Deva Williamson, owner of Big Laugh Kitchen and winner of Food Network’s Candy Land, joins me to offer up instructions and tips to help you make these treats.

Ingredients

To make these, you’ll need three basic things:

Birthday cupcakes should be fun and festive and funfetti cupcakes totally acheive that. I’m excited that Beko Appliances sponsored this post to help me celebrate birthdays everywhere and the three month birthday of our new kitchen!

Tips for Making the Best Birthday Cupcakes

The dessert nachos are even adorable without the accoutrements.

But, I say, “Load ’em up,” for a perfect game day or Super Bowl dessert.

What You’ll Need

Start with some basic cupcake baking tips if you aren’t familiar with how to bake cupcakes.

To make these cupcakes, you’ll need mini cupcake liners [paid link] and a mini muffin tin [paid link]. Mini muffin tins typically hold 24 mini cupcakes.

Sprinkle cakes are so much fun! And, the best part about them is that you don’t need to be a cake decorating whiz to make them because sprinkles can totally hide a bad frosting job. Cake decorating guru Lia Weber taught me how to make this sprinkle cake that is a perfect for birthdays or as a July 4th dessert!

Martine Lleonart has created the cutest little hedgehog cookies!! In this guest post, she shows you how to dress them up for Christmas. Hopefully, it inspires you to create your own versions for other occasions as well.

These adorable little shortbread hedgehogs are deceptively easy to make, but they pack a big punch. I recently took a batch of them to an end-of-year school event and I was literally stopped in my tracks as I carried them into the school by people who wanted a closer look.

“Each of these Neapolitan cookies is like a snowflake,” says pastry chef Mathew Rice, who shares his technique and recipe with us. No two are the same.