Sprinkle Cupcake SVG

About this cupcake

The frosting is built from three soft rounded tiers, widest at the bottom, in bright red. A dozen short sprinkles are scattered across them in yellow, blue and green, each tilted at a different angle. The wrapper below flares slightly toward the top and is striped in blue and yellow, seven stripes in all. On the very top sits a round yellow cherry with a curved green stem.

Every color is divided from its neighbor by a white gap, so the cupcake looks crisp on white card or a light shirt without needing a dark outline.

Pieces and weeding

Expect 24 pieces and 5 cut-outs in the solid file. The wrapper stripes and frosting tiers are the large parts; the sprinkles, cherry and stem are the small ones. The sprinkles are the fiddly bit, so lift them onto transfer tape before weeding the rest of the sheet, or set them in place with tweezers on a glued card. It passes our cut checks from about 2.5 inches wide.

Color layers

• Red in bright cherry red: the three tiers of frosting
• Blue in cobalt blue: four of the wrapper stripes and four sprinkles
• Yellow in golden yellow: three wrapper stripes, four sprinkles and the cherry
• Green in grass green: four sprinkles and the cherry stem

Projects

• Bake sale and party signs with the cupcake cut large from card
• Invitations for a cupcake-decorating party
• Shirts and aprons for a little baker, in iron-on vinyl
• Favor tags on bags of treats, printed and cut small
• Kitchen canisters decorated in permanent vinyl on the outside

As with any picture of food, keep the cut piece to paper, vinyl, fabric or wood, and away from anything that will be eaten.

Size guide

Under 2.5 inches the sprinkles become too small to weed. For stickers smaller than that, print the color file and use Print Then Cut.

Layering in vinyl

Press or apply the wrapper stripes first, then the red frosting, then all the sprinkles in one pass, and the cherry and stem last. Because there is no backing layer, the white gaps will show the shirt or card color underneath, so a white or pale base keeps the look closest to the preview.

Make it match the party

Pink frosting with pastel sprinkles turns it into a baby shower piece. Chocolate brown frosting and a red cherry look like a classic bakery cupcake. Our guide to changing SVG colors shows how to set these up.

Pairs well with

The Cupcake Wrapper dresses up the real cupcakes, and the Cupcake Silhouette is a one-color version for quick projects.