Easy Chocolate Paddington Bear Cupcakes are perfect for a birthday party or school event. Learn how to make the cutest Paddington Bear Cupcakes with step-by-step directions and free printable tags to make your favorite children’s book character come to life through cake!
How to make the cutest Paddington Bear Cupcakes!
Enjoy these fun and easy Paddington Bear Cupcakes! One of my favorite book series as a kid was Paddington. I kept all of my childhood books and read them to my kids. Not only is Paddington a classic favorite, but can also be turned into a fun birthday cake!
A Paddington Bear Birthday Party would be adorable for any child and what is more fun at a party than cupcakes? We love the Paddington movies as well as the books. It’s so fun to see your favorite book characters come to life.
Scroll down for directions and the free printables to make these unbearably cute cupcakes! You’ll also want to check out my adorable Paddington Bear Donuts & Milk.
What you will need to make Paddington Cupcakes
- Cupcakes – Bake from scratch or buy them at your local bakery.
- Chocolate Buttercream Frosting <<Click for my homemade recipe.
- Grass piping tip for cake
- Chocolate Chips (one for each cupcake)
- Caramel or Peanut Butter Candy Melts
- Blue Sprinkles or Blue Icing
- Parchment Paper
- Free Printable Paddington Bear Hats and Tags (Design by Living Locurto ~ for personal use only)
- Navy Blue Cupcake Wrappers (optional)
How to Make Paddington Bear Cupcakes
After baking or buying the cupcakes, make the bear’s nose by placing 6-9 candy melts onto the parchment paper.
Melt in the microwave for about 30 seconds until they are melted enough to place chocolate chips inside of them.
Take it out of the microwave and carefully place a chocolate chip, pointed side down, into the candy melt. Placing the chocolate chip in different areas of the candy melt makes each nose unique.
Decorate The Cupcakes
Now, gather everything you need to decorate your cupcakes.
While the candy bear noses cool, pipe the chocolate frosting onto the cupcakes using a grass decorating tip.
Download Free Printables for Paddington Bear Cupcakes
Download, Print and Trim the Free Printable Paddington Hats and tags.
TIP: Laminate the hats before cutting to keep the paper well preserved on the cake.
Design © LivingLocurto.com – For Personal Use Only
Pick out your favorite color of sprinkles for his eyes. I chose blue.
Place the candy melt nose on the frosted bear cupcake.
Gently add the paper hat. If the hat gets messy, that’s okay because Paddington is a messy bear and his hat is usually dirty!
Drop two sprinkles onto the cupcake for the eyes. Use a toothpick to fix your eyes just right. You can also use blue icing if you prefer.
NOTE FROM AMY: I used matte photo paper for my hats, but the chocolate frosting still soaked into the paper just a bit. I actually liked how the chocolate made the hat look worn. You can laminate the hats to prevent the frosting from ruining the paper hats.
Display your Paddington Bear Cupcakes with the “Please Look After This Bear” tags. Just add some string to the tags and place around the cupcake.
How cute are these? Your Paddington fans will love them!
Serve these cute cupcakes with Paddington Bear Donuts & Milk! Get directions for these cute donuts here.
Paddington Bear Cupcakes
Equipment
Ingredients
- 1 dozen Cupcakes – Bake from scratch or buy them at your local bakery.
- 2 cups Chocolate Buttercream Frosting
- ¼ cup Chocolate Chips one for each cupcake
- .5 cup Caramel or Peanut Butter Candy Melts
- Blue Sprinkles or Blue Icing
Instructions
Make Bear Noses
- After baking or buying the cupcakes, make the bear’s nose by placing 6-9 candy melts onto the parchment paper. Melt in the microwave for about 15-30 seconds.
- Take it out of the microwave and carefully place a chocolate chip, pointed side down, into the candy melt. Placing the chocolate chip in different areas of the candy melt make each nose unique.
- Let cool completely before placing on cupcakes.
Decorate Bear Cupcakes
- While the candy cools, pipe the chocolate frosting onto the cupcakes using a grass decorating tip.
- Download, Print and Trim the Free Printable Paddington Hats and tags. TIP: Laminate the hats before cutting to keep them well preserved on the cake.
- Pick out your favorite color of candy sprinkles for his eyes. I chose blue.
- Place the candy melt nose on the frosted bear cupcake.
- Gently add a paper hat. If the hat gets messy, that’s okay because Paddington is a messy bear and his hat is usually dirty!
- I used matte photo paper for my hats, but the chocolate frosting still soaked into the paper just a bit. I actually liked how the chocolate made the hat look worn. You can laminate the hats to prevent the frosting from ruining the paper hats.
- Drop two sprinkles onto the cupcake for the eyes. Use a toothpick to fix your eyes just right. You can also use blue icing if you prefer.
- Display these cute Paddington Bear Cupcakes with the “Please Look After This Bear” tags. Just add some string to the tags and place around the cupcake.
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Originally published December 29, 2014 – Updated 2025
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I’m so glad they turned out good for you! Yay!
A friend passed on your recipe and it was a big hit. I made box cupcakes but did a frosting recipe with butter and cream cheese (found on McCormick spice website). This was my first time using a pastry bag which took me some time. They were such a big hit from the 2, 11 year old and the older crowd too.
Absolutely adorabe and thank you.
Thanks Alida! They are so fun to make.
These are beyond adorable. You are very talented!
So creative and totally adorable! The perfect way to celebrate with the kids!
These are SO cute!!
Oh my gosh, these could not be more adorable! They really do look so much like a fuzzy bear!
These are ridiculously cute!