Picnic Pals Cupcakes

Ingredients & Tools
Instructions

Ingredients

Favorite cupcake recipe or mix
Green Icing Pouch with Tips
Red Icing Pouch with Tips
Ready-To-Use Lemon Yellow Icing Tube
Mini Daisy Multi-Color Icing Decorations, 32-Count
Large Candy Eyeballs, 1 oz.

Tools
Black Ready-To-Use Icing Tube
Bright Standard Cupcake Liners, 300-Count
Perfect Results 12 Cup Mini Muffin Pan
Perfect Results Cooling Rack, 3 Tier, Non-Stick
Standard Petal Tip 61
Coupler Rings 4 Piece
Decorator Preferred 9inch Angled Spatula

Instructions

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Bake and cool cupcakes.
Decorate flower cupcake.

Use Green Decorating Icing Pouch and star tip to cover top with pull-out stars for grass.
Position flower icing decorations.
Decorate bee cupcake.

Use Yellow Decorating Icing Pouch with round tip to fill in top of cupcake with zigzags.

Use spatula to smooth.

Use black icing tube with round tip to pipe lines across cupcake, outline mouth and pull-out dot stinger.

Use white icing pouch with round tip to pipe two elongated bead wings.

Position candy eyeballs.
Decorate ladybug cupcake.

Use red icing pouch with round tip to fill in top of cupcake with zigzags.

Use spatula to smooth. Use black icing tube with round tip to outline and fill in head area.

Use spatula to smooth. Use black icing tube to pipe line between wings and dots on wings.

Position candy eyeballs.

Notes

How To

How to Pipe Beads
The bead shape makes impressive borders outlines and accents on letters and designs; also a cute trim on clothing and gingerbread houses. The basis for making piped hearts and figure piping.
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.
How to Pipe Grass & Fur
The grass tip creates the most celebrated, easily accomplished decorations! The serrated edges of the grass tip makes ridges in the icing as you squeeze it out. Our step-by-step video shows you how!