Pink and Coral Spring Cupcakes

Instructions

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1. - Bake cupcakes. Prepare cake batter following recipe instructions. Bake and cool cupcakes in white cupcake liners.
2. - Tint frosting. Using Pink icing color, tint 2 cups frosting pink. Tint 2 cups frosting coral using color combination provided. Reserve remaining frosting white.
   • Combine Pink and Lemon Yellow icing colors to get coral color shown.
3. - Tint fondant. Tint 3 oz. fondant light green using color combination provided. Roll fondant 1/8 in. thick.
   • Combine Lemon Yellow and a touch of Royal Blue icing colors to get light green color shown.
4. - Using smooth side of smallest 3 leaf cutters, cut out leaves. Let dry, about 1 hour.
5. - Decorate cupcakes. Prepare decorating bag with tip 1M and pink frosting. Prepare second decorating bag with tip 2D and coral frosting. Prepare third decorating bag with tip 3 and white frosting.
6. - Using 1M bag, pipe rosette on some cupcakes. Insert 2 larger leaves into sides of rosette.
7. - Using 2D bag, pipe drop flowers on some cupcakes; add centers with white sugar pearls. Insert smallest leaves into sides of flowers.
8. - Using 1M bag, pipe small rosettes on some cupcakes. Using 2D bag, add a few drop flowers; add centers with white sugar pearls. Using tip 3 bag, pipe dots to fill in any empty spaces. Position 2 smallest leaves into sides of flowers.