Patriotic Red White And Blue Cupcake Tribute Recipe

Just a fun easy suggestion to decorate your tables with these pretty festive cupcakes. The kids will have fun making them. I highly recommend the homemade recipe to make them super special. Let's get started to get your festive looking cupcakes!

Make your favorite cake mix for your cupcakes or use scratch recipe below

Red and blue colored sugar (you can also add some regular white sugar on the center for more glitter effect, I omitted for less sweetness.)

Mascarpone Homemade vanilla cheese frosting below or canned store bought vanilla

Spread the cooked cooled cupcakes with vanilla icing. Sprinkle one side with blue, leave the white in the middle and red at the end.

Recipes :

Vanilla Scratch Cupcakes:

• 3 cups flour
• 1 tablespoon baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 2 cups sugar
• 1 stick unsalted butter softened (8 tablespoons)
• 4 extra large eggs
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 cup milk
• With an electric mixer in a medium size bowl beat the sugar and butter together until light around 4 minutes. Add the vanilla, eggs, milk to blend then add the, baking powder, salt then the flour a little at a time. Proceed with above instructions for cupcakes. Bake 25 to 30 minutes until centers come out clean with a toothpick.
• Mascarpone Cheese Homemade Frosting:
• 4 ounces Mascarpone Cheese or use cream cheese if you don't have any
• 2 cups powdered sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla

Blend in a medium sized bowl the cheese and vanilla with a fork adding the powdered sugar a little at a time. Add some water if too thick to spread, 1 teaspoon at a time.

+claudia lamascolo Author