Cake

HYDRANGEA CUPCAKE

Spring is here!! The month of March is going to be a FLOWER CUPCAKES month!! Every cupcakes are very versatile because you can use any flavor of cupcake, you can decorate it with any color of frosting, both depending on what kind of flower you’d like to make. It’s really easy to make, so get your piping tips ready!!

It all starts with the cupcake, of course. You can bake your cupcake with any flavor you want, but the frosting should be vanilla or cream cheese because then you can color it to any color that your want. I went to the store and pick the flowers that I want to make, then I do color matching for each flower.

To make the petals, you will need a flower nail and some parchment paper squares.

This flower nail is the base of where you’ll make your petals. You can get them in cake decorating store, hobby store, or you can get them in Amazon. Now the parchment paper you can get them already in mini squares but I usually just get my parchment sheet and cut them in squares. Squeeze a little bit of the frosting and place the parchment square on top. The frosting acts as a “glue” so the parchment square does not move around.

Then using a leaf tip or tip #352, we are going to make the petals. Make sure that you rest the piping tip so it is facing like the “>” sign. Different way of holding it, will make a different shape of frosting.

Then you make 4 small petal by rotating the nail for each petals. Here’s a picture and a video on how to make it.

Voila!!! Petals!! Add a dab of green food coloring in the middle to make it more realistic. Then it’s off to work!! Make lots and lots of the petals because hydrangeas has a lot of petals. After you make them, freeze them in the freezer for about 30 minutes to an hour so that it hardens and it will be easier to place on the cupcake. For the cupcake, make sure that it has a dome and not flat. Different cupcake will need different base so you can adjust to what you are making.