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How to Decorate koi-shaped cupcakes with Karen Tack

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Preserve the modesty of your fresh batch of Devil's food cupcakes by sheathing them in layers of icing and shaping them into fun animal shapes! While we love plain cupcakes, decorating cupcakes for special events like holidays and parties helps get your food in line with the theme and decor and will make guests smile.

Learn how to make koi-shaped cupcakes in this decorating tutorial. These pretty fish cupcakes will be stunners at a beach party or a birthday party for your kids.

Karen Tack and Alan Richardson decorate the top of cupcakes to look like a koi pond complete with goldfish, using techniques from their book, "What's New, Cupcake?"

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