Floral Fantasy Cupcakes

Ingredients & Tools
Instructions

Instructions

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Bake cupcakes.
Prepare cake batter following recipe instructions. Bake and cool in white cupcake liners.
Tint icing.
Combine Violet and Burgundy icing colors to get light, medium, and dark violet colors shown. Combine Pink and Ivory icing colors to get light and medium pink colors shown. Combine Moss Green and Lemon Yellow icing colors to get light green color shown. Combine Moss Green, Lemon Yellow and Brown icing colors to get dark green color shown.
Tint one cup icing each light violet, medium violet, dark violet, light pink, medium pink, light green and dark green following color combinations provided. Using Ivory icing color, tint remaining cup icing ivory.
Pipe flowers.
Using flower nail and flower making squares, pipe flowers as follows (transfer flowers on flower making squares to cake board when completed):
Prepare three decorating bags with couplers. Fill separately with light pink, medium pink and ivory icing. Using tips 101, 102, 103 and 104, pipe several roses, varying in size.
Prepare decorating bag with tip 103 and dark green icing. Using ivory icing, change to tip 103. Pipe desert rose flowers.
Helpful Hint: Watch tip between uses if only using one petal dip 103. Prepare decorating bag with coupler and light violet icing. Using tip 81, pipe mums. Prepare decorating bag with coupler and dark violet icing. Using tip 59s, pipe violets. Using ivory icing, change to tip 2; pipe centers of violets. Prepare decorating bag with coupler and medium violet icing. Using tip 104, pipe daises. Using ivory icing, change to tip 233; pipe centers of daisies. Freeze all flowers on cake board until hardened, about 20 minutes. Reserve all remaining icing.
Decorate cupcakes.
Remove flowers from flower squares; arrange on cupcakes.
Prepare decorating bag with tip 2D; fill with light, medium and dark violet icings, allowing colors to mix in bag. Pipe drop flowers on cupcake. Using medium violet icing, change to tip 16; pipe centers of drop flowers.
Prepare decorating bag with tip 352; fill with light and dark green icings, allowing colors to mix in bag. Pipe leaves around flowers.
Using ivory icing, change to tip 3; pipe dots in between flowers.

Notes

How To

How to Pipe Buttercream Roses
Instantly elevate your dessert with an elegant buttercream rose. Made by layering petals on a flower nail, this blooming buttercream flower is easy to make once you get the hang of it! Use a standard petal tip and stiff buttercream frosting to make a whole garden of roses for your next baking project.
How to Pipe Icing Leaves
Make a simple, versatile leaf to add realistic details to flowers. Leaf tips can also be used to make simple flowers, such as sunflowers.
How to Pipe a Daisy
Try some fun color combinations: yellow petals with yellow or blue centers, violet or blue petals with yellow centers and peach petals with orange centers. Highlight centers with Wilton Cake Sparkles, or colored sugars.
How to Pipe an Icing Star Drop Flower
Pipe flowers with a simple straight up motion. Used sparingly, star drop flowers make delicate accents (especially those made with smaller tips) and are also great fill-in decorations. Using different tips will create different flower effects. Tip 1B is perfect for making hydrangeas, whereas tip 225 creates delicate blossoms.
Stunning Succulent Cakes
Learn how to use the decorating tips in your collection to create amazing blooming succulents. Great for tea parties, birthdays, bridal showers and weddings, these stunning mini cakes are a great way to showcase your decorating skills. Mix and match succulent styles and colors to create the edible garden of your dreams!
How to Pipe a Chrysanthemum (Mum)
The Chrysanthemum is a fall classic but can be seen on cakes year-round in many seasonal colors. And it’s easier to pipe than you would think. The secret to success--the curved opening of specialty tip 81 used with a simple leaf-making motion.
Violet
The Violet is an ideal "filler" flower. Use it to give an abundant look to all kinds of floral cakes. It looks beautiful in white and yellow as well as violet.
How to Pipe Swirl Drop Flowers
Made by adding a simple twist motion, swirl drop flowers have petals with a bit more flair and dimension, leading to open-looking Blossoms.