Saturday, November 20, 2010

Sunflower with Ladybug Cupcake

To be able to save some money and get away with your own design, why not try decorating your own cupcakes and cakes? It actually does not require any expertise but you need to have lots of practice and patience.

If you want your cupcakes to be a great hit, try making your own Sunflower with a Ladybug Cupcake. It is so easy to make even though the finished product looks extremely intricate. To begin, you’ll need regular sized cupcakes with three colored icing: green, yellow and orange. You’ll also need a pastry bags and a leaf tip. If you don’t own this particular tip or a pastry bag, you can use a Ziploc bag and cut a small triangle on one of its corners to create a leaf tip.

Cake Decorating Video

Start your decorating your cupcake with green icing and place an Oreo cookie in the center. Take your pastry bag with leaf tip and fill with yellow and orange icing. Make petal patterns starting from the base and all around the cookie. You can make as many layers of sunflower petals as you like. To make the lady bug, take a red candy coated chocolate and add some details to transform it into a ladybug. Then place the ladybug on top of one of the petals.

For a more realistic sunflower cupcake, add leaf details by cutting green Froot roll-ups. Stick this Froot roll-up leaves at the bottom petals for a wonderful effect.

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