Picks and Toppers

• Decorate frosted cupcakes quickly with Tinkerbell plastic figures, cupcake picks or ready-made icing decorations. Cupcake picks are plastic figures or pictures attached to a skewer that you push down into the center of a cupcake for an easy decoration. You can find these in craft stores or online. If you're artistic, sculpt your own Tinkerbell cake topper from fondant or gum paste.

Tinkerbell's Shoes

• Instead of trying to craft an intricate Tinkerbell from fondant, make Tinkerbell's shoes and arrange them on the top of frosted cupcakes as if the pixie had just kicked them off after a long day of thinking happy thoughts. Roll green fondant into ovals, then press a wooden spoon handle into one end of the oval to form the opening of the shoe. Add a round candy to the top of the shoe with frosting as decoration, if you wish.

Fairy Dust

• Make Tinkerbell-inspired cupcakes by coating frosted cupcakes with fairy dust. Use brightly colored sugar crystals from the cake decorating section of the grocery store. Frost the cupcakes with white icing to make the sugar stand out and roll the top of the cupcake or just the edges of the cupcake in a shallow dish filled with the colored sugar. Use several different colors of sugar to add bright bursts of color and tell guests Tinkerbell sprinkled fairy dust onto the cupcakes.

Tinted Cake Batter

• Surprise guests with magical fairy cupcakes by adding a few drops of food coloring to white cake batter before you bake the cupcakes. When guests break open the cupcake, a bright and colorful interior will be revealed. Paste food coloring will produce brighter colors than liquid food coloring but keep in mind that the color will probably be lighter after the cupcakes are baked. You can also add colored sprinkles to the batter for an added surprise or make filled cupcakes.