Beautiful Buttercream Sunflower Cupcakes

Turn your summer shindig into a sunny celebration with these easy sunflower cupcakes. With two colors of frosting and two piping tips, you can decorate flower cupcakes that are great for any celebration.

Prep1 hr 15 min
Total Time2 hr
Skill LevelBeginner

Amount12 cupcakes

Ingredients & Tools
Instructions

Instructions

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Bake the cupcakes. Using an electric mixer, prepare the cupcake batter following the recipe instructions. Bake and cool completely before decorating.
Tint the icing.
- Tint 1 1/4 cup frosting yellow by combining the Lemon Yellow and Golden Yellow icing colors.
- Tint 1 1/4 cup frosting brown by combining Brown and Black icing colors to get the brown color shown.
- Tint 1 cup frosting Kelly Green (Optional)
Pipe the Sunflower Petals. Prepare a piping bag fitted with tip 352 and yellow frosting. Pipe a layer of petals around the outer edge of the cupcakes. Repeat for the second row on top of and overlapping the first row.
Pipe the Center. Prepare a piping bag fitted with tip 18 and brown frosting. Pipe stars to fill in the center of cupcakes.
(Optional) Pipe Green Leaves. Prepare a piping bag fitted with tip 352 and green frosting. Pipe a few leaves around the outer edge of the cupcakes to finish the look.