Floral Cupcake Decorating Ideas

Floral cupcake decorating ideas seem to make the biggest impression when it comes to beautifully designed cupcakes.

Perhaps it's the unexpected nature of a flower. Or maybe it's the fact that something so intricately put together is close enough for you to really take a look at. After all, on a large cake, you could only "hope" to get the piece with the flower on it. Lucky for the modern cupcake decorator, you have a tremendous variety of techniques to choose from when deciding on flowers for your cupcake. Do you want a buttercream rose? Or perhaps some cute buttercups made of fondant. For the truly advanced, how about a delicately sculpted lily or daffodil made of gumpaste. No matter method or design you choose, floral cupcake decorating ideas always seem to be a big hit.

Floral Cupcake Tutorials Dramatic Daisy Cupcakes These perky cupcakes will add a bit a dazzle to any occasion and would be at home at a dinner party as well as a birthday party. >>Check out the step-by-step directions for our Dramatic Daisy Cupcakes Pink Daisy Cupcakes Your celebration will be pretty in pink indeed with these sassy and bright floral cupcakes. >>Learn how to make our Pink Daisy Cupcakes

Dramatic Daisy Cupcake

Difficulty Level: Experienced

You can use a variety of color combinations to create any number of cupcake decorating ideas for these dramatic floral cupcakes. Don't feel you need to stay with just orange. Pink, blue and even yellow would work equally well with this design.

Bakery/Cake Goods Needed:

• Your favorite batch of chocolate cupcakes
• Your favorite butter cream frosting

Daisy Decorating Supplies:

• 1 small batch of premade fondant
  (we used Wilton's Ready-To-Use Rolled Fondant in white)
• 1 small batch of premade gumpaste
  (we used Wilton's Ready-To-Use Gumpaste)
• 1 recipe of Chocolate Clay*
• Orange food color (we used Wilton’s paste food color)
• Metal circle shaped cutter
  (we used 1/2” circle cutter from Wilton’s Round Fondant Cut-outs)
• Medium sized daisy petal cutters
• Small rolling pin
• Wax Paper
• Food-safe paint brush

Cupcake Icing Tools:

• Ateco #804 Round Tip
• Icing Bag
• Chocolate glaze
  (we used Duncan Hines brand Amazing Glazes)
• Small zip lock bag

Finishing Touches:

• Brown cupcake liners
• Plain orange cupcake wrappers
• Brown acrylic paint

Making the Daisy Cupcake Decorations:

Step 1: Mix the fondant and gumpaste togther. Tint the mixture orange. With the small rolling pin, roll out on a flat surface. Cut out flower shapes with daisy cutter. With your fingers, carefully flip up the edges of a couple of daisy petals.

Step 2: Roll out the candy clay to a 1/2” thickness and cut out 1/2” round shaped with the round cutter. With food safe paint brush, moisten the center of each daisy and place a the round chocolate disk in the center.

Icing and Decorating the Cupcakes:

Step 1: Tint the butter cream orange. Fill the icing bag with butter cream and fit the opening with a Ateco #804 Round metal tip.

Step 2: Starting from the outside edge of the cupcake, use a circular motion and squeeze the icing out to cover the cupcake.

Step 3: Warm up glaze according to package directions. Squeeze a little glaze into the zip lock bag and cut an opening in the end.

Step 4: While holding the iced cupcake over a protected surface, use sweeping motions to drip chocolate lines over the butter cream. Wipe up excess drips around the sides of cupcake if you have any.

Step 4: Place a daisy at the center of each cupcake.

Finishing Touches:

Step 1: Lay the orange cupcake wrapper unassembled and flat on newspaper. Drip the brown acrylic paint over the top moving your hand across the top to create a pattern.

Step 2: Let paint dry and assemble wrapper.

Step 3: Place decorated cupcake inside.

Products used to decorate this cupcake:

PME Sugarcraft Plunger/Cutter 1-3/4" Sunflower	Brown Cupcake Liners

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Pink Daisy Cupcakes

Difficulty Level: Easy

These pretty daisy cupcake decorations come together quick if you make the fondant flowers ahead of time. You'll find most floral cupcake decorating ideas have this requirement.

Bakery/Cake Goods needed:

• Your favorite batch of yellow cake cupcakes
• Your favorite recipe for Butter Cream Frosting

Decorating Supplies:

• Pre-made batch of white fondant
• Pink Sugar (buy premade or make your own)
• Pink food color (we used Pink from Wilton)

Decorating Tools:

• Rolling pin
• Daisy Flower Petal Cutter(we used Wilton’s daisy flower petal cutter)
• 1M Metal Icing Tip
• Icing Bag

Directions:

Step 1: Roll out the fondant, with the daisy cutter, cut out flower shapes. Cut two daisy “petals” for each flower. Dab a little water on one flower petal and stack the other petal on top.

Step 2: Color a ball of fondant pink. Roll the fondant into very small balls. Dip the balls into colored sugar. Using a shaping tool or end of a small rounded handle, make a depression in each daisy. Dab water in the center and affix the pink sugar-dipped center into each one. Set these aside to dry.

Step 3: Fill the icing bag with butter cream. Using a circular motion, squeeze out icing to cover the tops of the cupcakes.

Step 4: Place one daisy at the top of each cupcake.

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Flower Pot Cupcakes

Tired of just putting flowers on the cake? How about creating a whole edible garden of cookie flowers! Take a look Judy Wang's Flower Pot Cupcakes.

She starts by baking a batch of cupcakes and a batch of flower shaped cookies on lollipop sticks. For the cupcakes, Judy frosted the tops with green icing piped to look like grass. She also removed the paper liner. On the cookies, Judy outlined the flower shape in white icing and filled in the design with pink and yellow (you can use what ever colors you like). For the leaves, Judy used good old gum paste and a leave cutter. After the icing on the cookies had time to dry and the leaves had hardened, Judy inserted them into the cupcakes. Judy is an inspiration and has many more cupcake decorating ideas!

Photo Courtesy of Melissa

Beautiful Rose Cupcake Decorations

Melissa has many beautiful cupcake decorating ideas, but this one is absolutely amazing. The full vibrant nature of her pink rose creation defies gum paste...it looks so real! To achieve this look, Melissa starts with a cupcake foundation in pale cream-yellow which tones down the contrast you would get on a pure white cupcake. The rose itself was carefully crafted with gum paste which assures you delicate but strong petals. It appears Melissa gave each rose petal a little texture and used varying shades of pink gum paste to create a realistic effect. She finished her design with simple pale green leaves to create just enough punch to set off her flower. Melissa has many more stunning cupcake decorating ideas as well!

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