I'm making birthday cupcakes for my mom today. Looking for a great recipe.?

I would like to use piped icing, then a flower on top as decoration (a real, edible flower, or fondant-made)





Can anyone point me in the right direction?

I'm making birthday cupcakes for my mom today. Looking for a great recipe.?
Use your favorite cake recipe, don't limit your search to cupcake recipies. It's the same batter, different size. I like chardonnay cake with fresh fruit. As far as flowers, orchids are edible and come in great colors. Some other common edible flowers are pansies, Johnny Jump Ups, clovers and roses. Candied rose petals are great, and would be suitable for a dessert. Cook them in simple syrup (equal parts sugar and water). When you remove them gently, sprinkle them with more sugar.
Reply:Ingredients


9 cups powdered sugar


4 1/2 tablespoons powdered egg whites


12 tablespoons warm water


2 drops food coloring (Paste Food Coloring works best)











Directions


1) Combine powdered sugar, powered egg whites and water until smooth. (Water can be adjusted to obtain the right consistency.)The consistency of the icing should be firm enough so that when a spoon is withdrawn, the icing which is drawn up will not settle back, but stay in exactly the shape drawn. However, do not make the icing too stiff or it will not flow freely through the decorator bag with tip.


2) Separate Icing into separate bowls. Add a different color of Paste Food Coloring to each bowl of Icing to obtain the desired colors for decorating the cookies.


3) Place the Piped Icing in a decorating bag fitted with a decorating tip and decorate cookies.


4) Let cookies dry completely prior to storing them.
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Reply:Betty crocker click go to baking section. use ice cream cones to bake them in colored ones are fun.
Reply:1/2 cups white chocolate melting wafers


1/4 cup each orange, pink and yellow decorating sugar


50 assorted orange, pink and yellow spice drops


Black licorice laces


24 blackberry jellies with black nonpareils, or Crows or black gumdrops


48 yellow M%26amp;M’s


1 can (16 oz) vanilla frosting


12 vanilla cupcakes baked in white paper liners


Multicolored chocolate-covered sunflower seeds (see Note)


24 candy spearmint leaves, sliced horizontally in thirds


48 natural almond slices





PREPARATION


1. Daisies: Put the flower petal template on a baking sheet and cover with wax paper. Put white chocolate melting wafers in a ziptop bag; do not seal. Microwave 10 seconds to soften. Squeeze, return to microwave and repeat until smooth. Press out excess air and seal. Snip a small corner from the bag. Pipe outline of the petal with melted chocolate and fill in with more chocolate. Tap pan lightly to settle. Repeat, making 108 petals. Refrigerate to set, about 5 minutes.





2. Phlox: Sprinkle work surface with the orange sugar. Press 2 orange spice drops together and roll out on the sugared surface to 1/16 in. thick. Follow the template (see Note in margin) to cut out the flower shapes with clean scissors. Repeat with the remaining sugar and the spice drops of each color to make about 30 flowers.





3. Bees: For each bee, cut a licorice lace into three 3/4-in. pieces; cut each in half lengthwise for antennae. Cut 3 pieces of licorice into 1/2-in. pieces and taper one end for the stinger.





4. Cut the blackberry candy in half crosswise. Place a yellow M%26amp;M flat against the cut side of the blackberry candy piece. Place the other cut end on the other side of the M%26amp;M, to sandwich. Trim a small slice from flat end of the blackberry candy. Attach 2 pieces of licorice as antennae, and another M%26amp;M as the head.





5. Spoon 1/4 cup vanilla frosting into a ziptop bag, press out excess air and seal. Spread remaining vanilla frosting on top of cupcakes.





6. Peel white chocolate petals from wax paper. Cut orange spice drops in half crosswise. Using about 6 petals per flower, arrange 3 flowers on each of six cupcakes. Place orange spice drops, cut side down, in center of petals. Add spearmint leaf slices.





7. Using 5 flowers per cupcake, arrange phlox on cupcakes. Pipe a small dot of white frosting in the center of each flower and add a sunflower seed. Add spearmint leaves.





8. Put 2 bee bodies on top of a cupcake. Add licorice stingers at tail ends. Press 2 almond slices into frosting as wings.





I MADE THESE!!! SOO CUTE!!!





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