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    Home » Decorated Cupcakes

    Easy Floral Cupcake Decorating Idea

    Published: Aug 31, 2020 · Modified: Aug 4, 2022 by Priya Maha

    Floral cupcake decorating ideas need not be difficult. People often feel that floral themed decoration on cupcakes or even cookies are time consuming and require a more advanced level of decorating skill set.

    3 sets of cupcakes covered in green icing and decorated in floral design

    But that need not be the case at all. Well, at least for me. I love cake and cupcake decorating, but the amount of time I put into any project would really depend on the occasion the these goodies are made for (only when I am baking on a personal account. Its different when I bake for customers, the decision on the design would depend on my customers and their budget).

    For instance, if I am baking and decorating a cake or cupcakes of a picnic or simple tea get together with family, I would prefer a simpler and less time consuming decorating ideas because I know we are there more for eating and having a good time as compared to a birthday party or a baby shower party where the intention is to celebrate someone, and therefore I don’t mind putting in for time for the person we are celebrating for, to make him or her feel special and appreciated.

    So, here are a few easy floral cupcake decorating ideas I have created before. I personally like floral themed decorations, so I have a tendency to choose this theme more than others when I am decorating without any special requests from anyone.


    Easy Floral Cupcake Decorating Ideas - How To

    These cupcakes were decorated with a few different types of floral. If you can see, most of these are often used as filler flowers. This means they are normally not the main floral on a cake or cupcakes but are rather used to complement the main flowers.

    I always have these filler floral on hand, either left overs for another cake or cupcake project or extras that I normally make in advance to use for rush orders.

    These are a list of flowers that went onto these cupcakes and a little description on how I made them:

    • Mini daisies and large daisies – these were cut out of fondant with daisy flower petal cutters. The centers are yellow dots of royal icing. I let these flowers set in a painting palette. The curved bottom of the palette set the flowers into a natural bloom.
    • Pink 5 petals flower – these are piped royal icing flowers and were extras from a wedding cake order. The flowers are piped using Wilton rose petal tip. The centers are royal icing in dark shade of pink.
    • Mini 5 petals pink and magenta flowers with centers – these are the easiest. They are cut out from fondant with plunger cutters. The cutters come in a set of about 5 cutters of same flower design but in different sizes.

    Here is how I made the floral cupcakes:

    • The cupcakes are baked using my butter pound cake recipe. I baked them in silver cupcake liners. The cupcakes turned out only slightly domed and it was exactly how I wanted them to be.
    • The frosting for the cupcakes is none other than my buttercream. I tinted the buttercream in Wilton Moss Green for one part. The other part was left at its original ivory shade.
    • Assembling the floral cupcakes was fairly easy. I tried to create different sets of floral designs. The first set was a combination of the pink royal icing flowers and mini daisies. I balanced the size of the larger pink flowers and mini daisies by having a few daisies grouped together on a single cupcake compared to the pink flowers which were placed individually on each cupcake. 
    4 cupcakes on a white plate, 2 covered in white icing and pink flowers while the other 2 covered in green icing and decorated with fondant daisies.

    • The second set had a combination of all the mini flowers, i.e. the mini daisies and mini 5 petal flowers. I mixed and matched the flowers so that each cupcake had a balance of all the colors of the flowers.
    4 cupcakes covered in green icing and decorated with pink and white fondant flowers

    • For the third floral set, I tried having one large flower and one mini flower on each cupcake. So I had a set of large and mini daisies on some cupcakes while the others cupcakes had the pink royal icing flower and mini 5 petals flower.
    • These flowers were set on ivory buttercream covered cupcakes. I also added a buttercream leaf for the pink royal icing flower to give the floral cupcakes a touch of the color green in its decoration.
    4 cupcakes on a white plate, 2 covered in white icing and pink flowers while the other 2 covered in green icing and decorated with fondant daisies.

    And that’s it. I hope you enjoyed this easy floral cupcake decorating idea.

    Thank you for reading 🙂

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