Celebrate Kansas Day with some Sunflower Cupcakes.
Roll frosted cupcakes in a chocolaty cereal (leave a little space around the edge of the cupcake for the petals), pipe on some petals with a star tip and then very carefully decorate a red M&M to look like a lady bug. To make clean-up easier I attach my decorating tip to the corner of a ziploc bag. For the ladybug I cut the tiniest tip off the corner of the bag. I used a little melted chocolate almond bark for the ladybug details, but frosting would work also. Cupcakes adapted from Ladies Home Journal.
You can see last years celebration cake here along with links to Kansas coloring pages.
Have a happy day!
January 29, 2008 at 11:18 am |
Those are so adorable! (my state’s birthday is Valentine’s day, so sadly, we don’t get any cute state related (a beaver? a douglasfir? a salmon?) cupcakes! waaa
January 29, 2008 at 11:52 am |
i had to make sugar cookies for griffin yesterday because today in class they decorated them like sunflowers.
of course, griffin’s teacher decided to give him one with wheat to decorate anyway. ::banging head on table::
January 29, 2008 at 11:53 am |
Wow. Wow. Those are awesome.
January 29, 2008 at 12:29 pm |
Those sunflower cupcakes are phenomenal. Even without the extra decorative touches they take the CAKE! Did you use almond bark because it gets harder or because it is easier to work with? Just wondering.
January 29, 2008 at 12:37 pm |
Those are beautiful and give me ideas for Maryland’s birthday as we have the black-eyed Susan as a flower….yummy!
January 29, 2008 at 1:14 pm |
You never fail to impress and astound. Happy Kansas Day, my friend!
January 29, 2008 at 2:16 pm |
so cheerful! happy Kansas Day!
January 29, 2008 at 2:32 pm |
You are amazing. That ladybug makes me smile, and when I think that you made it out of an M&M, it cracks me up. So great.
January 30, 2008 at 10:00 pm |
Love them! You never cease to amaze me!
January 31, 2008 at 11:51 am |
Hi….I am directed here from Whip-up…..where your paper marbling tutorial is posted. I am an art teacher who used the same idea for years until the Vano liquid starch formula was changed. The addition of borax made the starch unusable…..it just did not work any more. Could you tell me what brand your use? Thank you.
Susan
February 3, 2008 at 6:22 am |
Just darling! And yummy looking too!
February 24, 2008 at 6:03 pm |
I didn’t realize you were a fellow Kansan! Here is my post this year http://praiseworthythings.blogspot.com/2008/01/happy-kansas-day.html. I’m definitely going to try these cupcakes AND the twinkie cake in the future. Thanks!
March 3, 2008 at 6:09 pm |
How cute are these! I am so going to have to make some!