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Patriotic Cupcakes Recipe

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These festive cupcakes from Jodi Rugg of Aurora,Illinois are sure to be the star of your Fourth of July menu. "One year, I divided the batter from regular cupcakes into portions and used food coloring to make red, white and blue treats," Jodi explains. "Our kids loved helping prepare them." TIP: "Our daughters suggests trying different food coloring for the holidays," notes Jodi.

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Patriotic Cupcakes Recipe

Prep: 15 min. Bake: 20 min. + cooling

Yield: 18 Servings

15 25 40

Ingredients

1 package white cake mix (regular size)
1/2 teaspoon blue food coloring
1/2 teaspoon red food coloring
1 can (16 ounces) vanilla frosting
Red, white and blue sprinkles

Directions

Prepare cake mix batter according to package directions for cupcakes.
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 350° for 20-24 minutes or until a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks to cool completely. Frost with vanilla frosting; decorate with sprinkles. Yield: 1-1/2 dozen.

Originally published as Patriotic Cupcakes in Quick Cooking July/August 2005, p26

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Reviewed on Sep. 05, 2010 by rusty_angel

Easy to make, colorful, festive and absolutely delicious! Thanks so much for sharing the recipe :]

Reviewed on Sep. 04, 2010 by Jazmine1142

These turned out beautifully! I used only 1 heaping teaspoon of each color batter rather than two tablespoons and that seemed to work well.

Reviewed on Jul. 04, 2010 by mainstreetmagic

After reading the other reviews, my daughter and I decided to make these cupcakes for a holiday party. On the recommendation of other readers, we used one heaping tablespoon of each color - and I even thought that was a little too much. The batter rose over the cupcake liners and onto the pan. They were time-consuming, but I had read that before starting so I was ready for it. We took our time, and it was SO WORTH IT! They came out soooo pretty! We layered our colors the opposite, so it was blue on the bottom, white, then red on top. The next time I make these, I will just add a tablespoon of each color, not a heaping tablespoon. Our batch only made 14 cupcakes. By making this change the next time, it should stretch our batch to 15-16 cupcakes. Thank you for the great idea!

Reviewed on Jul. 03, 2010 by neeko999

I made this alittle diffrently but same idea, I did the ole poke cake recipe. I cut the tops off the cupcakes and poked the cupcakes and put a TBs of blue jello on each and put a spoonful of can cherries on top. Put the cupcake lid back on and frosted in white frosting star shaped.... DELISH!!!! Oh yea and with the sprinkles. You do need to refrigerate so jello sets up like original recipe! Heaven!!

Reviewed on Jul. 02, 2010 by TerriG120

I'd have to say more like 2 TEASPOONS of batter apiece. I used one tablespoon apiece and only got 14 cupcakes that baked way over the top of a standard pan. But, they look cute, especially once I get them frosted and decorated. (I used Wilton's no-taste red to get a pretty red color without the flavor change)

Reviewed on Jun. 30, 2010 by kraftyknits

Great recipie & really cute! Made them last year for the 4th and they turned out just like the picture. Note: 2 T. of each color is too much! 1 T. of each is much better. *Helpful Hint*: Use 3 disposable pastry bags to fill cups w/the 3 colors. This will cut your prep time in half! Use white paper liner if you really want to show off the tri-color effect from the outside. I have been asked to make them again this year for the 4th!

Reviewed on Jun. 08, 2010 by donna48189

One more thing... Seeing how Memorial Day and 4th of July are pretty close, why not make extra by using a box of red velvet cake for the red part and freeze extras for the 4th? As stated before, it's so hard to get a true red with dye and if you use too much it tastes aweful!

Reviewed on Jun. 08, 2010 by donna48189

I like the idea people are giving about instead of making three different batter colors, use two and color the frosting. But have you ever tried to make a true red frosting? Also, if you are still coloring two items, what difference does it make if it's the batter or frosting? Just curious!

Reviewed on Jun. 02, 2010 by Nancy__Az

These were very festive for Memorial Day. They would be cute for other holidays with the different colors.

Reviewed on Feb. 19, 2010 by bullwink

These were so easy and creative...big hit! Just make sure everything prepped before you get started can be a little messy, but so worth it when the kids bite into these cupcakes!

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