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Brighten Up Your Day with Easy Sunflower Cupcakes

Brighten Up Your Day with Easy Sunflower Cupcakes

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Sunflower Cupcakes are simple to make with a leaf piping tip and easy cookie center. They make the perfect dessert for a floral or garden-themed party!

Are you looking for a simple yet stunning dessert to brighten up any occasion? I’m a sucker for gorgeous cupcakes but don’t really want to spend hours in the kitchen decorating elaborate floral designs. Once I made these gorgeous flower cupcakes, I realized how simple it really was to pipe on flower cupcakes in many designs without having a pastry or baking degree.

In this post, we’ll show you how to make and decorate adorable sunflower cupcakes that are super easy, but also absolutely delightful to look at. Whether you’re planning a summer picnic, hosting a garden-themed party, or just craving something cheerful and delicious, these sunflower cupcakes are going to be the star dessert at your event!  

Sunflower Cupcakes

Sunflower Cupcakes

What do you need to make sunflower cupcakes?

You’ll need baked cupcakes in your favorite flavor. We used chocolate here but you can use vanilla if you want or pretty much any other flavor maybe except for Red Velvet because the color would clash 🙂

You’ll also need yellow and green frosting and mini Oreo cookies which is our trick in making an easy flower center without decorating! 

Lastly a leaf piping tip like Wilton’s #352 is helpful to create the petals. 

Do I need to make homemade frosting or cake?

Nope! You can use a cake mix for the cupcakes which we’ve done dozens of time to decorate cute cupcakes. And use ready-made frosting you can tint with your favorite gel food coloring 

Of course, you can bake up your own homemade cupcakes and frosting – we have a delicious and easy vanilla buttercream frosting we use in our frosted sugar cookies if you want to go homemade!

Sunflower Cupcakes – Ingredients

Sunflower Cupcakes

Sunflower Cupcakes

Sunflower Cupcakes

Agnes Hsu
Sunflower Cupcakes are simple to make with a leaf piping tip and easy cookie center. They make the perfect dessert for a floral or garden-themed party!

Ingredients
  

  • Baked Cupcakes 
  • Yellow and green tinted frosting
  • Wilton #352 leaf piping tip or similar
  • Mini Oreo cookies

Instructions
 

  • Watch the video in this post to see how easy these sunflower cupcakes are to make! Or read steps below.
  • Spread a small amount of yellow frosting on the center of your cupcake and press down a mini Oreo cookie.
  • Pipe 3 layers of petals using your leaf piping tip radiating from the inner circle of the cookie outwards to the edge to create the sunflower petals.
  • Pipe a couple of green leaves using the same tip on the edges. As many as you'd like but we stuck to two on opposite corners.

Video

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Agnes Hsu is a mom of three and has been inspiring parents and kids to get creative with easy activities and family friendly recipes for over 10 years. She shares her love for creative play and kids food to her 2MM+ followers online. Agnes' commitment to playful learning and kindness has not only raised funds for charity but also earned features in prestigious nationwide publications.