{"id":21471,"date":"2022-07-14T09:06:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-14T16:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sugarhero.com\/?p=21471"},"modified":"2024-05-20T16:22:13","modified_gmt":"2024-05-20T23:22:13","slug":"flamingo-cupcakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sugarhero.com\/flamingo-cupcakes\/","title":{"rendered":"Flamingo Cupcakes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Heat up your summer with these cool Flamingo Cupcakes! They’re pink lemonade cupcakes with pink lemonade frosting, and are decorated to look like pink flamingos. Perfect for summer birthdays, pool parties, BBQs, or any fun occasion!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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🦩 Cute Pink Flamingo Cupcakes<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

If there’s one dessert trend I find inexplicable but awesome, it is the rise of flamingo everything. I don’t know quite how it happens—do shadowy representatives from Big Cupcake and Big Macaron and Big Cake get together in a secret cave room hidden in a mountaintop, and decide on quarterly dessert trends? I have no idea, so I’m going to say probably<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mysterious dessert lair or not, somehow we’ve all collectively decided that pink flamingos are cool and trendy instead of kitchy and cheesy, and I am here.for.it! Let’s get our Flamingo Cupcakes on!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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These Flamingo Cupcakes are my attempt to jump on that pink flamingo train, and at the risk of tooting my own horn, I’m kind of obsessed with them! They’re a bit silly looking, with their long, drooping necks (much like the real birds), but their bright pink color and ombre feathered buttercream wings are so whimsical, so cheerful, they make me smile like a goofball whenever I look at them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

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Would it be weird to put a flock of these out on my front lawn? Asking for a friend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

🧾 Ingredients<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

These cupcakes taste like summer, thanks in large part to the vibrant pink lemonade flavor. The cakes are made with real strawberry puree<\/strong>, so they’re moist and a bit denser than your standard vanilla cupcake, and full of tangy strawberry-lemon flavor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The frosting uses freeze-dried strawberries<\/a> to give it a REALLY vibrant fresh strawberry taste that will make you think you’re actually eating a strawberry. If you have trouble getting your hands on freeze-dried strawberries, I’ve included a few suggestions for substitutions in the recipe. Find more tips and tricks for in this recipe for strawberry buttercream<\/a> here!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You will also need pink fondant<\/a>. Buying pink fondant will save you a bit more time, but if you already have white, you can just color it the same color as your buttercream.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

🥄 Equipment<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

You don’t need much in the way of specialty equipment to make these flamingo cupcakes at home! All you need to pipe the flamingos are piping bags<\/a>, a coupler<\/a> (this is also used to make the flamingo body!), and a #352 leaf tip<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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📋 Procedure<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The decorating falls into two stages: the fondant flamingo heads, and the piped buttercream flamingo bodies. (And yes, I’ve got your back with a video tutorial! Scroll down to watch my hands work this magic.) Neither step is too hard, but the heads will need some time to dry, so you need to prepare a few days in advance for this project, otherwise you’ll have SERIOUSLY droopy flamingos. Not cute!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The fondant flamingo heads are shaped, skewered with toothpicks, and left to dry until firm. Once dry, you just dip them into white candy coating, then chocolate candy coating, and dab an eye on there—easy!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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💡 Tips and Substitutions<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

If you want to use a cake mix<\/strong> instead of going homemade, I recommend buying a strawberry cake mix<\/strong>, and adding the zest of 1 lemon and 1-2 tsp lemon extract, to taste, until you get a nice pink lemonade flavor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The fondant heads will need at least 24-48 hours to dry<\/strong> before adding the final decorating touches and putting them on the cupcakes. (The exact time depends on your fondant, humidity, etc). You can speed up this process by kneading in some gum paste<\/a> or CMC powder<\/a> to the fondant before you shape the heads—this helps fondant dry faster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Don’t have candy melts<\/strong>? No worries! Melted white chocolate chips and dark chocolate chips are a fine substitute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

💖More Fun Cupcake Recipes:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n