Flower Patch Cupcakes {for Mother's Day}

Flower Patch Cupcakes {for Mother’s Day}

It’s day #3 of Mother’s Day prep week. How’s it going? Are you ready??

Here’s another delicious and simple treat idea which requires very little baking/cake decorating expertise. {but you will need a crew of little helpers who can color inside the lines}

Flower Patch Cupcakes:

What? You don’t like to eat your cupcakes off of the ground? Just me?

Ok, so easy. So cute.

Ready? Here we go…

Prep Work:

*bake cupcakes

*buy or prepare frosting

*crush chocolate cookies (oreos and chocolate goldfish work well)

Scoop about 1 tablespoon of frosting onto your cupcakes and press each one into a bowl of the crushed cookies. Like so:

Cut out and color these printable flowers {this is when little helping hands are especially useful}:

click to enlarge and print

Image source: http://prek-8.com/coloring/images/learn27.jpg

Tape each flower to a toothpick and insert into the top of the cupcake:

{excuse my boring white flowers}

All done! Unless you’d like to go the extra mile and really wow Mom. You do? Well, I found a few cutesy ‘flower’ sayings that would be awfully cute in a Mother’s Day card– I thought I’d share:

“If Moms were flowers, I’d pick you!”

“For thee, the earth puts forth sweet flowers.”

“If I had a flower for every reason I love you, I would walk forever in my garden”

{And don’t forget it’s Teacher Appreciation Week. These would work for a special teacher– “If TEACHERS were flowers, I’d pick you!”}