With This Icing Decorating Technique, You Can Create Gorgeous Hydrangea Cupcakes That Double As Both Sweet Treats And Stunning Table Centerpieces
I love baking in the spring and summer, as not only are some of the yummiest seasonal recipes trending once again, but it’s also an excuse to get colorful and experimental with decorating.
Have you ever seen cupcakes with complex icing work that makes them look like a beautiful flower? I always wanted to make floral cupcakes but felt like I didn’t have the skill set to make it happen.
But what if I told you that making floral cupcakes was easier than it may look?
One of the latest cupcake decorating trends is hydrangea cupcakes, which are stunning and colorful, and a plate of them can take the place of a beautiful floral arrangement in the middle of your table. Tiktoker @crateandbarrel is showing us how to get this look.
Making hydrangea cupcakes is all about how you use your frosting. You can use any frosting you’d like, as long as it’s white. For instance, you can go with a traditional vanilla buttercream or a tasty cream cheese frosting.
You’ll also need to grab some baking supplies from your local supply or grocery store. First, you need food coloring that coordinates with your favorite hydrangea colors. For instance, grab blue and green to make beautiful blue and white hydrangeas with green leaves.
For that beautiful petal effect, you’ll also need some frosting piping bags and star tips. You can get away with cutting a corner out of a Ziplock baggie for more plain cupcakes. But for these hydrangea cupcakes, you’ll want to treat yourself to some professional tools.
You can use any cupcake base you want to make your hydrangea cupcakes. You can make some box mix cupcakes or use a go-to homemade cupcake recipe in any flavor. Again, these hydrangea cupcakes are all about the frosting.
Prepare or purchase a batch of frosting that will yield enough to cover how many cupcakes you want to make.
TikTok – @crateandbarrel
Next, disperse the frosting into three different bowls to dye it. If you want to create blue and white hydrangeas with green leaves, add blue food coloring to one bowl of frosting and green to the other.
You can look up pictures of hydrangeas online and further experiment with the frosting colors, like using pink and purple food coloring.
Once your frosting is ready, prep a frosting piping bag with a star tip like a Wilton 2D tip. Then, take a scoop of the blue and white frosting and place them side by side in the bag so that when you frost your cupcakes, the colors seamlessly blend together like beautiful hydrangea petals.
When your bag is full, tie the end and test the look of your frosting by squeezing a bit out into a bowl. If you’re satisfied, it’s time to frost your cupcakes!
Pipe tiny stars around the top of each cupcake until they start looking like full, beautiful hydrangeas. Next, add your green frosting to a separate piping back and pipe a few small green ‘leaves’ on the sides to make the cupcakes look more realistic.
Add your stunning hydrangea cupcakes to a pretty spring platter, and there you have it, a lovely dessert that’s surely Instagram-worthy. These cupcakes are a great place to start if you want to experiment with more decorative baking, as they’re easy and gorgeous. Enjoy!
https://www.tiktok.com/@crateandbarrel/video/7350037470131785006?q=hydrangea%20cupcakes&t=1713913866047
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