cupcake cake in any way that you like, frosting the tops of all cupcakes simultaneously to create a single design rather than individually decorating each cupcake.

Packaging Decoration

Tie in the design and decoration of the packaging to suit the design and decoration of the cupcakes themselves. For example, decorate cupcakes in a floral theme, and create a cake board with grass and candy butterflies or ladybugs that you can "plant" the flowers on. Create animal themed cupcakes, and place them on a cake board with plastic fencing along the edges, then create a grassy pasture for the animals. A little bit of creativity can go a long way just in decorating the packaging around your cupcakes to add dimension to the theme.

Say It With Cupcakes

Frost your cupcakes as normal, then take candy letters or frosting and decorator tips and spell out a special message on the cupcake tops for whoever the recipient is. Spell out "Happy Birthday." "Good Luck," "Congratulations" or whatever else you would like to say. If you have extra cupcakes left over, leave them frosted without letters, or add other decorations like stars and hearts to add to the design presentation. If you do not have enough cupcakes, fit several numbers or letters on each cupcake, then arrange them on a cake platter to spell out your saying. There is a lot that you can say simply and easily using cupcakes.