Floral Bouquet First Birthday Cupcakes

This cupcake design is inspired by Martha Stewart's Chrysanthemum Cupcakes.Create a beautiful bouquet of flower cupcakes stacked on a tiered cupcake stand. Cover the cupcake stand's surface with a wrapping paper that complements the flower cupcakes to double the visual impact.

Difficulty Rating: Medium-Hard

Ingredients

• Plain tiered cupcake stand
• Wrapping paper that compliments the party's design or color scheme
• Fluted pastry bag tip to create the petals
• 1 pastry bag
• Food coloring to mix with the butter cream frosting (whatever color you'd like the flower petals to be)
• Green food coloring for the base cupcake frosting

Directions

• Add green food coloring to white buttercream frosting to create a beautiful pastel shade of green. Use this batch of buttercream to cover all the cupcakes in a inch thick layer of even frosting with a fairly flat top.
• Mix the food coloring of your choice with another batch of buttercream frosting to create the perfect shade for your flower petals. Add one cup at a time of the colored frosting into a pastry bag with no tip on.
• In the center of each cupcake, add a quarter-sized spherical blob of the petal-colored buttercream frosting.
• Once all of the cupcakes have a big dollop in the middle, attach the fluted pastry bag tip to the bag. Now youre ready to create the petals of the chrysanthemum.
• Create a first layer of base petals by piping a 1.5 inch piece of frosting while pulling upward. Then create the next petal directly adjacent to the previous, moving around the center blob in a circle.
• Once you have the first layer of petals, your flower should resemble a daisy. Create the 3-D chrysanthemum by repeating the above step for two or three more layers. Each layer of petals should be piped on shorter than the layer below it. Remember to always pull upward as you pipe the petal on.