How to Frost a Daisy Cupcake

Frost a daisy onto a cupcake for a taste of summer.

Daisies are flowers with long thin petals and a circular center. The flower's shape is ideal to decorate a cupcake. To frost a daisy cupcake, start with cooled cupcakes. Use your favorite cupcake recipe from scratch or out of a box and mix up buttercream frosting. Ensure the frosting is thick and creamy to hold its shape and pipe the flowers onto the top of each cupcakes. Buttercream frosting can be made from creamed unsalted butter and powdered sugar. Does this Spark an idea?

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3 cups white buttercream frosting
Yellow food coloring
Small bowl
Spoon
Piping bag
Piping tip 104
12 cooled cupcakes
Piping tip 5

Instructions

- 1
  
  Scoop 1/2 cup of white buttercream frosting into a small bowl. Drop two drops of yellow food coloring. Mix with a spoon to form the yellow frosting. Add more drops to create the desired yellow for the centers of each daisy. Set aside.
- 2
  
  Place the 2 cups of white frosting into a piping bag with a petal tip such as tip 104. It has a long, thin opening that you will use to form the daisy's white petals. Twist the end of the piping bag to press the frosting into the bottom towards the tip. Hold the tip area with your left hand while holding the twisted area with your right hand.
- 3
  
  Dot the center with a short, quick squeeze of white frosting. This will be a guide for your petal making. It will be covered with yellow frosting later.
- 4
  
  Hold your piping bag at a 45 degree angle. Be sure the wider end of the tip is lightly touching the outer edge of the cupcake. Squeeze the bag from the edge of the cake with one long motion to about 1/4-inch from the center. This will give you one petal. Repeat for each petal until you have petals around the entire cupcake in a pinwheel design. Repeat for each cupcake.
- 5
  
  Place the yellow frosting into your cleaned out piping bag with tip 5, which is a rounded tip. You will be adding the yellow centers with this new tip.
- 6
  
  Hold the piping bag at a 90 degree angle to the cupcake. Squeeze out a large dot about 1/2-inch in diameter. Press it down with your index finger to flatten. Repeat for each cupcake.

Tips & Warnings

Decorate each cupcake with about 12 or more petals. Be sure to use one sweeping motion and pull the tip away just before you reach the center.
For a realistic pollen look, sprinkle yellow sprinkled sugar over each center.
The daisies can also be made out of fondant and shaped with cutters.
Be sure to warm up refrigerated frosting on the counter top before piping.