Wow Your Mom on Mother’s Day!

For Mom [1]

Can’t decide on flowers or candy? Then give your mom both – and some cupcakes to boot.

These cute candy flowers were inspired by fellow flickr user mommawants1more [2]. She does a great job with this creative candy technique. Then I also found this decorating style featured in the book, The Whimsical Bakehouse [3], and saw how easy it was to do using colored candy melts. And you know, I have my fair share of those laying around the kitchen lately. So you guessed it, I started melting. Read below to see how you can do it too.

Flower Cupcakes [4]

Find a design you want to use or draw it by hand for a more whimsical feel.
Place the drawing on a cookie sheet and cover with wax paper. Tape it down flat so it doesn’t move. Use one unmelted yellow candy melt for each flower center.

Candy Melts [5]

Melt the white candy coating and use a plastic bottle (shown) or ziploc bag with the corner cut out to pipe the outline of your shape. Place in the freezer for a couple of minutes until hardened. Remove.

Candy Melts [6]

Fill in the shapes with a second color. It shouldn’t be too hot. (or too hard… my niece even helped me with this.)

My little helper [7]

Return to freezer to harden. Remove and flip over to reveal the flat side to display on your cupcakes. Easy!

Mini Cupcakes [8]

And if you want to make some letters, that’s easy too! Use an alphabet mold and fill shape with melted candy. Freeze for a few minutes and then, pop them out.

Alphabet Molds [9]

WOW [10]

Perfect!

You’ll need:
Frosted Cupcakes
Squeeze Bottle or Ziploc Bag
Cookie Sheet with Wax Paper (taped flat)
Colored Candy Melts
… and a steady hand

Here’s three brands of candy melts:
Make ‘n Mold Candy Melts [11]
Mercken’s Candy Coatings [12]
Wilton Candy Melts [13]

Here’s some fun stuff if you’re up for it:
Alphabet Candy Molds [14]
The Whimsical Bakehouse [3] (shows some examples and instruction on how to use this technique.)

And if you’re not up to the challenge:
Visit Sugar Coated Love [15] and maybe mommawants1more [2] can make some for you.

Mother's Day Cupcakes [16]

This delicious recipe brought to you by Bakerella
https://www.bakerella.com/wow-your-mom-on-mothers-day/

URLs in this post:

[1] Image: http://www.flickr.com/photos/bakerella/2456163222/

[2] fellow flickr user mommawants1more: http://www.flickr.com/photos/79539092@N00/sets/72157601970528349/

[3] The Whimsical Bakehouse: http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FWhimsical-Bakehouse-Fun-Make-Cakes%2Fdp%2F0609608967%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Dbooks%26qid%3D1209610502%26sr%3D8-1&tag=bakerella-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=9325

[4] Image: http://www.flickr.com/photos/bakerella/2456161812/

[5] Image: http://www.flickr.com/photos/bakerella/2456158414/

[6] Image: http://www.flickr.com/photos/bakerella/2456158334/

[7] Image: http://www.flickr.com/photos/bakerella/2456155464/

[8] Image: http://www.flickr.com/photos/bakerella/2456160724/

[9] Image: http://www.flickr.com/photos/bakerella/2455325463/

[10] Image: http://www.flickr.com/photos/bakerella/2456163388/

[11] Make ‘n Mold Candy Melts: http://www.makenmold.com/Section.aspx?cat=17&sec=69&cmd=local

[12] Mercken’s Candy Coatings: http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fs%3Furl%3Dsearch-alias%253Dgourmet%26field-keywords%3Dmercken%2527s%2Bcoatings%26x%3D0%26y%3D0&tag=bakerella-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=9325

[13] Wilton Candy Melts: http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fs%3Fie%3DUTF8%26rs%3D%26keywords%3DWilton%2520candy%2520melts%26rh%3Di%253Aaps%252Ck%253AWilton%2520candy%2520melts%252Ci%253Agarden&tag=bakerella-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=9325

[14] Alphabet Candy Molds: http://www.cakeartpartystore.com/store/e-StoreOperations_listCategoriesAndProducts.asp?idCategory=75

[15] Sugar Coated Love: http://sugarcoatedlove.com/cupcakes.asp

[16] Image: http://www.flickr.com/photos/bakerella/2455325665/