Fancy Flours: Where Bakers Bloom

Too cute for words!!! These safari cupcakes are really, really cute and very easy to make.
To create these cupcakes, you will need :
Food colors: Green  Ivory,  Blue, and Brown (http://www.fancyflours.com/site/xdpy/sf/Ingredients/Food%20Color/index.html)
Sugar Jungle Animals (http://www.fancyflours.com/sugar-jungle-animals.html)
Decorating tips Plain Round #10 and #5

Make your favorite cupcake recipe and buttercream icing. You will need two batches of the cupcake icing–one tinted green for the base icing on the cupcakes. The second batch of icing will be used to create the animal bodies and grasses.
Ice cupcakes with green icing, pipe on teardrop shapes for body arms and legs of Elephant, Lion, Monkey and Zebra. Finish with sugar decorations. For a really cool touch, try using these cool leopard print muffin cups (http://www.fancyflours.com/muffin-cup-leopard.html)

Valentine’s Day has always been a great excuse for me to bake–it’s the perfect holiday to help overcome sugar withdrawal from Christmas! One of our talented store staff put this charming bouquet together from a collection of random decorated cookies we had in the shop. The best touch, I thought, was the use of the?edible pink and red sugar pearls in the vase for an extra punch of color. Hope this inspires you!