My son’s preschool class asked us parents to sign up to bring a dish for Teacher’s Appreciation Day so I made these potted flower cupcakes to honor the men and women who teach and take care of our children day in and day out. 
But these cupcakes would also be perfect for Mother’s Day or a special birthday! I made an assortment of flowers with buttercream icing and chocolate melts.
To start with you’ll need these silicon flower pot baking molds. I got mine at Michael’s but you can also do a quick search on Amazon and buy them online. Preheat your oven to 350 degrees and make your favorite chocolate cupcakes. You can use my chocolate cake recipe here or use a box cake mix. Use an ice cream scoop to evenly distribute the batter into the baking molds then insert each mold into the cavity of cupcake baking tins. 
Bake them for 21 minutes. When they’re done they really so look like soil in a pot. 
While they’re cooling make your buttercream frosting. I use https://www.wilton.com/buttercream-frosting/WLRECIP-41.html Wilton’s Buttercream Icing Recipe because it’s so easy to pipe with. I would make double. Next tint your icing with food coloring to make your flower assortment- just make sure you tint about 1/4 of your icing green for grass and leaves. I used a grass tip to pipe grass onto the cupcakes I wanted to top with flowers. 
To pipe easy and gorgeous roses and tulips I’d recommend buying Russian Tips- you can get them on Amazon. Here’s what the grass tip (right) and Russian tip (left) look like. 
I also combined colors in the same piping bag and used a star tip to make hydrangeas . You do this by spreading two or three colors on a piece of saran wrap and inserting into a piping bag with a star-tip. 
For more pictures and a tutorial on hydrangeas click here . For the last flower- I melted pink chocolate melts in a microwave safe bowl and then used plastic spoons to make tulip molds and froze them for ten minutes. 
Once they’re frozen they pop out super easy to make tulip leaves. Press them into the cupcake to make a tulip flower like this. 
Please leave a comment and let me know how yours turned out!
