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Flower Cupcakes
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Celebrate spring with a batch of these delightful cupcakes. Arrange in a platter on a bed of grass green-tinted coconut.

Makes 12 (1 cupcake) servings.

Prep Time: 30 minutes

INGREDIENTS

24 small flower-shaped or round cookies
1/4 cup white chocolate chips
24 thin pretzel sticks
1 container (16 ounces) vanilla frosting
McCormick® Assorted Food Colors and Egg Dye
McCormick® Assorted NEON! Food Colors and Egg Dye
1 1/2 cups flaked coconut
12 unfrosted cupcakes
24 pieces candy-coated chocolates (M&M's)
12 green gumdrop spearmint leaves

DIRECTIONS

1. Place cookies, flat-side up, on a tray. Microwave white chocolate chips in small microwavable bowl on HIGH 30 seconds or just until melted. Stir until completely melted and smooth. Spoon into small resealable plastic bag. Snip a small corner from bag. Pipe a dot of white chocolate on edge of each cookie. Place pretzel stick on dot of chocolate to form the stem of the flower. Pipe a second dot of chocolate on pretzel stick above the first dot. Refrigerate 5 minutes or until chocolate is set.

 

2. Meanwhile, tint 1 1/4 cups of the frosting grass green, using 9 drops yellow Food Color and 5 drops green Food Color. Divide remaining frosting into 3 small bowls. Tint each bowl a different color with: 5 drops yellow Food Color, 3 drops NEON blue Food Color, 3 drops red Food Color. Spoon each color frosting into separate small resealable plastic bags. Place coconut in resealable plastic bag. Add 5 drops green and 9 drops yellow Food Color to coconut in bag; shake until coconut is evenly tinted.

 

3. Spread top of each cupcake with grass green frosting. Roll the edge of each cupcake in tinted coconut.

 

4. Snip a very small corner from each bag of tinted frosting. Pipe frosting over the cookies in a flower design. Add a candy-coated chocolate to the center of each flower. Insert 2 cookie flowers into each cupcake at different heights. Cut the gumdrop leaves in half lengthwise. Insert the leaves into the cupcakes at the base of each flower.

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