The Best Cupcake Decorating Trends of 2021–22

An ultimate guide to cupcake decorating and creation trends for 2021–22.

Unique and stunning cupcake ideas to help you relish your desserts.

To stay on top of your confectionary career. It is important to know what’s hot in the bakery this year. Baking as a career option witnessed a great surge last year. When all of us were locked inside our homes, many individuals took up baking classes and established a blooming career.

Obviously, one cannot rely on a single source of income in today’s day and age. All of us need a side hustle to make that extra money.

Coming back to our baking, it is a must to stay on top of key trends while planning and designing future cupcakes. You have to keep the texture, pattern, theme, or color in mind while designing and decorating your cupcake. So let us help!

Black Buttercream Cupcake

Colorful cakes occupy a unique place for sure, but nothing catches the eye like a clean, black buttercream cake. It is both classy and elegant. Black buttercream is a great canvas for colorful candy decorations or metallic cake paint.

Bright and Bold

Just like this, the year coming next will be filled with bright and bold color combinations. Shades of rainbow splashed with neon colors is your cupcake calling. Use both the hues together or individually to create an eyecatching cupcake.

Imagine cheerful happy colors to add extra joy to your feast. This trend is a giant shift from ominous black cakes that were quite a rage in 2020.

Combed Cupcakes

This is created by a grooved icing smoother over the buttercream frosting. Combing is the best and easiest method to add texture and style to your cupcakes.

Dried flowers

There is still a surge in botanical flavors. This is mainly due to the nostalgia of green succulents since 2019 and 2020. Moreover, the coronavirus pandemic has witnessed a big increase in home baking and consumers. This year dried flowers are placed on a simple, often plain, cake tier.

Eucalyptus, pampas grass and single palm leaves, and many others fall in the list of dried flowers cupcake decorations. Other botanical and floral flavors like lavender, rose, basil, clementine, bergamot, and hibiscus still appear in a variety of products. These

Jelly Cupcakes

Jelly cupcakes give an underwater effect. Such cakes are totally and partially covered with jelly to make them look like oceans or aquariums.

Jelly cake islands with sea creatures, oceans, aqua world are among the trending cake trends of 2021.

The reason why jelly is gaining such popularity is due to its easy preparation and transparent effect. These cakes look strikingly stunning.

Burnt Butter

One of the unique flavors to emerge recently and become extremely popular is burnt butter. Definitely, there is no big trend at the moment for completely recreating the wheel and inventing an all-new flavor. This new flavor is more about showing creativity with products that are already well established.

Oriental Cupcake

The next in line with those that are created by combining traditional sweets are an assorted platter. Here lemon and rosemary cupcakes are stashed with red velvet and chocolate muffins. You can also infuse your dessert with citrus flavors like simple orange or the new emerging clementine.

Asian flavors are also gaining ground in the dessert world. Japanese are certainly the biggies that give bakers a chance to play with unusual flavors. An example of such a cupcake is Japanese black vinegar cupcakes stuffed with yuzu curd. You can also try apricot muffins and wasabi cupcakes.

Retro Sweets

Comfort food is widely inspired by three key areas — classic dessert, ice cream, and retro sweets. These foods give bakers the opportunity to reinvent the classics. It also helps to bring back fond memories. When you eat something that reminds you of a beautiful past- it is your comfort food. Certainly, there is nothing better than retro sweets to help you travel back to a cool, calm, cozy comfort zone of beautiful memories.

Retro sweets are inspired by flavors like chocolate mint, rum & raisin. Cupcakes and muffins undiluted by fusion and experiment hold a classic spot.

Salted Caramel

Premiumising the traditional flavor is another cake designing trend. Salted caramel is diversified and premeumised in a wide array by the bakers. They are creating desserts as diversified as Salted Caramel Brownie Pie or Salted Caramel Frangipane Pear Tart.

Salted caramel is also used in the coffee-flavored bakes or combined with honeycomb for a final touch.

Ruby Chocolates

From the looks of Ruby chocolate, it is quite evident that this mouthwatering and stunning dessert will continue to grow. Ruby chocolates add both value and a sense of luxury to your dessert. It is a must for all those who dig exotic flavors.