Fall Mum Cupcakes

One of my first unplanned ventures in PA was a little town called Voliant. It's in a largely Amish community and has all sorts of crafts and specialities shops. When my parents first came up to visit, we toured through Voliant's Fall pumpkin festival and this past weekend we returned with Noah's parents. There is an amazing little kitchen shop there where I decided to sign up for some cooking classes at and while there I spotted the cutest flower cupcakes so I decided to recreate my own version of them. So in honor of the beautiful fall weather and colors up here in PA, here is my how-to on my "Mum" cupcakes:

You'll need:  Cupcakes, icing, marshmallows, a knife, sprinkles or icing color spray.

While cupcakes are baking, cut marshmallows diagonally in two.

I baked Duncan Hines confetti cupcakes

Ice cupcakes as usual, I mixed in sprinkles with my icing (just because I love sprinkles)

After cupcakes are iced, begin placing the marshmallow halves along the outer edges

Then begin moving inward and placing the marshmallows till the whole cupcake is filled

Ta-da! The cupcake should now resemble a flower

I used a color mist spray for the first mum to get the orange dye color

Instead of dye you can also use sprinkles, which stick well to the exposed sticky marshmallow

And since presentation is everything, I bought a cute fall box at Wal-Mart to sit the cupcakes in

I made one box of mums and one box with just regular cupcakes

(incase someone doesn't like marshmallows)

I used cute little pumpkin toothpicks to top those off

Those are my mum cupcakes! Hope you enjoyed!