Our neighbors, the Wilsons, came over for FHE a couple weeks ago and Sister Wilson taught us how to decorate cupcakes with spring flowers. It was super easy and tons of fun.
You need: frosting, mini marshmallows, sugar, food coloring, scissors, crushed oreo cookies, gum drops, tooth picks and gummy life savers.
Use the food coloring - just a drop or two - with a little bit of sugar to make colored sugar.
Spread some frosting onto your cupcake. Use the scissors to cut the marshmallows in half diagonally.
Dip the marshmallow into the colored sugar.
Place the marshmallow on the cupcake, making a ring around the outer edge of the cupcake first, and then making a second smaller ring of marshmallows in the middle.
Finish the flower with a sprinkle of sugar in the middle to make the center of the flower.
To make gum drop flowers, spread some frosting on the cupcake. Dip the top of the cupcake into the oreo cookie crumbs so it looks like a flower pot with dirt. Stretch a gummy life saver over a gum drop. Use a toothpick to hold the life saver and gum drop together - it also serves as the stem. Then with the scissors make slits about half way through the life saver (3 on each side) to form the petals. Plant it in your cupcake.
Gardening has never tasted so sweet!
