12+ Sweet Flowers to Make and Eat

Pretty flowers don’t just have to grow in your garden! You can craft flowers out of paper and pipe cleaners or make sweet flower cookies, cupcakes, and candy to eat.

I’ve rounded up a collection of truly beautiful sweets that look like daisies, roses, and daffodils to name a few!

Let’s make some Sweet PEtals with the kids

Your kids will have a blast getting their hands dirty while planting a lollipop and marshmallow flower in a chocolate cupcake cup or potting pineapple sunflowers in strawberry planters.

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Flower Cookies Recipe

1. Sunflower Cookie Pops Recipe

Use traditional orange and yellow candy corn or bright pink and purple candy corn to adorn peanut butter crackers to make sunflower Cookie Pops. Look how bright and cheerful these are from Sweet Sugar Belle

2. Easy Flower Cookie Pop

What could be simpler than decorating flower cookie pops with colored sugar and adding paper leaves to make sweet flower cookie pops? Check this one out from The Decorated Cookie for Sheek Shindigs! This is a delicious sugar cookie recipe. They’re flower shape!

3. Delectable Oreo Flower Recipe

Oreos dipped in white candy melts can be decorated to look like flower pops using Jordan Almonds and sprinkles. These Oreo flowers by Sweet Simple Stuff are lovely and tasty!

4. Flower Shortbread Cookies

These shortbread cookies are amazing and they’re so cute. They’re citrusy and have edible flowers on them by Two Cups Flour. They’re easy to prep and easier to bake. Like most cookies just need parchment paper, a baking sheet, a large bowl.

5. Edible Flower Cookies

These bright and spring themed cookies are amazing. They’re buttery, floral, with hints of vanilla extract. Absolutely beautiful and delicious by Girl Style. Make sure you use ungreased cookie sheets. The fresh flowers are edibles.

6. Homemade Royal Icing Flower Cookies

These sugar cookie flowers with royal icing are delicious. And they’re beautiful with their light pink, dark pink, and white petals. Then the pearl sprinkles…these are amazing by Foodal. This is a delicious sugar cookie dough recipe too.

Flower Cake Recipes

6. Easy Flower Cupcake Recipe

Place a single lollipop blooming out of a cupcake makes the cutest little flower. Add some leaves and sprinkles and you have a really pretty spring treat. This flower cupcake from Bubbly Nature Creations is sure to be a hit.

7. Daisy Cakes Recipes

Use this daisy cake recipes from Hungry Happenings to color cake batter and paint it into flower shaped molds to create bright and cheery daisy cakes. These can be used as cupcake toppers, or turned into a beautiful bouquet.

8. Lollipop Flower Cupcakes Recipe

These lollipop flower cupcakes from Domestic Fits are almost too cute to eat….almost. Marshmallows can be cut to make pretty petals for lollipop flowers and look lovely popping up out of chocolate graham cracker coated muffins.

9. Extravagant Flower Cake Pop Recipe

Want an extravagant flower cake pop? Then you’ll love these blooming flower cake pops, they’re so bright and vibrant! Fab idea by Wilton.

10. Easy Flower Cupcake Cake

This flower cupcake cake by Culinary Couture is a pull apart cake! It is a super easy way to create a flower bouquet cake is by using individual cupcakes that are arranged and decorated with frosting.

Flower Candy Recipes

11. Candy Flower Bouquet Ideas

Real flowers are nice, so are these candy flower bouquet ideas though. Transform a simple store bought marshmallow into a gorgeous marshmallow rose using some pretty pink sugar and icing. Lovely idea from Sugartown Sweets. Make rose petals easily.

12. Colorful Flower Pot Recipe

This flower pot recipe by Erica’s Sweet Tooth will give your flower treats a great base. Cookie cups filled with chocolate peanut butter candies make perfectly shaped flower pots to hold sunflower and tulip cookie pops.

13. Sweet Daffodil Edible Recipe

This daffodil edible by Hungry Happenings is my absolute favorite. Yellow candy melts can be crafted into bowls and piped into petals to make Daffodil Candy Cups. These can be filled with candy or lemon mousse.

Healthy Flower Snacks Recipes

14. Healthy and Sweet Flower Snack

You can use strawberries filled with grapes make sweet little flower pots to hold yellow pineapple daisies to make awesome and delicious (did I mention healthy) flower snacks! Fun idea from Kitchen Fun With My 3 Sons!

Beautiful FLower Crafts Your kids can Make from Kids Activities Blog

• If you’re not in the mood to cook, you can always make these pretty flower crafts instead!
• You can also teach your preschooler how to make their own flower crafts.
• Make some pretty tulip crafts with your little gardener.
• Have some older kiddos? These origami flower crafts are perfect for them.
• You can make flowers out of tissue paper.
• You can even make easy flowers from plastic bags. They look like poppies.
• Save some of those cupcake liners to make colorful spring flowers.
• We even have flower templates for you to decorate and put together.
• Check out all these pretty flower coloring pages.
• These lovely flowers are made of ribbons and gems.
• Use your pipe cleaners to make beautiful flowers.

Have fun creating your edible garden filled with cookie flower pops, cupcake bouquets, and daffodil candy cups!

Which easy sweet dessert recipe are you making for your family?