Spice Drop Bouquets

Name: Spice Drop Bouquets
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 12
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 12 decorative cupcake liners; 12 cupcakes in liners, such as Golden Cupcakes; 1 jumbo Yellow and light green nonpareils (wilton.com); 118 milliliters each yellow, orange, pink and green decorating sugars; 12 each yellow, orange, white and green spice drops; 1 small ziplock bag; 454 grams vanilla frosting; 12 servings 1 flower-shaped cookie cutter; 12 servings Rolling pin; 12 servings Small scissors

Spice Drop Bouquets might be just the side dish you are searching for. This recipe makes 12 servings with 572 calories, 6g of protein, and 17g of fat each. This recipe covers 12% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. If you have rolling pin, scissors, ziplock bag, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. It is a good option if you're following a gluten free, dairy free, and fodmap friendly diet. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes approximately 45 minutes.

Instructions

Press 3 yellow spice drops together.

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Yellow Spice Drops

Sprinkle a work surface with yellow sugar and roll out pressed drops with a rolling pin to about 1/8" thickness. Repeat with remaining drops and sugar, using white drops with pink sugar.

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Sugar

Roll

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Rolling Pin

Add more sugar as needed while rolling to prevent sticking. Using a flower-shaped cookie cutter or small scissors, cut 6 flowers from each set of flattened yellow, orange and white drops, rerolling as necessary. You need up to 72 flowers.

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Orange

Sugar

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Cookie Cutter

Kitchen Scissors

Cut as many 1/2" leaves as possible from flattened green drops. Pinch the end of each leaf to create a stem; set aside.

Spoon 2 Tbsp. vanilla frosting into ziplock bag.

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Vanilla Frosting

Spread remaining frosting on top of cupcakes. Arrange 3 to 6 flowers on top of each cupcake, along with several leaves.

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Cupcakes

Frosting

Spread

Snip a small corner from ziplock bag filled with frosting. Pipe a dot of frosting in the center of each flower and top with a nonpareil.

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Frosting

Place each finished cupcake in a decorative liner and arrange on a serving platter. If desired, dress up platter with remaining spice drop flowers topped with a dot of frosting and a nonpareil.

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Frosting

Cupcakes