These cupcakes are stunning, frankly. They are indeed easy to make and
they look great on a tiered plate or cupcake tree. So first,
the basic how-to:
The petals are the biggest part that takes forever- however, it's really
simple to do just time consuming. We bought a bag of white
mini-marshmallows and a bag of the colored ones. We sorted the pink and
yellow marshmallows ( which look surprisingly similar to the orange
ones) for the pink and yellow flowers. Then, you cut the marshmallow on
the diagonal to expose a sticky side and you dip the sticky inner part
in fine sanding sugar as show in the photo. Each cupcake takes about 22
mini-marshmallows before you slice them. Because the marshmallow and
frosting can dry out, we prepare them in the following order:
1. Count out your 22 mini marshmallows.
2. Quickly cut them on the diagonal.
3. Dip them in the sanding sugar.
4. Frost the base layer of frosting on the cupcake and place the petals in three rows starting from the outside ring first then creating the inner rings.
5. Pipe a swirl of frosting in the center.
6. Repeat for each cupcake.
The reason for doing this in the order is (1) you don't want the
marshmallow sticky center to dry out before you dip them in the sugar so
don't cut more than can quickly dip (2) you don't want to the frosting
to harden before you place the petals so don't frost the cupcake until
you are ready to place the petals.
Here are created four different colors...yellow marshmallows with yellow sanding sugar.
Hot pink sanding sugar with light pink marshmallows...this had great contrast.
Bright blue sanding sugar and white marshmallows. Again great contrast.
The more subtle lavender sugar with the white marshmallows.
found here...
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