Sometimes in my free time, I stream on Twitch, and coming up with sub badge ideas had been a challenge for a while. I like to bake, obviously, so I recently thought, why not bake my own sub badges? And now I’ve finally made it happen.

While doing this project, I also took the chance to test some of my piping tips. I’ve got a small collection, and although I didn’t use all of them, I tested the ones I reach for most to see how they perform.

Baking and decorating cupcakes

I’ve used plain vanilla recipe, and some white muffin papers I had. The cream is plain whipped cream with stabilizer and colorant.

Preparation
Cupcakes, cream and bags ready for piping

Preparation with bags
Cupcakes right before decoration

Sub Badges

I’m pretty happy with how they turned out, though there are a few things I would change next time:

  • I used a magenta tablecloth for the photos, thinking it would be easy to remove — it wasn’t. Next time, I’ll just use a neutral background like a white tablecloth. The magenta gave the cupcakes a slightly pink tint.

  • The photo angles could’ve been better.

Still, I think the final result looks nice. And with my setup, adding new ones will be easy. I just need to make matching pairs of decorated and undecorated cupcakes.

Sub Badges
Final Result

The tips

I also wanted to compare the piping tips. If you’re interested, you can see the results below.

Tips from side
Decorated cupcakes with piping tips – side view

Tips from top
Decorated cupcakes with piping tips – top view