Decorating fairy cakes

Fairy cakes are so easy to make and there are so many ways to decorate them. Click through to see how to make some stunning fairy cake decorations.

Fairy cakes are so easy to make. Use this simple recipe and then transform your humble fairy cake into an impressive and irresistible creation using icing and toppers.

Find out how to make different kinds of icing here.

And for more tips and decorating ideas

Cover a cake with icing. Snip mini meringues diagonally and arrange to make flower petals. Add sprinkles to the centre of your meringue flower.

Use bold yellow and orange icing and mix in stripes and spots in browns and blacks as you roll out your icing to make animal prints. Then cover your fairy cakes to take a walk on the wild side.

Use bright green butter icing and pipe over the top of your buns. Model tiny bugs from ready rolled or coloured icing and place on their grassy beds.

Simple but oh so pretty. Pipe cream butter icing in a cupcake swirl and add butterfly toppers. You can model these from icing or buy form specialist cake shops or online stores. Add a sprinkle of edible glitter or edible shimmer spray to make your cakes glimmer.

Another easy peasy but stylish idea. Using a knife, add soft butter icing to your cakes then pop on a fresh or glace cherry to finish.

One for chocoholics - use mounds of chocolate butter icing and add melted chocolate, flakes and chocolate sprinkles to the top for a little slice of heaven.

Be bold with colour. Add bright coloured food dye to butter icing and decorate your cakes. Add contrast with brightly coloured sprinkles and toppers.

Mix mini meringues with butter icing in a delightful squishy way and pipe or mound on top of your fairy cakes for a sweet delight.

Cover your fairy cakes with a pink icing. Use marshmallows for the snouts, halved marshmallows for the ears and add eyes and details with an icing pen.

A stunning fairy cake for anyone who has a bit of patience and skill in modelling icing. You can get the same effect by making several pink petal shapes and arranging in a flower.

Use huge swirls of butter icing (you can buy easy to spray on cupcake icing or use a wide piping bag) and simply add pretty over-sized sprinkles for a simple but effective design.

Use chocolate butter icing and pipe over the top of the cake in swirls. Add chocolate stars and a large star topper to complete the look.

A perfect summer fairy cake - pipe fresh cream or butter icing round the cakes and add fresh strawberries (you can add them to a blob of jam or coulis if you choose) in the centre. A very British summer cake - perfect!

How cute are these teddies? To make, cover your buns in yellow icing (or you could use melted chocolate) and add halved chocolate buttons for ears and use icing pens to add the eyes and details.

Simply stunning. Pipe green icing over the top of your cake then using a wide piping bag model the sunflower by building up lines of yellow. Add chocolate sprinkles to the centre and add a tiny bug modelled from ready rolled or coloured icing to finish.

Sweetie topped by Eva and Mia

Easily achieved with swirls of green icing and sprinkles/shiny balls

Decorate banana fairy cakes with chocolate icing. Then use chocolate buttons and smarties to make the face.

Sent in by Tracey

Swirls of chocolate icing, simply decorated with gold stars. Easy peasy..

Sent in by Jenny

Rich chocolate icing, decorated with a smartie. Lush!

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Hummingbird fairycakes with a Christmas twist

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Fly the flag with these Flag fairycakes, make using shoestrings

Sent in by Becky