Floral “cupcakes”

“I like dressing up my table with eye-catching accents when I host a dinner party, but it can be hard to find the time,” says Patty Bontekoe, FIRST deputy editor. “My fast, wallet-friendly fix: these adorable blooming cupcakes. To make them, I snip a piece of floral foam to fit inside a cupcake wrapper, soak the foam in water, then pop it into the paper. To finish, I snip a handful of seasonal blooms to

2 1⁄2 inches and insert them into the foam. It’s such an easy way to add a pop of color to the table.”