DIY Cupcake Flowers

Cupcakes have stepped up in the world from being just a snack for children to impressive little cakes served for special occasions. Cupcakes can be decorated as simply or elaborately as you wish. Decorate all of the cupcakes with an easy vanilla frosting, or choose different flavors to jazz things up a bit. Choose the unexpected when decorating your own cupcake flowers. For example, use a chocolate cake beneath lemon-flavored or buttercream yellow icing for the sunflower cupcakes. Delicious. Add this to my Recipe Box.

Sunflower Cupcakes

Place the leaf tip on the top of a yellow icing aerosol can container. This will be the tip you use to make the petals.

Squirt the icing from the center of the cupcake to the outside of the cupcake and stop. Repeat the process next to that icing petal. Allow some of the petals to hang off of the cupcake paper just a bit. After you fill in the entire cupcake with yellow petals, then squirt another layer on top of those petals. Don't layer the petals exactly straight, however. You want the flower to look natural. Make some of the petals shorter than the others.

Sprinkle some chocolate chips in the center of the flower to complete the sunflower cupcake. The chocolate chips represent the seeds in the center of the flower.

Jellybean Flower Cupcakes

Spread white icing all over the top of the cupcake until it is smooth.

Place one round candy in the center of the cupcake. Arrange six jellybeans that are the same color around the round candy. The suggested color for the round candy is orange. The suggested color for the six jelly beans is yellow, but any color will work fine.

Place the leaf tip to the top of the green aerosol icing can. Add three, short green leaves on the cupcake around the flower.

Poppy Cupcakes

Spread white icing over the top of the cupcakes and let it dry.

Squirt three, large, light green icing leaves on top of the white icing using the leaf tip on top of the aerosol can. Place the leaves close to the edge of the cupcake. Place the flower petals on top of the icing, to layer it. You want the flower to look like it is lying on top of the leaves.

Unroll a roll of ready-to-use rolled pink fondant. Cut a circle. Using a knife, cut the circle into four equal portions.

Shape the four pieces to resemble natural poppy petals. Lay the four petals together on top of the white icing and the green leaves.

Sprinkle a few chocolate chips in the center of the poppy flower leaves to represent the center seeds of the poppy flower.

Tips

- You also can make your own frosting using premade white icing, food coloring and lemon flavoring.