What you need:
Cupcakes (1 per expected guest)
White frosting
Miniature marshmallows ( a handful per cupcake)
Colored sugar (1 or more colors)
Chocolate chips, jelly beans or other embellishments
To me, a spring wedding is one of the loveliest ones you can have. If the wedding is held indoors you arrive in sunlight with a cool breeze. If the wedding is held outdoors you have flowers in bloom and a beautiful sky as your backdrop. Even the most simplistic wedding is fabulous when it’s springtime. If you’re having a spring wedding there are lots of easy ways to tie a floral or other spring theme together. It’s not hard to put some flowers in vases, flowers in the bridal party’s hair, and additional floral or spring accents around the room or yard. Whether you decorate with real or silk flowers it all just seems to shine when it’s a spring wedding.
In keeping with a floral or spring wedding you’ll find it ultra-easy to create luscious cupcakes which look as though a pro has made them. With simple and ordinary things like marshmallows and colored sugar, you’ll create quite a gorgeous display at your wedding reception.
You can make the cupcakes any flavor/color you want. Use a plain boxed mix or choose a favorite recipe. Mix and bake, according to the recipe or package, and allow them to cool completely. Frost all the cupcakes with white frosting.
Use miniature marshmallows to make the flowers for the cupcakes. First, place a bunch of marshmallows on a piece of waxed paper. Arrange them so that they are all standing on one flat end. Fold the waxed paper over the marshmallows then smash them all flat. This is easier than smashing each marshmallow as you need it because you’ll need quite a few, even if you’re not making a huge batch of cupcakes.
Place a cluster of something colorful or contrasting to the white frosting, right in the center of each cupcake. These can be chocolate chips, jelly beans, candy sprinkles or another even a dab of jelly.
Begin arranging the smashed marshmallows around the cluster. Stand each marshmallow up and push it into the frosting at an angle. Make a circle of these around the cluster, then another circle around that one, and so on, until the top of the cupcake is covered with rows of marshmallow petals. Sprinkle colored sugar – various colors or all the same color – on just the marshmallows.
When the cupcakes are all finished you can arrange them in clay pots or another type. Glue a half-ball of Styrofoam to the inside of each pot, push a wooden skewer into a cupcake bottom, then push the skewer into the middle of the Styrofoam. Now arrange more cupcakes around that one using the wooden skewers to hold them. The initial cupcake should stand straight up and down but the ones that go around that one should slant at an angle so that others can see the “flowers.
Your pots of flowers, er, cupcakes will look fabulous on the dessert table at your wedding reception. They’re perfect for an indoor or outdoor reception and ideal for a bride who wants to create a floral touch, here and there, around the reception tables.
Reference:
- See the marshmallow cupcakes here: jbcupcakechallenge.com/view/?s=948
