how to make flower cupcakes

How to make Flower cupcakes-platter of multicoloured frosted flower cupcakes.

Are you interested in learning how to make flower cupcakes or cake decorating tips? Here you’ll find tutorials for how to make beautiful flower cupcakes. The first tutorial is a beautiful bouquet of buttercream cupcake flowers (above photo) that you can use this kit from Amazon for. Each cupcake is a beautiful bouquet of flowers.

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These flower cupcake bouquets are sure to bring a smile to anyone’s face whether they’re for a birthday, Mother’s Day or any special occasion. They aren’t too difficult to do, but they do take a bit of practice.

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I used an easy to make buttercream frosting, and an easy to make store bought cake/cupcake mix. I baked my cupcakes as per directions on the box, let them cool, and then partially froze them for a couple of hours to lightly frost them. Freezing them keeps the crumbs from getting into my frosting.

I used a large frosting tip and a tri-section coupling connector to give me three colors with each buttercream flower. You can go as subtle as you like with three colors or more dramatic.

Flower cupcakes-frosted flower cupcake with subtle colors.

Flower cupcakes-frosted flower cupcake with more dramatic colors.

Using the Large Frosting Tip

The large flower frosting tip I used for these flower cupcakes is about 4 or 5 times larger than a regular icing tip, and they are that big so that you don’t have to make the individual flower petals.

Flower cupcakes-large frosting tip and coupler.

Using the Tri-Section Coupling Connector

Using a tri-section coupling connector means you don’t have to have multiple colors of frosting in the same bag, and makes it easy to change out a color or two, or three.

Flower cupcakes-try-section coupling connector for frosting cupcakes. — 1.

Flower cupcakes-three icing colors in the try-section coupling connector for frosting cupcakes. — 5.

After you have baked your cupcakes, partially froze them and are ready to frost them, use the buttercream frosting recipe below or your own favorite.

Buttercream Frosting

1 cup butter (room temperature)

4 cups powdered sugar, sifted

4 – 6 Tbsp milk

Optional: 1 tsp rose water or vanilla as part of the liquid instead of using only milk.

Coloring

Instructions

Cream the butter until soft in a stand mixer or electric hand beater for about two minutes.
Add the sugar, rose water or vanilla and three Tbsp of milk.
Add the remaining Tbsp or more of milk as needed. If you are making roses, make sure the frosting is thick so it will hold its shape. If it gets too soft, place it in the refrigerator for about twenty minutes.

How to Make the Flower Cupcakes

1. The consistency of your buttercream frosting is very important. If it’s too thick it will be difficult to push out through the tip. If it’s too thin, your flowers won’t hold their shape. I found the key was using room temperature butter, not cold or melted butter. Frost each cupcake lightly with frosting so the flowers will stick to the cupcake.

2. I suggest starting with a small amount of uncoloured buttercream frosting to practise with for the first few cupcakes until you get the feel of using the tip, coupler and bags together, and how much frosting to pipe out for each flower.

3. Divide up your buttercream frosting and add the colors you would like to use. I recommend using gel colors as they won’t dilute your buttercream frosting like liquid food coloring would.

4. Pointing at a right angle, squeeze the frosting and slowly move the tip upwards.

5. When you reach the desired height, stop squeezing and quickly remove the tip. If the flower doesn’t work, just scrape it off and add another one.

6. For each cupcake, I added seven or eight flowers to the top. Then I took the leaf tip and added leaves. Basically, I just filled in the holes between the flowers with the leaves. I used the Wilton 352 tip that looks like a bird’s beak.

How to Make Flower Cupcakes

For the Leaves

Flower cupcakes-tools for making frosted flower leaves

Each cupcake a beautiful bouquet of flowers…

Flower cupcakes-frosted flower cupcake bouquets.

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Other flower cupcake ideas include decorating with a single flower on each cupcake. Below you’ll find beautiful ideas for roses, ranunculas, peonies, orchids, and sunflowers.