Flamingo Cupcake Cake

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Throwing a luau or a party for a flamingo lover? This flamingo cupcake cake will be the perfect centerpiece for your event. Also known as pull-apart cupcakes, cupcake cakes are great when you want a large centerpiece for your party, like a cake, but want the ease of cupcakes.

See our other flamingo themed cupcake ideas.
Pink Flamingo Cupcake Cake

How to Make a Flamingo Cupcake Cake

Looking for an easy flamingo cupcake cake to create at home? We will teach you how to create this fun pull-apart cupcake cake!

Ingredients

  • 30 Baked Cupcakes
  • Batch of Buttercream Icing

Instructions

To begin this project you will need a batch of buttercream icing colored white, pink, orange, blue, and black.
Take your thirty baked cupcakes and place them onto your cake board in a flamingo shape.
uniced cupcakes arranged in a flamingo shape
Once you have them to their desired position use a dollop of buttercream to “glue” them into the board.
piping buttercream to bottom of cupcake to attach it to the board
Fill a piping bag fitted with a 1M tip with pink buttercream icing. Fill in any large gaps between cupcakes with buttercream. Make sure to only do this in areas that you will be piping in pink (the body excluding the beak and legs). You will use this same bag to create the rosettes in a future step.
filling in gaps between cupcakes with buttercream
Take a spatula and spread the three “beak” cupcakes with white buttercream icing.
three cupcakes with white icing for flamingo beak
Pipe pink rosettes onto the cupcakes that make up the flamingo’s head and body. Make sure to leave the legs and water un-iced.
piping pink rosettes
Fill in the empty spaces between cupcakes with icing.
piping buttercream to fill in the empty spaces
With a spatula spread white buttercream onto the two cupcakes where the legs will be located.
spreading white buttercream with a spatula
Fill a piping bag fitted with a 1M tip with blue buttercream icing. Pipe rosettes onto the cupcakes that make up the water. Fill in the empty spaces between the cupcakes.
piping blue buttercream rosettespiping blue buttercream to fill in spaces
Decorate the water with sealife edible cupcake toppers.
adding edible icing decorations shaped like sea creatures
Fill a piping bag fitted with a #803 tip with orange buttercream icing. Pipe two lines onto the two white cupcakes to make legs. Pipe one line for the beak.
two piped lines made with orange buttercreamone piped line made with orange buttercream
Fill a piping bag fitted with a #803 tip with black buttercream icing and pipe the beak. Use a small spatula to smooth the icing.
smoothing black buttercream the shape of a beak
Pipe a black eye (or simply use a Mercken chocolate wafer!). Don’t forget to add a small dab of white icing to bring the eye to life.
mercken chocolate wafer eye
Take one more look and fill in any gaps.

Tips & Tricks

Do you find that making black buttercream is a difficult to achieve task? Purchase our premade black buttercream.

Video Tutorial

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