Celebrate spring with cupcakes evocative of the season. With adorable baby bluebird cupcakes and pretty flower cupcakes, the following recipes will add spring to anyone's step.

Welcome spring with these sweet bluebirds, which are still too young to leave their shredded coconut nest. The birds are carefully piped out of tinted buttercream onto a simple vanilla-cake base.

You don't need perfect piping skills to decorate these flower-topped cupcakes. Edible flowers make a very pretty and elegant topping.

Celebrate May Day with these Maypole cupcakes, decorated with gumdrops encircled by jellied fruit slices cut into the shape of flower petals.

Some say that hummingbird cake is so-called because it makes you hum. This mini version is studded with banana, pineapple, walnut, and coconut, and topped with cream cheese frosting and a dried pineapple flower.

We used a seasonal treat -- tiny wild strawberries -- to top delightful strawberry cupcakes frosted with strawberry meringue buttercream.

Lemon, orange, and lime zests are mixed into the batter of these refreshing cupcakes and also get sprinkled over the glaze just before it sets.

Give cupcakes an Easter upgrade by using a German springerle mold. With just a quick press, you can imprint a design into fondant circles set atop carrot-cake cupcakes.

These dainty sweets begin with dark, indulgent brownie batter, baked in gilded cupcake liners. The delicate hue of the icing hints at its lavender flavor and aroma. Sugared pansies and violas create an elegant finishing touch.

Decorating cupcakes is a great way to get kids involved in baking. To make these butterfly cupcakes, start with a chocolate or vanilla cake base and ice with Swiss meringue buttercream. Put kids in charge of affixing candy heads, pretzel wings, and licorice antennae to form the butterflies.

Bake both regular and miniature versions of these cupcakes to capture the variations of flowers found in nature. To display the cupcakes, decorate cake stand tiers with crepe paper leaves and top with a watering can full of treats.

These cupcakes are actually meringues baked in paper-lined muffin tins. Stewed rhubarb and whipped cream make a very appealing topping.

These "cupcake" bites are created by mixing crumbled cake with frosting and forming it into cupcake shapes. The bites are dipped first into chocolate, then pink candy melts, and decorated with candies and sprinkles.