Today I'm going to show you how to make an adorable and simple Bouquet of Cupcakes!
I love buttercream flowers, and this beautiful bouquet of cupcakes design is the perfect excuse to make lots of them! This sweet cupcake bouquet design is so simple and fun, and is perfect for springtime as well as Valentine's Day & Mother's Day!
In this tutorial, I'm going to show you how to create several different varieties of buttercream flowers using a few simple piping tips and methods.
Are you ready?
Grab some cupcakes and BUTTERCREAM and off we go!--
First, I made some flowers with a frilly, vintage feel. I started with a dot of buttercream in the center (piped with a tip 12), and then I wrapped a band of icing around it using my Wilton petal tip 104.
This is one of my favorite flowers to make. Make sure that the small end of your piping tip is facing up as you pipe. Try to hold your piping bag steady with consistent pressure as you rotate your cupcake.
After finishing one rotation, I started on the next row. I spun the cupcakes counterclockwise with my left hand as I piped bands of buttercream with my right. You can see below that using an almost identical technique, I am able to get two completely different looking flowers just by angling my piping tip a little differently.
The flower on the left, a ruffled rose, was piped with my tip slightly angled into an open position. I did not form individual petals. Instead, they are simply long thin bands of icing.
When piping the flower on the right, I also used my tip 104 but did not angle my tip out as I piped. I kept it straight (parallel to the flower) the entire time, and the end result has the feel of a ranunculus.
Next, I used my Wilton piping tip 2D (large closed star) to make a hydrangea. I added little dots of green buttercream a little later to finish the look. Quick and easy!
Next, I frosted a few cupcakes with a coat of vanilla buttercream, allowed the icing to crust, and then smoothed with a Viva brand paper towel. This made a nice canvas for our daisies which I piped with a Wilton tip 104. (I love 104 tips!) I also used my tip 104 to pipe the leaves (tinted with Americolor Electric Green). I used a Wilton tip 3 to pipe the dotted centers (and for some flowers I used sugar pearls instead).
Next, I piped (Americolor Sky Blue) blossoms using my tip 104. I started by piping several petals around the outer edge (using a "c" shape motion with the tip parallel to the surface of the cupcake). Then, pipe an inner circle of petals with the piping tip slightly angled. I finished the flower with just one or two petals piped in the center.
After piping several flowers I decided to change gears and make fondant leaves. These leaves are completely optional, but I love to incorporate different mediums & textures whenever possible--I like the extra bit of interest the leaves add! I accented them with a paint made from Americolor Electric Green coloring gel mixed with a little vodka. I also made a small fondant daisies to use as miscellaneous filler.
Next, it's time to talk stems. Here are some pretty flowers from the grocery store. We chose flowers that had long stems so that we could cut & place the flowers in a vase for us, and still have enough leftover stems for our display! --
After cutting some nice long stems, I snipped them in half so that we could double the number.
I have seen similar cupcakes with "real" stems before and love the look-- it is the easiest way to pull the design together. We decided to add a sweet bow to up the cute factor even more ;0)
Here's a closeup of our flowers! Just choose your favorite flowers--whether fondant or buttercream or a combination of the two~
I also snuck in a blue gerbera daisy--we needed just one more blue flower. I piped it with a tip 81~ I added a little fondant butterfly that was leftover from another project too-- he's been patiently waiting in a drawer for a year now ;0) Glad that I was finally able to use him! Little ladybugs or bumble bees would be adorable too.
That's it! Our bouquet is finished--and I think that it came out as sweet as can be.
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I hope that you'll whip up a bouquet of cupcake flowers sometimes soon! If you do, make sure to post a photo in the comments below--we would LOVE to see! xo
This is beautiful! I am going to try this for my sister's bridal shower. Since there are about 30 people coming, I am planning on making 2 bouquets, one yellow cake and one chocolate cake. Do you recommend any particular cupcake recipes that would be best for this?
Hi Sarah, This will be perfect for a bridal shower. Your favorite recipe would be fine to use. We often use the White Almond Sour Cream doctored recipe. We also like to use the Classic Chocolate scratch or the doctored chocolate recipe...actually any of the chocolate recipes. Cupcakes made with the doctored recipes usually have a higher dome.
Hope all goes well for your party.
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I so love this!!! It is so beautiful!! I am making this for my mother in law's birthday in June. I am gonna do a mix of buttercream and fondant flowers. She will be so surprised! The only thing I am not good at making is the bows so I will have to practice.
@Maureen-- I'm so glad that you are making it! For the bow, it's just a regular ribbon...not a fondant/gum paste bow ;0) Have fun!
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Hi! My daughter wants this bouquet for her birthday in a couple days, but would like red velvet cupcakes with cream cheese frosting. I will be trying your from scratch red velvet recipe with the pipeable cream cheese frosting. Will this work for the bouquet (she would like me to color it exactly as pictured; I do have Americolor gel)? Or should I convince her to do the classic vanilla with buttercream frosting?
Thank you!
Hi Denise! Yes, you can color cream cheese frosting. As far as the flowers, You should be able to pipe most if not all of these-- If you have trouble with the ruffled flowers, you could do large rosettes instead (starting in the center of the cupcake with a 2D or 1M tip and spiraling outward) but I think if the frosting is chilled when you're working with it, it will be fine. - Add a little more powdered sugar as needed.
The flavor combination of red velvet and cream cheese frosting is just SO good that my vote would be to stay with the cream cheese ;0)
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That's great! There are so many delicious recipes and fun techniques to try- Have fun experimenting!! xo