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Patriotic Cupcakes / Holiday Cupcakes




Source of Recipe


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Recipe Introduction


Yield: 1 1/2 dozen
Also, please see Review!!


List of Ingredients




1 (18-1/4 ounce) package white cake mix
1/2 teaspoon blue food coloring
1/2 teaspoon red food coloring
1 (16 ounce) can vanilla frosting
Red, white and blue sprinkles

Recipe



Prepare cake batter according to package directions.

In a small bowl, combine 1-1/3 cups batter and blue food coloring. In another bowl, combine 1-1/3 cups batter and red food coloring. Leave remaining batter plain.

Fill paper-lined muffin cups with 2 tablespoons red batter, 2 tablespoons plain batter and 2 tablespoons blue batter.

Bake at 350ºF for 20-24 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks to cool completely.

Frost with vanilla frosting; decorate with sprinkles.

Taste of Home's Quick Cooking (July/August 2005) Recipe By: Jodi Rugg of Aurora, Illinois

Review: Posted by: DoveChocolate / I just wanted to let you know these cupcakes turned out beautiful. I was so happy with them. The colors were bold and vibrant. I used the Wilton Icing Colors (gels). I used "Red Red" and Royal Blue. I had a little "Christmas Red" in another bottle, so I did put a little of that in my red mixture. I changed the recipe a little by adding 2 tsp. of almond extract to my cake batter and 1 tsp. of almond extract to the frosting. I would have added another tsp. but I didn't want to make the frosting too runny. I love almond flavoring and that gave the cupcakes a nice flavor.

Please read the recipe carefully. I set out 3 - 1 1/3 C portions, but I still had batter left over, so I remeasured and ended up with 1 2/3 C of batter for each color. Here is where I messed up. I had read where you put 2 T of cake batter in each cupcake liner for all 3 colors. It didn't take long to realize I was running out of batter. So I went back and read the recipe more carefully and noticed where it said 18 cupcakes. So I only ended up with 15 Red, White and Blue ones. The others were all blue or blue and white. I was hesitant to put too much batter in each cupcake for fear of it going over in the oven and ruining the look of the cupcake.

I will end up doing this at Halloween with orange and black. Christmas with red and green. Valentines Day with pink and red. Easter would be beautiful with pastels colors. I would still use a white layer for everything except Easter.