Are you thinking of what to prepare for your children's birthday party? Well, you can try to make some Elmo cupcakes then.  This is a fun way of using alternative approach when it comes to using a traditional cake for a party.  If you are a big fan of Sesame Street and you grew up watching it, you had probably Elmo already (he's my favorite character actually).  This character is a funny and lovable red little monster with a silly voice that's why is so hard to forget amongst kids.  So a sesame street theme party would be perfect with Elmo cupcakes sitting on the table as a center piece, I'm sure its going to be interesting and catchy. 

First you have to have the necessary tools to create these cute cupcakes.  Everything might be found in your everyday kitchen already if not a run around the nearest shop would not be a problem.  You can either make your own cupcakes or just preorder them from a pastry shop. 

1.  Have a ready made cupcakes a red velvet ones would be excellent each piece is as good as one serving, so just count the number of guests so to determine the number of cupcakes needed, keep some extra in case.

2.  White frosting and a red food coloring agent. An off white frosting would be difficult to blend with the red coloring.

3.  Black rope licorice

4.  White wafers

5.  Black decorating gel.  Use a pastry bag with a thin writing tip.

6.  Orange gum drops.

Here are the steps;

1.  Blend frosting with the red coloring agent (not too red though).

2.  Cover the top of each cupcake with the tinted frosting thoroughly and consistently.

3.  Using a round pastry cutter, cut round pieces of wafers then place it on top to form the eyes

4.  Place a drop of black decorating gel on top of each wafer.

5.  Place the orange gum drop in the middle of the cupcake to form the nose.

6.  Create a curved strip of black licorice to form the mouth.  Then place each decorated cupcakes on a cupcake tree to make it more appealing.

 So now you have created an easy and very special decorative and delicious cupcakes are that kids will surely.  You did not only make the occasion special but very creative as well.  Follow the simple steps and you would have these amazing cupcakes ready in no time at all.

Cakes are the pie which are made for an occasion like birthdays, anniversaries etc. People like to have cakes and pie on their birthday or anniversary. These are the dessert or starters of the party. You distribute toffees, cakes to your friends on your birthday party. There are many varieties of cakes prepared by the people at their home or they buy them from bakery shops. Plum cakes, rum cakes, elmo cupcakes, vanilla cakes, chocolate cakes, black forest are some favorite cakes of everyone. Elmo cakes are prepared by moulds. These moulds are available in market at any stores. They are very delicious to taste also have shows your creativity and skill to make cup cakes. These cakes can be prepared in any shape and size and with any flavor you like.

Ingredients to make elmo cupcakes.

• First of all you need moulds for you cup cakes.
• Decide the flavor of the cake which one you want to make.
• White frosting and other color frosting.
• Coloring agent.
• Wafers of same color for decoration.
• Gum drops, eggs.
• Decorating gel.
• Baking powder.
• Flour.

These cakes are very delicious and attractive. You can make these cakes in any shape and decorate them with funny faces or any image you want to. You can also buy these cakes from bakery shops whish are prepared by trained chef. These cakes are available in all the flavors. You can also make this cake at your home.

Instruction to make good elmo cupcakes.

• Make a blend of flour and baking powder.
• Mix the frosting agent and coloring agent into paste.
• Put it in an oven for 2 to 5 minutes to bake these pies.
• Decorate the cake with wafers.
• Put a drop of decorating gel on top of wafers.
• Create any shape you like, you can make funny faces with other decorating stuffs.

Delicious cupcakes are prepared to eat and distribute it to your friends. These cakes do not contain many calories and are very good at taste. These are easy to prepare and tales less time; decoration of the cupcakes takes some time as it needs a concentration for consistency and good representation with symmetry. You can find the recipes for different cup cakes on number of website and recipes books. There are number of books written by chefs for different cup cakes. Cupcakes are becoming more poupalr specially with kids. Kids are very fond of cakes and they like it maximum.