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We'll be spending the day with our nieces to celebrate the little one's 4th birthday and I said I'd make cupcakes and bring stuff to decorate them. I'm going to bake vanilla cupcakes and make chocolate buttercream. But what should I bring to put ON the cupcakes besides frosting?

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Smarties tend to bleed when they get damp or oily. You could use M&Ms but I think they make the cake taste weird.

You could make chocolate curls, though...the kids might like it.

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I definitely vote for multi-colored little ball sprinkles. Nothing looks cuter on the chocolate frosting. Sprinkles will be better than jimmies, as well. I even keep a container of this kind of sprinkle on hand specifically for putting on a specific chocolate brownie recipe I have and if I made cupcakes more frequently they would go on there, too.

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Good call!

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Once I made a chocolate cake/pudding thing that was supposed to look like mud and I put gummy worms in it and the kids were so grossed out they wouldn't eat it. :P

I usually put colored sprinkles or the tiny ball sprinkles, whatever those are called.

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DIRT CAKE!! We did that once and it was hilarious and everyone enjoyed it but we were all adults.

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Mmmm...butter cream frosting. Now I am craving frosting. *googles recipe* Oh, look, I have everything I need to make it from scratch! I have nothing to make cupcakes with, though.

Eating frosting all by itself when you're snowed in for the next week isn't weird, right???

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Nope. Though I would get some cake or something. Do you have eggs and sugar at least? Meringues are awesome with buttercream.

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All of the above!

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As it turns out I think they want to go out for lunch so no cupcakes. :(

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Is this "they" the adults or the 4-year-olds? I hope it's the adults, because a 4-year-old who doesn't want cupcakes makes me worry.

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The adults. But maybe my b-i-l will say to bring the cupcakes with me. :D

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My niece and nephew love decorating cupcakes. They like decorating them more than eating them.
They love sprinkles or other really small candies like that.

They are 4 and 5 years old.

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