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How to Make Flower Cupcakes

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If you have ever wondered how to make flower cupcakes, they are much easier than you might think! Don’t let a decorating bag and tip scare you off from making gorgeous cupcakes with flowers that can be turned into the most beautiful cupcake flower bouquet. Whether you are celebrating Mother’s Day, a bridal shower or want flower birthday cupcakes, this dessert is sure to brighten anyone’s day!

pretty purple flower cupcakes

I didn’t start using a decorating bag for cupcakes until I was fortunate enough to visit Wilton headquarters and take cake decorating class over the course of several days. I was always intimidated but I didn’t need to be. Once you learn proper grip and pressure, it is super easy to create beautiful desserts. Within no time I was making fun desserts like this train cake for my son’s birthday.

ingredients to make buttercream icing for a dozen flower cupcakes

Ingredients and Supplies for Flower Cupcakes

To make these flower cupcakes you’ll need the following:

  • vanilla cupcakes
  • butter
  • confectioners’ sugar
  • milk
  • violet gel food coloring
  • green fondant
  • decorating bag
  • Wilton tip #74

Your vanilla cupcakes can be made from scratch, cake mix or store bought. Have you ever scraped off icing from store bought cupcakes? This is an easy hack to create more unique cupcakes than what you can find in stores.

violet buttercream mixed for flower cupcakes

How to Make Flower Cupcakes

Once you’ve made your icing and tinted it violet, you’ll want to fill your decorating bag fitted with a Wilton Tip #74 with your buttercream. Make sure you don’t overfill your bag so you don’t have a mess. You’ll only want to go about 2/3 of the way up.

vanilla cupcakes green fondant and purple buttercream in bag with 1M tip

Frost each cupcake with buttercream flowers by dropping a small dollop, about ½ an inch in diameter in a circular motion. Start in the center and surround it with 5 to 6 other flowers, along the circumference of your cupcake.

Kitchen Tip: If you don’t feel comfortable working with the #74 tip, I suggest practicing a few times on a piece of parchment paper. You can easily scrap it off and use it on your cupcakes later so practice until you feel confident.

piping purple flowers on vanilla cupcakes

To make fondant leaves, roll out a small sphere from your green fondant, about ¼ of an inch in size.

adding green fondant leaves to flower cupcakes

Flatten sphere then point it on one end. Place 3-4 randomly on each cupcake. That is all there is to making these flower cupcakes! Aren’t they gorgeous?

pretty purple flower cupcakes

pretty purple flower cupcakes
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Flower Cupcakes

If you have ever wondered how to make flower cupcakes, they are much easier than you might think! Don't let a decorating bag and tip scare you off from making gorgeous cupcakes with flowers that can be turned into the most beautiful cupcake flower bouquet. Whether you are celebrating Mother's Day, a bridal shower or just want some flower birthday cupcakes, this dessert is sure to brighten anyone's day!

Keyword birthday cupcakes, flower bouquet, flower cupcakes, mother's day cupcakes, wedding shower cupcakes
Prep Time 20 minutes
Servings 12
Author Lisa Marie for OhMySugarHigh.com

Ingredients

  • 12 vanilla cupcakes
  • 1 stick butter softened
  • 2 cups confectioners’ sugar
  • 2-3 tbsp milk
  • ¼ tsp violet gel food coloring
  • 1-2 oz. green fondant

Instructions

  1. Before decorating, make sure cupcakes are cool to the touch. Otherwise, buttercream will slide/melt right off.
  2. Using an electric mixer, beat together softened butter, sugar and milk on medium speed.
  3. Increase speed to high.
  4. Once the buttercream starts to take form, add gel food coloring. Mix until completely tinted.
  5. Scoop purple buttercream into a piping bag with Wilton icing tip #74 attached.
  6. Frost each cupcake with buttercream flowers. To achieve this look, frost a small dollop, about ½ an inch in diameter in a circular motion. Start in the center and surround it with 5-6 other flowers, along the circumference of your cupcake.
  7. To make fondant leaves, roll out a small sphere from your green fondant, about ¼ of an inch in size.
  8. Flatten sphere then point it on one end. Place 3-4 randomly on each cupcake.

Since Wilton Tip #74 doubles as both a flower petal and leaf tip, you can skip the fondant if desired.  Instead of using green fondant for leaves you can tint some of the icing green and pipe leaves instead.

flower cupcake bouquet made with buttercream

These buttercream flower cupcakes were made as full sized cupcakes but could easily be made with mini cupcakes and then attached to a foam ball and placed into a flower pot with toothpicks.  You can view a full  tutorial here. You could also place these cupcake flowers in a bouquet shape and add additional stems to pull them all together like they did in this example.

Thanks to Lisa from Fabulous Habits for these easy flower cupcakes!

flower cupcakes with purple buttercream
how to make flower cupcakes
If you have ever wondered how to make flower cupcakes, they are much easier than you might think! Don't let a decorating bag and tip scare you off from making gorgeous cupcakes with flowers that can be turned into the most beautiful cupcake flower bouquet. Whether you are celebrating Mother's Day, a bridal shower or just want some flower birthday cupcakes, this dessert is sure to brighten anyone's day!

 

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