Heres my quick tutorial for a cupcake bouquet.
You can make sunflowers, roses, or any flower pattern you would like.
You will need:
Frosting in the colors of choice.
12-16 plastic 2oz sauce size cups
12-16 wooden or plastic dowels or bbq skewer sticks
A basket, flower pot, or bucket
Foam pieces (small pieces or a half circle)
Green tissue paper
12-16 cupcakes baked in paper, traditional size.
A knife or sizzors
After baking and cooling your cupcakes, fill your basket with foam. I used a dollar tree halloween sign and trimmed it into multiple pieces to fit inside my basket.
Then, using your knife or sizzors, poke a hole in the bottom middle of the cup and slide it onto your stick. Insert the sticks around the outside edge of your bucket. Then continue a second row leaving a little more length so there above the previous row, and finish off with one center cupcake.
Next, slide your cupcakes onto the sticks and tuck them into the cups. Take pieces of green tissue and fill in the gaps between the cupcakes.
Cut off the excess dowels if any, this may require you to remove the cupcake, cut, and put it back on, so that you dont get wood splinters on them. But putting them on before trimming helps you jugde the length, and also the point is an easier hole maker then the dull cut end.
Then you will decorate the cupcakes IN the arrangement. Its much easier than trying to get them on after decorating.
I made sunflowers, the center was a cut decorating bag with no tip and chocolate frosting, then brown sprinkles. Then I used a leaf tip and yellow frosting to make the petals, starting at the center and pulling to the outside, letting the edges drip off.
I finished of by adding a fondant bumble bee and ladybug, on toothpicks inserted into two cupcakes on top.
There is an alternative to use oreos as the sunflower centers, but they may slide off given the cupcakes are at an angle, so I went with the sprinkles.
Enjoy :)
The pictures will show progress from step 2 and completed work, I didnt take a foam picture prior to inserting the dowels.
