Name: Spring Flower Cupcakes
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 35 min
Total time: 1 h 5 min
Ingredients: 12 2.5-inch (6-cm) in diameter small terracotta pots; 12 strips of parchment paper about 6-inch (15-cm) in length and same width as the diameter of the bottom of the pot, about 1 1/4-inch (3-cm); 1 unbaked vanilla or chocolate cupcakes recipe; 1 vanilla buttercream or frosting recipe; 1/4 cup (60 ml) Oreo © cookie crumbs; Food colouring, colours of your choice; 12 small lollipops (colours of your choice); 24 fresh mint leaves

Ingredients

- 12 2.5-inch (6-cm) in diameter small terracotta pots
- 12 strips of parchment paper about 6-inch (15-cm) in length and same width as the diameter of the bottom of the pot, about 1 1/4-inch (3-cm)
- 1 unbaked vanilla or chocolate cupcakes recipe
- 1 vanilla buttercream or frosting recipe
- 1/4 cup (60 ml) Oreo © cookie crumbs
- Food colouring, colours of your choice
- 12 small lollipops (colours of your choice)
- 24 fresh mint leaves

Preparation

- With the rack in the middle position, preheat the oven to 180 °C (350 °F). Line each pot with a strip of parchment paper that hangs over each sides of the pot to facilitate unmoulding, and then drop a cupcake liner in the pot. Place the pots on a baking sheet.
- Scoop the batter in the pots, three quarters of the way. Bake for approximately 35 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the centre of cake comes out clean. Let cool. Unmould and cool completely on a rack. Remove the strips of parchment paper and put the cupcakes back in the pots.
- Set aside about 125 ml (1/2 cup) buttercream. Using a pastry bag fitted with a plain tip, frost the cupcakes with the remaining buttercream. Sprinkle with cookie crumbs to resemble dirt. Set aside.
- Colour the reserved buttercream. Using a pastry bag fitted with a flat tip (Ateco # 65 or # 70), form the petals of the flowers on each side of the lollipops starting a few millimeters inside the rim and exceeding outside. Insert a lollipop in each pot and decorate the base of the stem with two mint leaves.

Spring Flower Cupcakes

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