Flower Pot Cupcakes
Ingredients
For Cupcakes & Decorating
- cupcake recipe of choice, baked in liners
- green buttercream frosting
- chocolate cookie crumbs
- buttercream frosting at stiffer consistency (mixed with more powdered sugar), colored yellow
- fondant flowers (watch "Fondant Flowers" video on how2heroes.com)
Equipment
- 2" - 3" mini flower pots
- piping bag fitted with grass tip
- piping bag fitted with rose tip
- flat head, stainless steel flower nail
- #47 piping tip
- offset frosting scissors
How-to
For Cupcakes
- Follow your favorite cupcake recipe and bake in liners according to recipe instructions. Cool completely
- Place cupcakes in mini flower pots
To Decorate
- Make a batch of your favorite buttercream recipe, and color it green (for grass). For a classic buttercream recipe, click here. Transfer to a piping bag fitted with a "grass" tip
- Make another batch of buttercream for piping flowers (Renee colors hers yellow), but add more powdered sugar to the recipe for a stiffer consistency (to avoid flowers from wilting and melting). Transfer to a piping bag fitted with a "rose" tip or #47 tip
- Pipe grass all around the top of the cupcake, starting from the outside, working in. Sprinkle with chocolate cookie crumb "dirt" if desired
- Watch Renee's flower piping techniques and pipe desired flower style using a flat head, stainless steel flower nail. Transfer flowers onto "grass" using offset frosting scissors
- In addition to frosting flowers, try decorating your flower pots with Fondant Flowers (a more forgiving decorating technique!)