We made these cupcakes in the culinary school cookies & cupcakes class.  The sunflower cupcakes are from the class and the lavender cupcakes I made a week later.  This is a recipe for a half batch of what we made but it should be plenty.  I had never made Swiss Meringue but it was lovely. For the sunflowers, we used ganache and chocolate sprinkles to make seeds.

Chocolate Cupcakes

(Coming Soon)

Swiss Meringue Buttercream

(Coming Soon)