Valentines Cupcakes! Make a Flower Pull-apart Cupcake Cake - A Cupcake Addiction How To Tutorial how to make
Valentines Cupcakes! Make a Flower Pull-apart Cupcake Cake - A Cupcake Addiction How To Tutorial
English (United Kingdom) English (United Kingdom) Hello and welcome to Cupcake Addiction's SpringFlowers Pull-apart Cupcake Cake Tutorial where I'll be showing you how to make this gorgeousand very versatile spring flowers pull-apart cupcake cake.Tools and equipment that we will be using today:I've got just a disposable piping bag and I've paired that with a round tip piping nozzle.I think I'm using a Loyal number but you can use any round piping nozzle you like.I've filled that with some of our perfectly pipeable buttercream frosting which I've tinteda lovely rich pink color. I've also got a little bit more of that frostingover here. That's a lighter pink color. I will leave a link in the description box belowto that great recipe and tutorial if you don't have a frosting that you love.I've got a zip lock bag. I've got a pair of scissors.I've got just some regular white marshmallows. I've got some spearmint leaf candies.I've got a green twizzler. If you're in the US, you'll be able to find green twizzlers.If you're not, if you're in Australia like I am, you can also substitute these for thegreen fruit sticks. They look a little bit like [musk] stick available in our (Inaudible sticks and they come in green in those packets.I've got a teaspoon and a toothpick. Alright, so let's get started.I'm doing mine today on a board. So I'm actually not using a cake board. I'm using a placemat, so something to think about. I got these ones on sale. I love the pattern on them.And you don't always have to get a cake board. If you find something like a place mat thatyou find in a good price, why not use that? I've got mini cupcakes today. So I'm using mini cupcakes. I mentioned this is versatile. You can go as many flowers as you like. Youcan use large cupcakes, small cupcakes. The concept is exactly the same.So what I've done is I've just positioned them to look like flowers on my board, justsort of move them around. And I've pre-stuck down these ones with a little bit of buttercreamfrosting. So what you want to do is you want to takea little bit of that buttercream frosting and just pop it on the bottom of your cupcakeand pop it back on the board. I always position them first and then I sort of frosting-stickthem down just so that I can make sure they're exactly where I want before I go marking theboard with any of that frosting. Just before you pop the last one in, takea little bit of that frosting and just pop it on the bottom of the marshmallow. You'regoing to put Now I've got quite a nice round top on oneside and the other side's a bit smaller so I'm going to go with the nice little flatround top. The smaller side is going to get another little blob of that frosting and stuckit on top of that marshmallow in the inside. You can use an extra cupcake for the insidebut I like the look of the inside piece being a little bit smaller.A little bit more frosting on that one. And those ones are ready to go. That's just goingto stop them from moving around. With my twizzlers down here. I actually toremy twizzler in half so I got each twizzler. They do tear quite easily andyou can also cut them if you like. But basically I just tore the twizzler in half and gaveit a little twist. The spearmint leaves speak for themselves.So to attach the twizzlers, it's really just as simple as a little bit more frosting, justa really little bit on the back. And you can also use white chocolate if you want themto be really really firmly stuck. I find the frosting's perfect for what I need. And I'vejust made quite a small one today with a to cupcake because it's just going to be meand my mom and my sister so we don't want that to be too many cupcakes, if there issuch a thing. A little bit of frosting on the back of thosespearmint leaves and stick them down. Lovely! Now, we're going to start by frosting ourlovely swirl. So you want to make sure that you're coming right into meet up with thecenter. And you want to go around sort of the outsides of the cupcake. So just balancingthe cupcake. They should be stuck to the board but you don't want them moving anywhere. Comearound in a nice big, low, smooth swirl. So you can see there, I'm starting really inthe center, come all the way into that marshmallow, going out and around. You can see the lovelypetal shapes that we're getting. And you're actually joining them all together by makingsure that you come out over the edges with those swirls.Alright, now have a look at that! They're already looking absolutely fantastic and youcan certainly leave them at that point if you wish. You can go with different colors.You can go with different styles, absolutely whatever you like. We're going to take itto the next level here at My Cupcake Addiction because that's what we like to do and we'rejust going to do a little bit of outlining and a bit of detail work.Alright, now with that lighter colored frosting. You want to take your zip lock bag and thatspoon. We're just going to spoon some of that lighter pink frosting into the zip lock bag.I can find some room down here with my large cake. Beautiful.Now, just zip it up most of the way. Then let any excess air out of the bag before sealingit up all the way. And we're just going to cut just a little nick off the end, so nottoo much, just a little corner. This is going to act like a little bit of a fine pipingbag for us. And we're just going to add a little bit of detail to these flowers.So starting at the center so that you're not going to have any gaps in between your marshmallowand the rest of your beautiful petals. We're just going to come out and we're just goingto trace around the edges of those petals. Once you've traced around the outside of yourpetals, just around your flower center. And there you have your gorgeous spring flowerpull-apart cupcake cake, perfect for Mother's Day, Valentine's or any spring time occasion.Hope you've enjoyed watching this tutorial as much as I've enjoyed making it for you.Thanks very much for watching.