Beautiful Blooming Succulent Cupcakes

Instructions

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1. - 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.
2. - While cupcakes are in the oven, prepare a batch and a half of our Easy Vanilla Buttercream Frosting.
3. - 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.
4. - 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.
5. - Leave the remaining batch of buttercream frosting as is, should be 1 cup. There should be more than is needed to complete this recipe.
6. - Once batches are mixed, they are ready to be loaded into piping bags with specific tips attached.
7. - 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.
8. - Once decorated, plate and enjoy!

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.

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