These sunflower cupcakes are minty fresh and easy-as-can-be.
What You Need: 1 cupcake; frosting (white or whatever you’d like); yellow mini mints (smooth and melty, the kind with white nonpareils on the flat side); chocolate sprinkles.
How to Make It: Frost cupcake white. Add yellow mints, arranged in two circles but leaving a space in the center. Sprinkle chocolate jimmies in the center, guiding them with your hand or a funnel.
In a future post, we’ll show you how to make sunflower cupcakes with a decorating bag and star tip, but for those of you without the tools or time for that fanciness, here’s how to go about making easy sunflower cupcakes.
What You Need: 1 cupcake (baked and cooled); icing tinted yellow; brown M&Ms.
How To Make It: Frost cupcake yellow. Make sure to get a good, thick coat of icing on there. Then, use a knife or small spatula to pull the frosting up into peaks. Then simply drop three brown M&Ms into the center. Voila! Sunflowers.
This is the day the teddy bears have their picnic … on your cupcakes, that is! Gummy bears chill out under parasols on this quick cupcake.
What You Need: 1 cupcake (baked and cooled); white or green frosting; coconut and green food coloring (optional); gummy bears; paper umbrella.
How To Make It: Frost cupcake with white or green icing. Tint coconut green and sprinkle on cupcake for grass. Open paper umbrella and stick into cupcake. Arrange as many gummy bears as you’d like at your picnic.
Bring a bit of sunshine to your cupcakes with this easy design using candy corn (Hit those after-Halloween sales now!)
What You Need: 1 cupcake (baked and cooled); white or off-white frosting; yellow paste or liquid food coloring; candy corn; 2 chocolate chips; bit of red licorice (or use red writing icing.)
Make That Cupcake!: Tint icing yellow and frost cupcake. Arrange candy corn, pointy end out, around edge of cupcake for sun’s rays. Place 2 chocolate chips for eyes and add a licorice smile.
