Jellybean flower cupcake
What You Need: 1 cupcake; white frosting; green frosting; 6 yellow (or any color) jellybeans; 1 orange (or any color) candy for center (I used a Runt); pastry bag and leaf tip, or tubed icing with leaf tip.
How to Make It: Frost cupcake white. Arrange 6 jellybeans around center candy to form flower shape. Add green leaves.
Flower cupcake with teardrop petals
The easiest cupcakes are probably those where all you have to do is arrange candy or other toppings on your cupcake. These flower cupcakes are simple enough for little kids, and there are plenty of variations for the center, petals and leaves; just use your imagination.
What You Need: 1 cupcake; frosting (any color, really); teardrop-shaped sweet/sour candies or other candies; Junior Mint or other round candy; green fruit lace or strip of fruit leather, or just use writing icing.
How to Make It: Place Junior Mint in center of cupcake and surround with candies to form petals. Add candy leaves and fruit lace stem.
Pink Candy Corn Flower Cupcake
What could be easier than arranging candy corn around a candy raspberry? (The hardest part might be finding the candies, but you can always substitute! Use another seasonal color of candy corn and put a gumdrop in the center instead.)
What You Need: 1 cupcake; white frosting; 6 pink candy corns (sold around Valentine’s Day and in candy shops); gummi red raspberry candy.
How to Make It: Place raspberry candy in center of cupcake. Surround with candy corn with the pointy ends pointing inward to form a flower shape.
cupcake flower with candy corn
What You Need: 1 cupcake; white frosting; 7 pastel candy corns; 1 pastel M&M.
How to Make It: Frost cupcake. Place M&M upside down in the center of the cupcake. Surround with candy corn, alternating colors, with the white tips facing inward toward the M&M center.
These lovely, pink-tinged flowers are made from marshmallows. If you’d prefer a smaller flower, just use mini marshmallows. A more colorful flower: tinted marshmallows. You get the picture.
What You Need: 1 cupcake (baked and cooled); frosting (we used pink); marshmallows; round red candy; pink sugar crystals; kitchen shears (or plain old scissors, but they’ll get sticky.)
How to Make It: Frost cupcake. Cut three marshmallows in half as shown. Sprinkle with pink sugar crystals, which will stick to the sticky marshmallows. Arrange 5 marshmallow halves on top of cupcake and place red candy in center. (You will have an extra marshmallow petal left over. Eat it or make more cupcakes.)
