Our local community has a Flag Day parade every year and before the parade, I hold a cook-out picnic for some family, neighbors and friends.
This year I decided I wanted to make an easy but very festive dessert. Something that would be convenient to serve but wouldn’t take all day to prepare. I came up with a basic recipe for red, white and blue cupcakes. I had seen a similar idea in a home magazine and just adapted the idea to what I wanted.
Easy Red, White and Blue Cupcakes
1 box cake mix prepared according to box directions
Red food coloring
Blue food coloring
White homemade or all-ready prepared frosting
Begin by mix up the cake batter according the directions on the back of the box. Then evenly divide the batter into three equal bowls.
Add the red food coloring to one bowl and the blue food coloring to another bowl. Stir well.
Carefully drop one tablespoon of each color into a prepared muffin tin.
Bake according to the directions on the back of the cake mix. Allow to cool before frosting.
I ran out of time making these so I had to quick whip something up for the frosting. I ended up using a cream cheese frosting and placed a dollop on top of each cupcake. I carefully spread the frosting out into a small circle and then using the handle part on my fork, just made a star in the top of the frosting. I think that if I had had time to use pipe able frosting, I could have made a better looking star on the top of these. I didn’t have any mini flags available but I could see inserting a small tooth pick American flag in the middle of the cupcakes if you didn’t want to try making your own star.
Look how pretty the paper wrapper looks!
These were easy to make, looked great and were very festive. I could see mixing up the colors for different holidays like Easter (pink, blue and white), Christmas (red and green), Thanksgiving (yellow, orange and brown) etc.
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