All about cupcake toppers

Cupcake toppers refer to the decorations attached to a stick. This stick can be easily slipped inside a cupcake with the chief decoration being present on the top of the frosting. These toppers can be made of letters, decorations, or a combination of all these. These toppers are mostly used to accessorize or personalize cupcakes made for some special occasion. These toppers can also be prepared using a picture for personalization or to follow a particular theme. Apart from these, you can also use a shape or a pretty design. When it comes to designing, the possibilities are endless. Irrespective of what topper is selected, a stick will be needed to adhere to the topper. The stick used can be a toothpick, a popsicle stick, a plastic stick, or something different. Currently, cupcake toppers have become very popular, and are in high demand in weddings where desserts are very small and comparatively more personalized than a wedding cake. The same thing is true for desserts served during birthday parties and showers. 

A typical cupcake topper is around two to three inches tall or wide at most. This size is perfect to make a stable topper. However, if you have baked a mini-cupcake, you should keep your topper under two inches. You can vary the size of the topper by 1 or 2 inches if it can improve the overall presentation of the cupcake. While placing the topper you should see that the stick, used can hold the weight of the extra inches of paper. Here you can also use an extra stick to provide better support to the topper. 

Round cupcake toppers are another popular shape for toppers. These toppers are easy to make and are very useful if you are not very artistic and don't have a crafting machine. Round cupcake toppers are normally two inches in diameter. Round toppers can be made easily on a computer using a simple program or a website. Apart from these toppers designs can also be purchased if you don't have the expertise to make them yourself. You can pick some online free images and edit them for putting on Microsoft word canvas or some other program. To make cupcakes more efficiently you should know how to use the Cricut machine. Cupcake toppers can be easily designed with the help of a Cricut design. The same rules are applicable for the size of the topper as you will most likely use sturdy cardstock for the designs. A size of two or three inches is best for the design. Apart from this the best paper to use for cupcake topper is cardstock. The cardstock papers are quite sturdy and can stay upright without weighing the cupcake down. The cupcake toppers can be either printed on this paper or can be prepared by cutting designs or objects out of cardstock. Regular paper is too flimsy for a topper unless it is backed by some thicker paper or cardstock. 

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