Mothers Day Cupcakes

Decorating beautiful Mothers Day cupcakes is a wonderful way to celebrate and honor your Mom.

These pages have fantastic ideas for creating that perfect cupcake or cupcake display to show your mother how much you care.

How about a lovely heart set in a lace wrapper or a beautiful collection of frosting flowers? Or perhaps you’d rather make a pretty butter cream rose that you nestle in a tea cup. No matter what you decide, these pages will certainly help inspire your creativity to design the perfect cupcake for your mother!

Mothers Day Cupcake Tutorials Embossed Heart Cupcake A heart shaped cutter and a clever embossing trick are the secret behind these lovely heart embellished cupcakes. Keeping the flowers simple helps this design really pop! >>See how we made these Embossed Heart Cupcakes Tea Cup Rose Cupcake A simple butter cream rose on a flat iced cupcake are all you need to create this design. Feel free to vary the color of the rose to your taste. >>Check out our step-by-step directions for this Tea Cup Rose Cupcake

Embossed Heart
Mothers Day Cupcakes

Difficulty Level: Experienced

The old fashioned look of these Mothers Day cupcakes will bring a smile to any mother or grandmother's face. You can change up the colors using a creamy ivory, pale lavender or even peach. Don't be afraid to experiment!

Bakery/Cake Goods Needed:

• Your favorite batch of vanilla cupcakes
• Your favorite butter cream frosting recipe

Decorating Supplies:

• 1 small batch of premade fondant
  (you can use premade or homemade)
• Food Coloring
  (we used Wilton’s paste food coloring in Pink
  and grocery store red liquid food coloring)
• Small rolling pin
• Floral pattern stamp(clean and brand new)
• Metal heart-shaped cutter
  (we used the medium 1-1/2” heart cutter from
  Wilton’s Heart Fondant Cut-outs)
• Small floral cutter
• Wax Paper
• White Ball Sprinkles and Pearlized
  White Ball Sprinkles (we used Wilton’s Sugar Pearls in white)
• Pink Pearlized Dust

Cupcake Icing Tools:

• Wilton 1M Star Tip
• Icing Bag

Finishing Touches:

• Pink or White cupcake liners and a Lacey Cupcake Wrapper

Making the Embossed Hearts:

Step 1: Tint fondant pink and roll out on a flat surface. With the floral stamp, stamp the surface of the fondant pressing stamp into fondant to create a pattern.

Step 2: Using heart-shaped cutter, cut out hearts. Set aside on wax paper to dry.

Making the Small Flowers:

Step 1: Roll out white fondant on a flat surface, with the floral/petal cutter, cut out flower shapes. You'll need two for each cupcake.

Step 2: Gently shape the flower using a shaping tool like a sponge and a rounded dowel. Set aside to harden.

Icing the Cupcakes:

Step 1: Tint the butter cream a light pink with a drop of red food coloring.

Step 2: Fill the icing bag with butter cream and fit the opening with the Wilton 1M star metal tip.

Step 3: Starting from the outside edge of the cupcake, use a circular motion and squeeze the icing out to cover the cupcake.

Decorating the Mother’s Day Cupcakes:

Step 1: Place an embossed heart on it's side at the center of the cupcake. Carefully place the pearlized sprinkles around the heart.

Step 2: Put a few white ball sprinkles in a zip lock bag. Sprinkle in the pink pearlized dust. Close the bag and shake to coat the candy with dust.

Step 3: At the base of the heart, place two white fondant flowers. Dab a bit of butter cream in the center and place a pink coated sprinkle in the center.

Products Used to Decorate this Mothers Day Cupcake:

Wilton Fondant Heart Cut Outs	Filigree Cupcake Wrappers

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Tea Cup Mothers Day Cupcakes

Difficulty Level: Experienced

These Mothers Day cupcakes look absolutely lovely in their tea cup “wrappers” and are certain to win your mother’s heart. Cluster them together for a beautiful table top cupcake display or set them on a tray with roses in single bud vases.

Bakery/Cake Goods Needed:

• Your favorite batch of vanilla cupcakes
• Your favorite butter cream frosting recipe

Rose Decorating Supplies:

• Food Coloring (we used Wilton’s paste food coloring in Pink and Moss Green)
• Wilton #104 Petal tip
• Wilton #66 Leaf tip
• Flower Nail
• Wax paper
• Icing Bag
• Coupler Ring

Cupcake Icing Tools:

• Metal Spatula
• Wilton #12 Round Tip
• Icing Bag

Finishing Touches:

• Pink cupcake or white cupcake liners
• Various floral tea cups

Making the Icing Roses:

Step 1: Cut wax paper into small squares to fit the flower nail. Set aside.

Step 2: Reserve 2 cups of butter cream and leave it white. Tint two cups light pink. Tint one cup of butter cream moss green.

Step 3: Fill an icing bag with half white and half pink icing and fit the opening with the #104 petal tip.

Step 4: Place a small dab of frosting on the flower nail and attach a wax paper square.

Step 5: Place the fat side of the petal tip on the surface of the flower nail and twirl the nail while squeezing out the icing using even pressure to form an icing cone.

Step 6: Placing the fat side of the tip mid-way down the cone, squeeze out icing while turning the nail, bringing the tip up and into a slight curve before bringing it back down again. With this first row, you will be piping approximately three slightly overlapping petals.

Step 7: Move down to the base of the cone and turn the tip to about a 45 degree angle. Pipe a second row of five overlapping petals.

Step 8: Place the petal tip almost parallel to the flower nail and pipe the final row of overlapping petals.

Step 9: Place your piped roses on a plate or tray and freeze them.

Icing the Cupcakes:

Step 1: Fill the icing bag with white butter cream and fit the opening with a Wilton #12 Round metal tip.

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

Step 3: Using the spatula, fill in the center with additional butter cream and smooth the surface.

Decorating your Mothers Day Cupcakes:

Step 1: Fill an icing back with the moss green frosting. Fit the opening with a #66 leaf tip.

Step 2: Using a butter knife to lift a frozen rose from the wax paper and carefully place it on the cupcake. Pipe a leaf with the #66 leaf tip.

Step 3: Place each cupcake in a tea cup.

Products Used to Decorate this Mothers Day Cupcake:

Wilton Petal Icing Tip #104	Wilton Leaf Icing Tip #66

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Creative Mothers Day
Cupcake Ideas

Mothers Day Flower Cupcakes

Create an edible floral garden with these lovely butter cream Mothers Day Flower Cupcakes. This video not only shows you the decorating technique to pipe the icing flowers, but also contains the recipe for the frosting used for the decorations.

Beautiful Butterfly Cupcakes

Take a look at these beautiful Butterfly Cupcakes. Imagine surprising your mom with these Mothers Day cupcake creations. Combine these butterflies with flowers to create a truly spectacular cupcake display or just stay with a straight butterfly theme.

Make your Cupcakes a Gift

How about pairing your beautifully decorated cupcakes with a custom greeting card handmade by you. Placed in a clear box with a pretty ribbon, what mom wouldn't be surprised and delighted! Learn how to make all types of cards by visiting Card Making Magic.

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