1. Bake cupcakes with your favorite recipe
2. Cover frosting on top of the baked cupcakes

Deco Pocky:

1. Make simple syrup with 1:1 ratio of sugar and water. After done, pour it in a cup.
2. Dip Pocky stick into the cup of simple syrup for 5 seconds.
3. Put sprinkles and other decoration onto Pocky before the simple syrup dries out. 
4. Let it cool

Animal Pocky Toppers:

1. Make a hole inside a donut hole with a chopstick.
2. Put almonds on top of the donut to make ears.
3. Get a small piece of marzipan and mold it into a small flat circle. Stick it on the donut for the muzzle.
4. Using a toothpick or a chopstick, draw the nose with the melted chocolate.
5. Add two sprinkles for the eyes.
6. Finally, stick the Deco Pocky into the donut through the hole made earlier

Source: Pickled Plum