Beautiful Blooming Succulent Cupcakes

Ingredients & Tools
Instructions

Instructions

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Bake cupcakes, either using Wilton’s recipe or one from a box mix. Remember to insert white liners into a muffin tin or cupcake pan, before adding the batter. Baking typically takes between 18-to-20 minutes. Once cupcakes pass the toothpick inserted test and are done, be sure to let them cool for at least 10-minutes.
While cupcakes are in the oven, prepare a batch and a half of our Easy Vanilla Buttercream Frosting.
Next prepare icing colors to add to completed buttercream frosting. Start by separating the completed batch of buttercream into 5 parts, 4 that are 1/2 a cup each and one that is 1 cup.
Combine Moss Green and Lemon Yellow icing colors to produce a medium green color and add to one of the 1/2 cup separated batches. Combine Royal Blue and Juniper Green icing colors to produce a dark blue color and add to one of the 1/2 cup separated batches. Combine Juniper Green and Royal Blue icing colors to produce a light green color and add to one of the 1/2 cup separated batches. Combine Rose and Sky Blue icing colors to produce a medium magenta color and add to one of the 1/2 cup separated batches.
Leave the remaining batch of buttercream frosting as is, should be 1 cup. There should be more than is needed to complete this recipe.
Once batches are mixed, they are ready to be loaded into piping bags with specific tips attached.
Put medium green frosting into piping bag with #199 Open Star Piping Tip and using our How to Pipe a Cactus Technique, pipe cacti. Put medium magenta frosting into piping bag with Open Star Cake Decorating Tip 18 and using our How to Pipe a Star Technique, pipe flowers on cacti. Put regular/white buttercream frosting into piping bag with Round Cake Decorating Tip 2 attached and pipe pull-out white dots on cacti using our How to Pipe Dots technique. In the piping bag with the Round Cake Decorating Tip #8 attached, use a spatula and stripe half of the bag with light green icing. Fill the remaining side with dark blue icing. Then using our How to Pipe a Succulent technique, pipe some succulents, starting from the outside and working towards the center.
Once decorated, plate and enjoy!

Notes

How To

How to Pipe a Cactus
Star and round tips are not only used for details, they can also be used to pipe beautiful succulents and cacti.
How to Pipe a Succulent
Learn how to pipe a buttercream succulent.
How to Pipe Dots
Perfect for classic borders or cloudlike decorations, dots are a versatile technique that can be piped in a range of sizes. The dot technique can be used as a simple border for cakes and cookies, as well as for icing cupcakes or piping meringues.