Description
Decorated Pumpkin Cupcakes are a festive fall treat featuring your favorite cupcake base adorned with vibrant orange and green buttercream. Using gel paste colors, the cupcakes are beautifully designed to resemble pumpkins with swirled orange frosting and piped green leaves, perfect for autumn celebrations or Halloween.
Ingredients
Cupcakes
- Your favorite cupcake recipe (quantity as desired)
Buttercream Frosting
- Vanilla buttercream (about 6 cups total)
- Americolor Soft Gel Paste Electric Orange (for orange frosting)
- Americolor Soft Gel Paste Avocado (for green leaves)
Instructions
- Divide and color buttercream: Separate your vanilla buttercream into two bowls—about one cup for the pumpkin leaves and approximately five cups for the pumpkin swirl. Add Americolor Soft Gel Paste Avocado to the smaller portion in drops, stirring continually until you achieve the desired green color for the leaves. To the larger portion, add Americolor Soft Gel Paste Electric Orange gradually, mixing well until a vibrant pumpkin orange hue is obtained.
- Pipe pumpkin swirls: Fit a pastry bag with a 1M open star decorating tip and fill it with the orange-colored buttercream. Pipe a rose swirl onto each cupcake by starting from the center and spiraling outwards, creating a raised, rounded pumpkin shape. Refer to the ‘How To Frost A Rose Cupcake’ video tutorial for detailed technique guidance. Continue until all cupcakes are frosted with the pumpkin swirl.
- Add pumpkin leaves: Fit another pastry bag with a #65 leaf decorating tip and fill it with the green buttercream. Apply even pressure while piping the leaves: begin at the base of the leaf, move the tip away gently while gradually releasing pressure to taper the leaf’s end. Pipe a couple of leaves onto each cupcake around the pumpkin swirl to finish the decoration. Repeat this for all cupcakes.
- Serve and enjoy: Once all cupcakes are decorated with the pumpkin swirls and leaves, serve immediately or store appropriately until ready to enjoy your festive fall treats.
Notes
- These decorated cupcakes bring the cozy, seasonal charm of a pumpkin patch right to your dessert table.
- Use gel paste colors gradually to avoid overly intense coloring and to get the perfect shade.
- The 1M star tip and #65 leaf tip are key to achieving professional-looking swirls and leaves.
- Video tutorials can significantly help beginners master the rose swirl technique.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 cupcake
- Calories: 320
- Sugar: 30g
- Sodium: 150mg
- Fat: 18g
- Saturated Fat: 10g
- Unsaturated Fat: 6g
- Trans Fat: 0.2g
- Carbohydrates: 40g
- Fiber: 1g
- Protein: 3g
- Cholesterol: 50mg
