Beautifully Embroidered Spring Cupcakes

Instructions

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1. - Bake cupcakes. Preheat the oven to 350°F. Line 2 12-cup cupcake pans with liners.
2. - In a large bowl, combine flour, baking powder and salt; set aside.
3. - In a second large bowl, beat butter and sugar with an electric mixer on medium speed until light and fluffy.
4. - Add eggs, one at a time, and vanilla; mix well. Add flour mixture alternately with milk, beating well after each addition. Continue beating one minute. Divide evenly into prepared cups.
5. - Bake for 19-23 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center of the cupcake comes out clean. Cool cupcakes in a pan on a cooling rack for 5 minutes. Remove from pan and cool completely.
6. - Tint frosting. Using food coloring, tint 1 cup icing each Delphinium Blue, Creamy Peach and Ivory. Tint 1 cup icing each medium lilac and light blue using the following color combinations.
   • Lilac: Combine Violet and touch of Rose icing colors
   • Light Blue: Combine Royal Blue and touch of Violet icing colors
   • Reserve remaining frosting white
7. - Frost cupcakes. Using spatula and Delphinium Blue, Creamy Peach, Ivory, medium lilac and light blue frostings, frost cupcakes smooth.
8. - Decorate cupcakes. Prepare a decorating bag with tip 1 and white frosting.
9. - Lightly outline desired shapes. Starting at the outline and working towards the center, pipe thin tight lines to fill. Once filled, overpipe outline using heavier pressure.
10. - Using bead technique, pipe flower stems.
11. - Repeat thin line piping technique used to make flowers to make leaves.
12. - Pipe accent dots as desired. Pipe center dots or add sugar pearls.

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