Whether you’re a mum yourself or if you have a number of mum figures in your life you think deserve a special treat, everyone is sure to love Mother’s Day cupcakes. A deliciously more-ish sweet treat is a great little token of appreciation to thank your mum for everything they do for you.
Best Mother's Day cupcakes at a glance:
• Best overall: Mother's Day Selection Box – view on Cutter & Squidge
• Best mini Mother's Day cupcakes: Mother's Day Mini Bite Cupcakes – view on Not on the Highstreet
• Best floral cupcakes: Waitrose 8 Floral Cupcakes – view on Waitrose
When it comes to showing our mums what our mums mean to us, it can be hard to find words to write in a Mother’s Day card or a gift to show them just how much. That’s why we’re here to help. If your mum is one of those mums who says they don’t need anything for Mother’s Day, Mother’s Day cupcakes may be the right gift. We’re sure they will appreciate having a moment to pop their feet up with a good cup of tea to indulge in a cupcake or two.
Mother’s Day 2024 is on Sunday 10 March so you’ve got plenty of time to put an order in for a dozen delicately decorated cupcakes to be delivered right to your mum’s door. You may even find some companies offer the option to combine gifts so you can get cupcakes and flowers delivered at the same time or even a bottle of bubbly. Here are some of our favourite places where you can order Mother’s Day cupcakes online for delivery in time for Mothering Sunday.
The best Mother's Day cupcakes to order
Best overall
Cutter and Squidgecutterandsquidge.com
Full of bite-sized delights, the Mother's Day Selection Box from Cutter & Squidge will be the perfect gift for any mum with a sweet tooth. These tiny cupcakes and macarons offer moments of small indulgence that are simply too sweet to resist.
Best mini Mother's Day cupcakes
Mama Doreen's Emporium/Not on the Highstreetwww.notonthehighstreet.com
These Mother's Day Mini Bite Cupcakes may be small but they're definitely more-ish, your mum won't be able to just have one with this box around. Each box contains 15 mini cupcakes, with five delicious flavours. Raspberry rainbow, sticky toffee, Champagne and white chocolate, carrot cake and chocolate fudge - yum, yum, YUM!
Best floral cupcakes
Waitrose/Fiona Cairns Bakerywww.waitrose.com
The modern way to send flowers. Designed and made exclusively for Waitrose & Partners by the Fiona Cairns bakery, these golden sponge cakes are hand-finished with vanilla buttercream to create a lovely spring array.
Customer review: "Best shop-bought cupcakes I ever had. In fact, I’m ordering again for no special reason apart from we all liked the and want more!!"
Best luxury cupcakes
GC Couture/Not on the Highstreetwww.notonthehighstreet.com
Available to buy in quantities of six, 12, 18 and 24, these GC Couture Luxury Cupcakes are definitely the option for spoiling your mum. With red velvet, chocolate, vanilla, cherry Bakewell, cookies and cream and white chocolate and raspberry cupcakes inside - how will your mum be able to choose which one to eat first?
Best Mother's Day brownies
M&Swww.marksandspencer.com
While not technically a cupcake, what mum is going to say no to some brownies? These Confetti Indulgent Chocolate Brownies have been cooked traditionally in trays to give them the perfect caramelised crust but their oh-so soft and gooey inside. They're also the right size to be popped straight into a letterbox if you're not able to see your mum on Mothering Sunday.
Customer review: "They were received with delight and were described as “loving the flavours”."
Best pink Mother's Day cupcakes
Waitrose/Fiona Cairns Bakery
Another option from the Fiona Cairns Bakery and Waitrose partnership. You get four in a pack with these delicately piped cupcakes with a pretty pink buttercream topped with a sprinkling of sugar decorations. The best part is that you don't need to give any notice for ordering and can pick them up with the rest of your weekly shop.
Customer review: "You’ll love these - light and fluffy sponge and gorgeous frosting; not too heavy considering the amount. Would definitely recommend!"
Best Mother's Day cupcake and flowers gift
Lola's Cupcakes/Your London Floristwww.lolascupcakes.co.uk
Can't decide between cupcakes and a bunch of flowers, thanks to Lola's Cupcakes Mother's Day Cupcake Flower Bundle, you can have both delivered to your mum's door. The flavours of the cupcakes include Lemon & Elderflower, Raspberry & Rose and a beautiful Vanilla cupcake, all decorated with a white chocolate 'Mum' plaque for that extra special touch.
How to make your own Mother's Day cupcakes:
If you'd rather make your own Mother's Day cupcakes than order them in, this recipe cupcakes from Baking Mad is a classic and perfect for every mum this Mother's Day. The recipe makes 12 cupcakes, and they are flavoured with rose water and multicoloured icing flavoured with orange blossom water. The only problem is that your mum might think they're a bit too pretty to eat!
Ingredients
• 250g Unrefined Golden Caster Sugar
• 250g Butter (unsalted) (softened)
• 4 Egg(s) (free range) (medium)
• 1 tsp Rose water
• 250g Self-raising white flour
For the decoration:
• 500g Icing Sugar
• 250g Butter (unsalted)
• 1 tsp Orange Blossom Water
• Food colouring (a few drops of green and pink)
• Sugar paste icing (assorted colours)
Method
1: Preheat your oven to 180°C (160°C fan, gas mark 4) and line a 12 hole muffin tin with cupcake cases.
2: Cream together the butter and sugar until pale and fluffy, then add the eggs one by one mixing well between each one, then add the rose water OR orange blossom extract.
3: Carefully fold in the flour then spoon into the cupcake cases until they are about 2/3 full. Place in the oven to bake for 25 minutes until the cakes are golden brown in colour and a skewer comes out clean.
4: Remove from the oven and leave to cool completely.
5: To make the buttercream, mix together the icing sugar and butter starting slowly then at a higher speed until the buttercream is light and fluffy, then split into 3 batches. Add the orange blossom water and some green food colouring to one batch and mix well, then colour the remaining batch pink.
6: Fill a piping bag fitted with your chosen nozzle, star for piping swirls or a curved border nozzle for leaf-shaped buttercream. Then decorate the cupcake starting from the outside edge of the cake and working in, following the picture for your chosen pattern.
7: You can finish the cupcakes with flowers made from sugar paste by rolling out the icing and cutting out a shape using icing cutters, then place on top of the cake.
FAQs
When is Mother's Day 2024?
As we mentioned earlier, Mother’s Day this year is on Sunday 10 March 2024 so you’ve still got a couple of weeks to decide whether cupcakes are the route to go or whether you want to splash out on something like a Mother’s Day food hamper, clothes or jewellery or even an experience, such as tickets to their favourite theatre show.
Rosie Floyd is a Pets, Homes and Garden Product Writer for Yours, specialising in home appliances, décor and furnishings, as well as all things dogs. After completing her Journalism & Media degree from Coventry University back in 2015, she started her career writing about must-visit holiday destinations, moving on to creating content around outdoor living and garden buildings, before joining the team at Bauer.