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Flower Garden Cupcakes

Beautifully decorated cupcakes with floral frosting designs. The base can be any flavor, but the real charm lies in their blooming appearance—perfect for showers, birthdays, or spring events.

Ingredients:

  • 1 package (2-layer size) white cake mix
  • 1 cup boiling water
  • 1 (3 ounce) package jell-o strawberry flavor gelatin
  • 1 (8 ounce) tub cool whip whipped topping, thawed green, yellow and red food coloring
  • suggested decorations:
  • jet-puffed marshmallows, colored sugar, small hard candies, baker's angel flake coconut, jet-puffed bunny
  • mallows marshmallows, nilla wafers, jet-puffed miniature marshmallows

Directions:

  1. Prepare cake batter and bake as directed on package for cupcakes. Cool in pans 10 min. Pierce tops with fork.
  2. Add boiling water to gelatin mix in small bowl; stir 2 min. until completely dissolved. Spoon over cupcakes. Refrigerate 30 min. Tint COOL WHIP with food coloring; spread over cupcakes.
  3. Decorate as desired. (See Tip.) Keep refrigerated.

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