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DIY: House Plant Cupcakes

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As I mentioned on Wednesday, I took inspiration from a recent gardening project to make a variety of house plant cupcakes. And it resulted in a whole bunch of cacti cupcake cuteness! Click below to check out a tutorial for these delectable edible house plants.
houseplant tutorial click here

Materials Needed:

  • A batch of pre-baked cupcakes
  • Frosting
  • Graham Crackers or Teddy Grahams®
  • Icing dye: Green, Yellow, Red
  • Fondant
  • Pastry bag
  • Icing tips: #352, #21, #102 (roses)

DIRECTIONS:

FOR THE CUPCAKE BASE:

houseplantcupcakediyStep #1: Bake your cupcakes. In an effort to not too realistically portray potted house plants, I decided to leave the liners on the cupcakes (instead of covering them in a clay fondant pot).These unbleached liners are great when going for a natural look.

Step #2: Once your cupcakes are baked, add some icing into a bowl and add green dye – I used the Wilton “Moss Green” dye for mine. As you can see from the photo, just a little dye is needed.

Step #3: Now for this step most people use graham crackers, but I love the honey flavor Teddy Grahams because they’re a bit lighter in color, which makes the dirt look more like sand (the look I was going for with these house plants). Process the teddy grahams in a food processor until semi-fine and transfer them to a bowl.

Step #4: Ice your cupcake and then dip it face-down into the bowl of processed grahams, making sure to completely cover your cupcake. Now, you have your base for all of your house plants. And, make sure to save your extra icing, because you’ll need it later!!

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Now, once you have your cupcakes iced and covered in “sand” you’ll be able to jump around the next sections, dependent on which plants you want to make.

FOR THE RIBBED CACTI CUPCAKES: 

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Step #1: For both of the ribbed cactus plants, you’ll want to make the cactus base with fondant. First, add your green dye to the fondant and work it a bit to blend. Make sure your surface (and your rolling pin!) is sprinkled with either confectioners sugar or corn starch to avoid the fondant from sticking.

Note: For any unused fondant, make sure to always cover your fondant in plastic, as it will dry out very quickly.

Step #2: For the taller cacti, I took one of my unfrosted cupcakes and cut out a rectangular shape of cake, which I then covered with fondant. For the smaller, round cacti, I just used a small ball of fondant for my base. Whichever style you’re going with, make sure to apply a bit of icing under your cactus, to keep it sturdy. For the taller cactus, I used a toothpick for extra stability.

Step #3: For this step, you’ll need icing tip #352 (typically for leaves). Using a pastry bag with your tip, add your leftover green icing and working with the tip parallel to the cactus, work in a linear pattern up towards the top of your cactus. Once you finish one line, you’ll want to make your next line immediately next to it, so that there aren’t any gaps in between the lines.

Step #4: Once you’ve made all your lines, you’re about set, but since you worked toward the top-center of your cactus, you’ll want to add a flower here. For this step, I don’t have photos because I had previously made a bunch of these roses for another cake I was working on, but there are amazing YouTube tutorials HERE and HERE that will show you exactly what to do. Once you have your flower, add it to the top of your cactus plant. You’ll need a piped pastry bag with either yellow or red buttercream icing to make them.

And for the cupcake with the leaves and the rose, I just molded those leaves out of the fondant.

ribbed cacti

FOR THE LEAFY PLANT CUPCAKE:

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Genius name, right?! I am no botanist, so apologies for the lack of proper verbiage here, but I thought leafy plants did it some justice.

Step #1: You may need to make some more icing if you’ve already used your leftovers. If so, do it up!

Step #2: Add your green icing to the pastry bag, using icing tip #21. Add a base of icing in a circular pattern – going up about 1.5 – 2″ from the center of your cupcake, dependent on your desired plant height. Once you’ve added your base icing, test out the tip a bit on a plate so you can see the pattern that comes out. You’ll notice that if your icing isn’t chill enough, it’ll be a bit runny.

Step #3: I made the other leafy cupcake (pictured in the photos at the beginning of the post) with less chilly icing, but for the plant pictured right above, you’ll want your icing to be very chill, so it’s a bit harder of a consistency. Remove the tip and refrigerate the bag of icing for 20-30 minutes to get this desired consistency. Step your cupcake with the icing base on it in the fridge as well, to allow it to harden.

Step #4: Pull your icing bag out of the fridge and working outwards, add your spiky leaves. There’s no great way to show this, you’ll just have to play around and become comfortable with how the icing tip and the icing work together. It may not be super easy, but don’t worry, you’ll be able to figure it out with a bit of practice! Just remember, if you want longer leaves, you’ll need the icing to be fresh out of the fridge and chill.
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FOR THE SUCCULENT CUPCAKE:

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For the succulent plant, I followed THIS awesome tutorial from Pixel Whisk. Basic steps are below.

Step #1: Just as directed with the ribbed cacti cupcakes, you’ll want to add green dye to fondant and work it to blend. Again, make sure your surface (and your rolling pin!) is sprinkled with either confectioners sugar or corn starch to avoid the fondant from sticking.

Step #2: Roll out your fondant so it’s about 1/8″ thick. Using these 3 various-sized flower cookie cutters, cut out different sizes of flowers. You can just do 1 of each or up to 2 of each size. 

Step #3: Once you have your flowers, pinch the corners to achieve the succulent leaf look. I’m sure there are better cookie cutters for this out there, but these are all I had on-hand at the time, which were easy to turn into succulent leaves with just the pinch of a finger. Once you’ve pinched the tips, place the flower molds into mini cupcake tins and let them sit out for a couple of hours uncovered to dry a bit in that shape.

Step #4: Take a small ball of fondant and make a few mini leaves for your center. I find it’s easiest to just mold these leaves by hand. I made 3 small leaves to wrap around my ball and then added 4 more leaves, just a little larger around my base to make up the center of the succulent.

Once you have your center, you’ll want to just stack your flowers by size. Use a bit of water in between each layer to stick the fondant layers to each other.

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And now you have yourself some house plant cupcakes! How great would these be for a house warming party!?

  1. Jenny Holiday

    June 29, 2013 at 12:19 am

    These are just so so so FUN!! 🙂
    xo

    1. alanajonesmann

      July 3, 2013 at 11:42 am

      thanks so much! xx

  2. foodnerd4life

    July 4, 2013 at 4:44 am

    These look so cool! I really want to make them this weekend 🙂

    FoodNerdx

  3. Em

    July 4, 2013 at 11:49 am

    these are adorable but i would never in a million years be able to make them myself

    1. alanajonesmann

      July 7, 2013 at 6:49 pm

      i think you could!

  4. Julie Tucker-Wolek

    July 5, 2013 at 10:22 pm

    Fabulous!!! Pinning these!!

  5. knitanything

    July 6, 2013 at 9:59 am

    Brilliant tutorial – so unique! Also wanted to say it’s great to visit a blog that doesn’t take forever to load!

    1. alanajonesmann

      July 7, 2013 at 6:48 pm

      well, that’s good to hear because i was thinking just the other day that it was taking too long to load! ha

  6. The Cake Tart

    July 7, 2013 at 3:39 am

    These are amazing! They’ve given me some great ideas, a mexican themed party being the first! Thanks for sharing.
    Amber

    1. alanajonesmann

      July 7, 2013 at 6:47 pm

      makes my day hearing that! thanks so much!

  7. krista winters

    July 12, 2013 at 8:00 pm

    These are incredible! I love them!

  8. Harpy Art

    July 16, 2013 at 12:04 am

    Good work on the write-up/how-to. Creative concept and beautiful end product! I’m planning to employ your techniques on a cake for my girlfriend (succulent garden cake!). Had you ever considered using with marzipan instead of fondant? I’m vegetarian so the gelatin in fondant is a turn off. Considering coloring/sculpting it in the same fashion!

    1. alanajonesmann

      July 16, 2013 at 8:31 am

      I don’t have too much experience with marzipan, but modeling chocolate would also do the trick!

  9. cococakecupcakes

    July 16, 2013 at 4:51 pm

    these are the CUTEST CUPCAKES. fantastic idea, gorgeous photos and great tutorial! thanks for sharing, alana!

  10. Holly

    July 17, 2013 at 9:42 am

    These are incredible!!

    1. alanajonesmann

      July 17, 2013 at 1:52 pm

      thanks so much!! xx

  11. Alycia

    July 18, 2013 at 8:38 pm

    these are amazing and beautiful!! i’ve never seen anything like that before. 🙂

  12. Sara Zimbelman

    July 18, 2013 at 11:26 pm

    Your idea was adorable and appropriate for my green thumb friends

  13. Mollie

    July 22, 2013 at 1:31 pm

    Whoa, these are totally gorgeous and your pictures are so great. It looks like it took hours to make these and the post..how did you get such pretty, consistent lighting???

    1. alanajonesmann

      March 13, 2014 at 12:29 pm

      just shot them on a table next to my kitchen window in the afternoon, so the lighting wasn’t too harsh. lighting is always tricky though!

  14. Jennifer Holleyman

    August 21, 2013 at 5:46 am

    Love the idea and the post…thanks!

  15. The Sill

    September 3, 2013 at 1:02 pm

    Absolutely obsessed! Hope you don’t mind if we share this!
    xx, http://www.thesill.com

    1. alanajonesmann

      September 4, 2013 at 5:11 pm

      not at all! appreciate it! thanks so much!

  16. Dominique Paolini

    September 4, 2013 at 9:40 am

    These are great. Thinking Cinco de Mayo party.

    1. alanajonesmann

      March 13, 2014 at 12:28 pm

      i have some fun pinata cupcakes too that you can see here: http://alanajonesmann.com/2013/05/diy-pinata-cupcakes/ and if fondant/modeling chocolate isn’t your thing, use airhead candies or laffy taffy for the fringe topping!

  17. Jennifer B.

    September 18, 2013 at 3:39 pm

    Wow…what a beautiful job you did!

  18. Margaret

    September 18, 2013 at 10:55 pm

    Awestruck!

  19. Hope

    September 19, 2013 at 12:59 pm

    I’m in awe!! Love these!

  20. Brenda Senseney

    October 13, 2013 at 10:24 pm

    Live in New Mexico the southwest and just loved the creativity of the cupcakes, will try to duplicate them .

  21. Gastronomadas MX

    December 24, 2013 at 3:26 pm

    awesome work, =) I wanna eat these cupcakes

  22. boschka

    January 15, 2014 at 1:04 pm

    Beautiful !! Thank you !! 🙂

  23. michelle

    February 18, 2014 at 2:08 am

    looks wonderful…….

  24. Sharon Lucchesi

    February 27, 2014 at 7:43 pm

    How did you make the one in the back the conophytum? Looks like the real deal!

    1. alanajonesmann

      March 13, 2014 at 12:30 pm

      check out the comments below – included a little instruction for that one!

  25. Erna du Toit

    March 1, 2014 at 6:58 am

    This is absolutely extraordinarily beautiful! Alana, you are a master! I would never be able to eat it though. They are just too gorgeous. Congratulations on something totally unique and super special!

    1. alanajonesmann

      March 13, 2014 at 12:26 pm

      that is so very kind! thank you!! xx

  26. Vivian

    March 1, 2014 at 10:52 pm

    This is such a clever idea. Those cupcakes are adorable.

  27. eileensideways

    March 3, 2014 at 8:27 pm

    those are so flippin adorable!

  28. Justine

    March 5, 2014 at 7:01 am

    Really nice, love it !

  29. Henrique

    March 5, 2014 at 1:48 pm

    It is a shame you are not in London… I would definitely order some. Fantastic cupcakes!

  30. bonnieeng

    March 5, 2014 at 6:16 pm

    These are so clever! You’ve done such a beautiful job! Thanks for sharing!!!

  31. Cindy @ Elgin Harvest

    March 5, 2014 at 11:44 pm

    If you’re wondering where all the hits are coming from, your cupcakes were shared on reddit. They look fantastic and I don’t even like cupcakes!

  32. Cacica Iyansá

    March 7, 2014 at 8:27 pm

    Now these look like they are pretty easy to make and look great, I bet they would take great if you made them with devils food cake, it would kind of taste like a s’more, chocolate, graham crackers and the marshmallow fondant.

  33. Diana Walker

    March 7, 2014 at 9:40 pm

    So cute, and they look like so much fun to make.

  34. linda karosic

    March 7, 2014 at 11:15 pm

    They look delightful!

  35. arlene

    March 8, 2014 at 1:39 am

    absolutely adorable

  36. Gary

    March 8, 2014 at 2:19 am

    You did GOOOOOOD!!!! I’m wondering on the first one if you could make the core a carved piece of cake or rice crispy treat formed. I don’t really care for fondant, much less that much of it, but not sure if anything else would work as well. Thank you for the ideas; my brain is racing thinking of when I can make some…lol Thank you!

    1. alanajonesmann

      March 13, 2014 at 12:25 pm

      rice krispie treat would totally work as well!

  37. Michelle

    March 8, 2014 at 5:36 am

    Seriously Awesome!! These baked in small terra cotta pots would be to die for!!

  38. Nellie Van Huet Brissette

    March 8, 2014 at 6:42 am

    what a great idea my Dad would have loved these since he grew cacti

    1. Jenn Crockett

      March 9, 2014 at 5:52 pm

      My Mom loved succulents too!
      @ Allana, such beautiful work!!

  39. Mary Ann McCaffery

    March 8, 2014 at 3:21 pm

    These are beautiful!

  40. Debra

    March 8, 2014 at 7:28 pm

    You did a wonderful job! I want to try them too.Thank you so much for your directions, they are very simple to follow. I hope you will so more of these projects. Again, Thank you, very much!

    1. alanajonesmann

      March 13, 2014 at 12:24 pm

      thank YOU for checking them out! really means a lot!

  41. melissa henley

    March 9, 2014 at 12:35 am

    What a great way to think out of the box .It is wonderful .

  42. missgustos

    March 10, 2014 at 8:12 am

    I love it!!!! Congrats for your post!! It’s amazing!
    The cactus I have at home always die, at least I can eat those!
    : D

  43. Nana

    March 10, 2014 at 9:47 am

    wow! amazing work. makes me think about some cacti I killed some years ago *g* maybe I should make my own, they won’t die 😀

  44. Lu Ann

    March 11, 2014 at 10:04 am

    Simply amazing. I might have to make my own succulent cupcakes for my birthday. You’re a rock star!

    1. alanajonesmann

      March 13, 2014 at 12:23 pm

      awww thanks so much!

  45. Ashley Polonowski

    March 11, 2014 at 3:36 pm

    Could you do a tutorial on the cute one with the white dots in back? And do you think cake pops or mini cake pops would work as a substitute for the fondant balls?

    1. alanajonesmann

      March 13, 2014 at 12:23 pm

      it’s practically impossible to show how to do that icing technique in a photo. basically you want to pipe small dollops of buttercream with an open star tip onto wax paper (before assembling them onto your cupcake). Before the buttercream sets, add 2 white sprinkles to the center of each one and then place them in the fridge to set. Assemble a cupcake similar to the tall cacti and then add a layer of buttercream icing and position your little dollops before the buttercream sets. hope that helps! xx

  46. Sylvie

    March 13, 2014 at 12:13 pm

    It’s just amazing, congrats !! C’est magnifique, bravo 🙂

    1. alanajonesmann

      March 13, 2014 at 12:15 pm

      thank you so much!

  47. monaco

    March 14, 2014 at 5:55 pm

    Juste tres beau et presque dommage de les manger! Vous etes une artiste ! Bravo.

  48. Kailani

    March 17, 2014 at 2:54 am

    These are adorable!

  49. kittengirlclub

    March 19, 2014 at 7:04 pm

    Omg! This is incredible! The most adorable food I have ever seen!
    http://kittengirlclub.com/

  50. Isabelle

    March 20, 2014 at 3:15 am

    This is so cute!! <3

  51. Mafalda

    March 20, 2014 at 3:47 am

    One word: amazing!
    Mafalda ❤
    http://mafaldadotzero.blogspot

    1. alanajonesmann

      March 20, 2014 at 4:44 pm

      thanks so much!

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  53. Chene

    March 24, 2014 at 6:25 pm

    Awesome! Thank you!

  54. connie chartier

    April 5, 2014 at 9:48 am

    My daughter just sent me this link! I belong to a garden club and can not wait until the next meeting to present these to the group. Thank you so much.

  55. lucky

    April 6, 2014 at 2:40 am

    excellent,awesome

  56. k. venkata ramana murthy

    April 6, 2014 at 8:24 am

    i have seen many preparation on your web site really-it is one of art for eating people generally present generation youngsters-like your Delicious new choice food . actually i would like see you.

  57. Lola

    April 11, 2014 at 3:25 pm

    wish me luck! I’m going to try to make these for my daughter baby shower. She’s having her party at a succulent garden. If they come out even have as adorable as your I will be thrilled.

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    April 18, 2014 at 5:43 am

    Wow! what a fantastic idea , I loved it, thanks for your sharing.

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  77. ana bertha valencia sanchez

    June 16, 2014 at 10:18 am

    hola! hoy abri

    esta pagina y quede fascinada me encantaron los cup cakes

    decorados como cactus¡ también preparo algunos. pero estos me fascinaron!!!!!
    felicidades¡¡¡¡¡¡

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  83. Justyna

    July 25, 2014 at 1:17 am

    wow!! it’s soooo cool ! great job 🙂

    1. alanajonesmann

      July 30, 2014 at 10:32 am

      thank you so much!

  84. April

    August 20, 2014 at 10:14 am

    Love love love it. For the tall ribbed cacti Could you sub half a Twinkie or a ho ho? Or would that be to big

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  100. Rebecca

    January 6, 2015 at 10:32 pm

    These are just beautiful!

  101. #DIY LOVER

    January 9, 2015 at 4:28 pm

    The Cupcakes look really hard at first but with you directions it makes it look so easy!!
    YOUR AWESOME!!

    1. alanajonesmann

      January 12, 2015 at 7:06 pm

      thank you so much!

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  106. Kristie

    March 24, 2015 at 4:08 pm

    What frosting recipe do you use?

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  125. David Derting

    June 11, 2015 at 9:24 am

    You mentioned chilling the buttercream for thicker consistency, but wouldn’t the icing droop or “melt” as it warms? Would love to do this, but my chilled buttercream always seems to “melt”

    1. alanajonesmann

      June 11, 2015 at 1:53 pm

      Don’t use cream or milk in your frosting and the consistency will be less affected by the temperature. And as long as your room is a moderate temperature, you’ll be fine!

  126. busyhoneyb

    June 12, 2015 at 1:07 pm

    I think that you would be able to use twinkies for the tall cactus and it would be really edible

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  128. grenouille00

    June 26, 2015 at 2:46 am

    I always wondered: are you supposed to eat the fondant/frosting ? It looks beautiful, but most taste very sweet, no ?

    1. Toni Browne

      June 26, 2015 at 1:52 pm

      Fondant was basically invented by the English and it was intended to encase a cake to keep it ‘fresh’ longer. It was pealed off and discarded at serving time…… It wasn’t meant to be eaten, but through the years it has become the norm to serve it…. Many people complain about the taste/flavor so companies have tried to improve it. In my opinion, the only fondant good enough to serve and eat is homemade… but that’s just my opinion…

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  141. Sydney Johnston

    April 6, 2016 at 8:20 pm

    So adorable! I’m going to try it. My college kids think it would be fun for their Spanish and Latin Club Banquet and want me to try it!

  142. Michael Byun

    April 21, 2016 at 7:54 am

    I love these! Your leafy plants remind me of Ariocarpus retusus or Euphorbia suzannae.

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    July 7, 2016 at 9:09 pm

    I like it I shal try it during the culture week in Curacao

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  149. Linda Wright

    August 5, 2016 at 2:34 am

    I LOVE these! They are super gorgeous! When we were children, my older sister fell off her bike into a garden of cacti! She spent well over an hour with mum – tweezers in her hand! – in the bathroom. My other sister and brothers, and me, sat outside the door listening to our sister yell Ow! Ow! OOOwwww! I should make some of these delectable, great looking, cupcakes and give them to her! Just hand them to her on a plate and say: “Ow!”

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  155. Ramond

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