Beautiful Buttercream Sunflower Cupcakes

Ingredients & Tools
Instructions

Instructions

Click to mark complete

Bake the cupcakes. Using an electric mixer, prepare the cupcake batter following the recipe instructions. Bake and cool completely before decorating.
Tint the icing.
- Tint 1 1/4 cup frosting yellow by combining the Lemon Yellow and Golden Yellow icing colors.
- Tint 1 1/4 cup frosting brown by combining Brown and Black icing colors to get the brown color shown.
- Tint 1 cup frosting Kelly Green (Optional)
Pipe the Sunflower Petals. Prepare a piping bag fitted with tip 352 and yellow frosting. Pipe a layer of petals around the outer edge of the cupcakes. Repeat for the second row on top of and overlapping the first row.
Pipe the Center. Prepare a piping bag fitted with tip 18 and brown frosting. Pipe stars to fill in the center of cupcakes.
(Optional) Pipe Green Leaves. Prepare a piping bag fitted with tip 352 and green frosting. Pipe a few leaves around the outer edge of the cupcakes to finish the look.

Notes

Substitute chocolate frosting or mini chocolate chips for the brown frosting to create the center of the sunflower

How To

How to Pipe a Sunflower
Nothing says summer like the radiant Sunflower. For a fun alternative, make a smiling sun by replacing the stars on the center mound with a happy face.
How to Pipe a Star
One of the most popular techniques, stars come in a range of sizes and styles. Experiment with open and closed stars for variation in look. The star technique is timeless and can be used as a classic border or as a stunning fill-in for the top of a dessert.
How to Make Beautiful Buttercream Flowers
We can almost hear Miranda Priestly. “Florals? For spring? Groundbreaking.” Except we think these amazing, life-like buttercream flowers truly are something special.