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Over the weekend, Doug and I put together a fun Chinese New Year Celebration for you. Most of the week, we will be sharing the recipes, decorating and crafts we made. We also have a giveaway on Thursday, so stay tuned for that!
These Dragon Cupcakes were the perfect addition to the Chinese New Year Celebration, but you could certainly use them for your dragon lovin’ kiddo’s birthday party. I used bright colors, but you could certainly change the colors to fit the birthday theme.
Make these fun Dragon Cupcakes from HoosierHomemade.com to celebrate the Chinese New Year!
Ingredients
- 8 {or more} regular size cupcakes – I used Orange Flavor Cupcakes {recipe from Cupcake Chronicles Newsletter }
- Decorator Icing or your favorite frosting
- Decorator Tips Giant Round, #12 {round}, #10 {round}, #3 {small round}, #352 {leaf}
- Decorator bags and couplers
- Coloring – Sky blue, No-Taste Red, Orange, Buttercup Yellow, Leaf Green
- 2 dark colored jumbo sprinkles for the eyes
Instructions
- Color icing and fill bags
- Place cupcakes together to form dragon
- Add a #10 tip to the decorator bag with orange frosting
- Pipe on small dots, 2-3 rows on one side of each cupcake, making sure that you are connecting the rows
- Add a #10 tip to the decorator bag with yellow frosting
- Pipe on the remainder of the cupcake
- Add a #352 leaf tip to the decorator bag with blue frosting
- Add “spikes” to the top of one row of orange
- Frost cupcake with green icing and smooth
- Using the bag fitted with #10 Tip and yellow frosting, pipe on tail
- At the base of the tail {where it meets the body} add a few more dots to make it a little thicker
- Pipe on the “spikes” with the #352 leaf tip and blue frosting
- Frost cupcake with green icing and smooth
- Fit a decorator bag with a giant round tip and fill with blue icing
- Pipe on a large circle for the head
- Change blue frosting bag to a #12 tip, pipe on snout
- Add the nostrils with a #3 Tip, I used a lighter shade of blue for the nostrils
- Add a #3 Tip to the bag with red frosting
- Pipe on the horns and tongue
- Add #352 Leaf Tip to the blue frosting and add the ears
- Add a #3 Tip to the bag with white frosting
- Pipe on the eyes and add a couple jumbo sprinkles or other candy
How cute is he? I think we should name him…maybe Denny the Dragon?
We kicked off the Chinese New Year Celebration with Orange Mango Chicken yesterday. It has amazing flavor, and is a quick and easy meal for anytime, not just for the Chinese New Year.
And speaking of celebrations, I wanted to be sure you knew about the Cupcake Competition that Celebrations is hosting.
The Celebrations Cupcake Crown is an annual awards competition to find the most creative cupcake in the country. The winner will receive a $2,500 travel voucher from Wyndham Vacation Rentals valid at locations across the globe!
Here’s how to enter:
- Go to Celebrations.com and upload a photo of your most creative cupcake
- Name your cupcake and in a sentence or two about it
- Click publish to submit your cupcake and you will be entered for a chance to win some awesome prizes
- Voting will be open to the public starting January 30th. through February 13th.
I added my Stiletto Cupcakes, check them out!
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Now it’s your turn…show off your cupcake creations! I’d appreciate a link back and be sure to check out the other cupcakes!
love the dragon! great job L!
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That dragon is just the coolest! Love it! I would also love if you would stop by and share it tomorrow at Mrs Foxs Sweet Party! Happy Cupcake Tuesday!
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That dragon is just too cute for words! We will be having our Chinese New Year celebration on Monday!
Thanks Jenn! I’m working on the post for tomorrow with the rest of the recipes and ideas. Stay tuned…
~Liz
I found this photo via your Flickr photos….I LOVE IT SO MUCH….it is super cute and so original!!! Awesome job!!! Btw LOVE the stiletto cupcakes as well!
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These are beautiful! Thank you so much for this idea. It inspired me to make dragon cupcakes for the holiday which I shared on my blog today: http://www.littlemspiggys.com/2012/01/chinese-new-year-and-dragon-cupcakes.html
Can you send me the info on how to make the Stilletto heels…..I can’t seem to get to that page…..