Valentine's Day Cupcake

• Show your loved ones how much you care on Valentine's Day with a sweetly decorated cupcake. Use a narrow spatula to place two pink frosting stripes inside of the piping bag. Add white frosting and then squeeze out on parchment paper until the colors blend together and you get a striped effect. Frost the cupcake with the striped frosting. Sprinkle candy hearts in purple, red and pink on the frosting. Finish the look by adding some large chocolate lips or a large heart on the cupcake.
  
  

Easter Cupcakes

• Easter cupcakes are a fun way to usher in the spring season. Frost the top of your cupcakes with butter cream icing in pastel shades of pale pink, pale orange, pale yellow, mint green or lavender. Tint coconut a mint green or light brown shade and place it on the center so it looks like a nest of grass. Dab a bit of frosting on the back of a jellybean and place it in the nest. The frosting will help secure the jelly bean in place. Add a few more jellybeans to the center so it looks like a bird's nest. Using a small cake decorating tip, create thin squiggly lines around the edges of the frosted cupcakes. The squiggly lines look best if they contrast in color to the rest of the frosting.
  
  

Halloween Cupcakes

• Serve a platter of morbid-looking Halloween cupcakes. Frost your cupcakes with a dark brown icing. Smash Oreo cookies and sprinkle on top of the cupcake so it looks like dirt. Stick a graham cracker on one side of the dirt for a grave marker. Write "RIP" on the cracker with black icing. Pipe green grass along the graham cracker. Press a gummy hand into the frosting so it appears as if there is a hand reaching from the grave. Tiny candy spiders crawling along the grave also work well.
  
  

Christmas Cupcakes

• Delight your guests with a batch of Christmas-themed cupcakes. Frost the top of the cupcake with white or red frosting. Use a cake decorating tip to create small green rosettes with butter cream icing. Place the rosettes next to each other so it forms a holiday wreath. Pipe a red bow with butter cream icing on top of the wreath or use thin strips of red licorice. Let the edges of the bow drape down toward the center of the wreath. Sprinkle cake decorations like nonpareils or colored sugar in bright colors on top of the green rosettes so it looks like a decorated wreath.