Using tropical flowers to decorate cupcakes
One of the fun things about cupcakes is that they can be varied endlessly buy using different fillings, frostings and decorations. A fun way to make cupcakes a bit more fun and give them a little more pizzazz is to decorate them using tropical flowers. It doesn’t matter if it’s a birthday celebration or simply a gray Sunday morning in November tropical flowers on your plate is sure to brighten up your day.
Using fresh flowers on cupcakes
Here is a easy step by step guide flowers on cupcakes. If you are serving the cupcakes to children under the age of 3, you may wish to remove the vase once the child has started eating to avoid the risk of choking.
1.) Make sure your flowers are not poisonous and aren’t sprayed with pesticids.
2.) Buy the flowers you are going to use in flower shop or pick them in your own garden. Make sure that the flowers are non-treated and tell the vendor that you are going to use them in food.
3.) Cut the flowers off the stems, but leave about 1 in or 2.5 cm of stem.
4.) Clean the flowers using cold water. Be careful not to damage them.
5.) Place the flowers on a towel and leave them to dry.
6.) When the water (from washing them) has dried of the flowers you carefully put them in plastic bags and put them in the freezer.
7.) When its time for you to serve your cupcakes, cut a drinking straw into 3 in or 7.5 cm pieces.
8.) Close the bottom of the straws by bending them and using tape to fixate them in that position.
9.) Insert the “vases” you just made into the cupcake after having filled them with waters.
10.) Take the flowers out of the freezer and place them in their vases.
11.) Serve your beautiful cupcakes!
How to make candied flowers
Candied tropical flowers are surprisingly easy to make at home, but you may need to practise once or twice in advance to get a hang of it. Candied flowers are destined to bring in the ovations when placed on top of a cupcake especially if you match the flower with the frosting. Always make sure that the flowers you use have not been sprayed with pesticides and that they don’t belong to a toxic species.
1.) Line a baking sheet with baking parchment paper. The papper need to be dry!
2.) Whisk or beat one egg white untill you have a light foam.
3.) Lightly cover the flower with egg white. Using a small, clean paintbrush is usually the easiest way.
4.) Sprinkle the flower with suger.
5.) Wait for the suger to be absorbed by the egg white and then sprinkle it again.
6.) Place the flower on the parchment paper.
7.) Repeat step 3 to 6 until all the flowers are ready and lined up on the baking sheet.
Dry the flower in room temperature for 24 hours.
