Patriotic Cupcakes
What you need:
Red-red gel food coloring
Royal Blue gel food coloring
1 recipe vanilla cupcakes
1 cupcake pan
12 cupcake liners
1 recipe vanilla buttercream
1 1M icing tip
1 icing bag
Start with the cupcakes
- Make vanilla cupcakes per recipe
- Line cupcake pan with cupcake liners and preheat oven 350 degrees
- Divide batter into 3 parts, about 1 ¼ cup per part
- Tint one part red using about 1/8 teaspoon Red-red gel food coloring
Add gel food coloring to batter
tinted batter
- Tint one part blue using about 1/8 teaspoon Royal Blue gel food coloring
- Using a small ice scream scoop, start by putting ¾ scoop of red batter into the bottom on the lined cupcake pan
start with red batter
- Using a the same size scoop, put the plain colored batter on top of the red, continue till all cupcake wells have both red and white batter in them
add white batter
- Using the same size scoop put blue batter on top of white batter
Add blue batter
- For a unified look, use the back of the scoop to evenly spread the different colored batters into a even layer. (I just scooped one on top of the other and left them slightly on even for a more fun spontaneous look)
- Bake cupcakes at 350 until a toothpick inserted into batter comes out clean, around 20-25 minutes
- Let cupcakes cool completely
baked cupcakes
*Tip: The cooked tinted batter will be darker then what the color it is before you pop it in the oven.
Wilton cupcake kit
To Make Swirl Vanilla Buttercream
- Make 1 recipe vanilla buttercream
- Assemble icing bag with 1M tip
- Using a food only paint brush, brush red and blue stripes along the inside of the bag with gel food coloring
paint gel food coloring onto the inside of piping bag
- Fill bag with butter cream icing
- Pipe in a circular motion from the outside in
Swirled frosting
yummy!
