Only the office’s most talented baker, Holly, could bake a cupcake that’s almost too beautiful to eat. Mum’s the word on these beauties.
8 vanilla cupcakes
¼ cup blue, white, light yellow, bright pink, bright yellow, orange, and purple decoration sugars. (Any colors you have will work)
1 bag flavored mini marshmallows (assorted pastel colors)
1 bag mini marshmallows
1 cup vanilla frosting
40 pastel – colored licorice pastels (I used Mike & Ikes)
1. Place each colored sugar in separate shallow bowl. Sort out 22 like-colored marshmallows for each cupcake. Make the petals for each cupcake by cutting the 22 mini marshmallows in half on the diagonal, allowing all of the marshmallow pieces to fall into one of the colored sugars. Shake the bowl and press the cut sides of the marshmallows into the sugar to coat. Repeat with the remaining marshmallows and colored sugars.
2. Spread a thin layer of frosting on top of 1 cupcake. Starting along the outside edge of the cupcake, arrange like-colored marshmallow petals, sugared sides up, close together. Continue with another 2 rows of the same color marshmallows to almost completely cover cupcake. Repeat with the remaining frosting, cupcakes, and marshmallows
3. For the stamen, insert 5 like-colored licorice pastels in the center of each cupcake.
