Hydrangea Cupcakes

I got engaged in February, but we wanted to wait until the Spring to have our engagement party. It isn't going to be very big; mostly family. Anywho, it is tomorrow.
I am thinking about having hydrangeas in the centerpieces for the wedding, so I thought it would be fun to decorate the cupcakes for the party with hydrangeas. This was my first time trying it and I would say that it was a success!

First, I made baked the cupcakes. I really like lemon, so I made lemon ones.

Our colors for the wedding are yellow with a little bit of orange, so of course I did yellow and orange frosting. I did not make my own frosting, but you could if you wanted to. I used one tub of frosting for each color. I added food coloring and mixed it until I achieved the perfect color. Make sure if you are mixing colors (like yellow and red to make orange) you add the lightest color first.

I saw this really cool trick for using frosting tips. You put your frosting onto a sheet of plastic wrap and roll it up. Then, you pick it up and fling it around, twisting the ends. Then, you clip one end and place it into your coupler. It makes clean up so much easier.
Plop both colors of your frosting next to each other on the plastic.

The tip I used is the Wilton 2D large closed star tip. You squeeze the frosting out a little bit then press down and let it squeeze out of the sides a little bit, then twist and lift up. It took me a couple tries to perfect my technique, but once I did they turned out really awesome looking!