Spring Cupcakes

Spring cupcakes are festively decorated cupcakes made to resemble the many elements of the season of spring. Any flavor of cupcake may be used but vanilla cupcakes are most common. Spring cupcakes can be decorated with flowers, butterflies, baby birds, or just decorated in spring colors like pastel yellow, blue or green. You can use anything that has to do with spring as an idea for your spring cupcakes. These cupcakes are great for Easter parties, bake sales, or school activities. The icing and other candies can be used to make many different spring designs for your spring cupcakes.

Icing is usually in pastel colors such as light greens, blues, yellows, pinks and oranges. Decorations can include flowers, bees, ladybugs, butterflies and other spring related themes. Candy can be used to create flowers or butterflies. Jelly beans, M & M's, pastel colored candy corn, or colored marshmallows are just a few of the candies that can be used to make creative spring cupcakes.

You can make a flower cupcake by using a lollipop. Bake your cupcakes and let them cool. Ice the top with white icing. Add green colored sugar or green sprinkles to the top so that it looks like grass. Stick two or three unwrapped lollipops in the top of the cupcake. You can stick them in at different levels to give it the appearance of different sized flowers. Use a green candy that can be molded to create leaves to place at the bottom of the flowers. The leaves can be created with Airheads, gumdrops, jelly beans, or any other candy that can be molded into another shape. Be sure and wash your hands or use gloves before molding the candy leaves. Remove the wrappers from the lollipops before serving. You can also use different colored lollipops to make the flowers different colors.http://www.easycupcakes.com/category/spring-cupcakes/