Description
These adorable Fall Daisy Mini Cupcakes feature rich chocolate cupcakes topped with creamy chocolate buttercream and decorated with colorful M&M’s arranged to look like daisies—perfect for festive autumn gatherings or a fun dessert treat.
Ingredients
Scale
Chocolate Cupcake
- 1 batch chocolate cupcake batter (approximately 24 mini cupcakes worth)
Chocolate Buttercream
- 1 batch chocolate buttercream frosting (enough to pipe onto 24 mini cupcakes)
Decorations
- 24 M&M’s Fall Harvest Milk Chocolate Candies
- 144 M&M’s Milk Chocolate Candies for petals (6 per cupcake)
Instructions
- Prepare cupcakes: Bake 24 mini chocolate cupcakes using your favorite chocolate cupcake recipe and allow them to cool completely before decorating.
- Pipe frosting: Using a disposable pastry bag fitted with a 2A round decorating tip, or alternatively a knife, offset spatula, or a plastic sandwich bag with a corner snipped off, pipe a small blob of chocolate buttercream onto the center of each cupcake.
- Decorate with M&M’s: Gently press one M&M into the center of the frosting blob to form the flower’s center, then carefully place six M&M’s around it evenly spaced to create the petals, forming a daisy shape on each cupcake.
- Serve: Once all cupcakes are decorated, enjoy immediately or store in a cool place until ready to serve.
Notes
- You can use either M&M’s Fall Harvest or regular M&M’s for the petals; the author used regular for orange petals and Fall Harvest for others to enhance color variety.
- If you don’t have a piping bag, a plastic sandwich bag with a small snip in the corner works well for applying frosting.
- Ensure cupcakes are fully cooled before frosting to prevent the buttercream from melting.
- Mini cupcake pans typically bake in about 15-18 minutes at 350°F; adjust bake time according to your recipe.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 mini cupcake
- Calories: 120 kcal
- Sugar: 12 g
- Sodium: 55 mg
- Fat: 6 g
- Saturated Fat: 3.5 g
- Unsaturated Fat: 2 g
- Trans Fat: 0 g
- Carbohydrates: 16 g
- Fiber: 1 g
- Protein: 1 g
- Cholesterol: 15 mg
