Orange and Purple Dahlia Cupcakes

Make a whole edible garden with these orange and purple dahlia cupcakes. Made using specialty decorating tip 81, these cupcakes are simple enough for beginners and are great for summer birthdays and celebrations. While we used shades of purple and orange here, you could also make lovely dahlia flowers in all your favorite colors (pink and blue would be beautiful!). Make sure your icing is at stiff consistency so the petals remain upright after piping.

Prep1 hr 15 min
Total Time2 hr
Skill LevelBeginner

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Instructions

Instructions

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Bake Cupcakes. Prepare cake batter following recipe instructions. Bake and cool cupcakes in white cupcake liners.
Make Frosting Prepare buttercream to stiff consistency following recipe instructions.
Tint Frosting.Combine Violet, Pink and a touch of Peach icing colors to get light and dark purple colors shown. Combine Orange, Peach and Lemon Yellow icing colors to get orange color shown.
Tint ½ cup frosting each light purple, dark purple and orange using color combinations provided.
Decorate Cupcakes Divide cupcakes into three groups. Using spatula, lightly ice one group with each color of frosting, taking care not to go to edge of cupcake.
Prepare three decorating bags with couplers (if using) and tip 81.
Fill separately with remaining light purple, dark purple and orange frosting.