Charming pumpkin spice Sunflower Cupcakes that are perfect for fall! The cake is moist and delicious and with a classic buttercream frosting and chocolate sprinkles.

Did you know that during growth, sunflowers tilt to face the sun during the day and then stop when they start to bloom?! Isn’t that so intriguing? Sunflowers are quintessential to the month of September.

I love them because they are straightforward to maintain and arrange and look beautiful in a vase alone. I wanted to make some adorable little silicone pots, so we made pumpkin spice Sunflower Cupcakes in honor of fall and to welcome September!

The cupcakes are moist and incredibly tasty, with the perfect amount of fall spice and flavors. And you can’t go wrong with a classic buttercream frosting, either!

We put them in these adorable flower baking pots. You can find them here.

You can bake the cupcakes in the molds, but they have to rise perfectly above the pot for the flower to work. If the cupcake doesn’t rise over the top, the flower will not work at all.

To make it easier, bake them in cupcakes papers and then set them in the molds. Try it either way and do what works best for you.

Supplies for Sunflower Cupcakes

• Leaf Frosting Tip
• Piping Bag
• Chocolate Jimmies Sprinkles 
• Silicone Baking Pots
• Cupcake Wrappers
• Yellow and Green Food Dye

How to Make Sunflower Cupcakes

Step by Step Guide with Photos

• Once the cupcakes are baked and cooled, you can start to frost them!

• Make a batch of the buttercream frosting. Scoop 1/4 of it out to dye green for the leaves. The rest can be dyed yellow for the flower. You will use more yellow than green frosting for these cupcakes.

• Add a large circle of frosting in the center of the cupcake. Just remember the center of a sunflower is going to be larger than the actual flower petals.

We frosted them before playing the cupcake in the silicone baking pot.

• Dip the top of the cupcake into a bowl of brown sprinkles to create the center. You can sprinkle more in the center later, but this gives you a nice outline.

• Once the frosting is made (recipe below), fit a piping bag with the leaf tip and scoop the frosting inside.
• The leaf tip should be held diagonal when you make a petal.
• Slowly push down and then slightly pull up in an upward motion. You want the flower petals to stick up, not down.

• Do three layers of frosting petals until the cupcake is covered.
• Then switch out the tip to the green frosting and pipe some leaves on the side of the cupcake.
• Sprinkle more chocolate sprinkles in the center of the cupcake.

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