Cotton Candy Cupcakes Recipe & Tutorial
- Cupcake ingredients:
- 1 box of White cake mix
- Water, vegetable oil, and eggs (back of cake mix box)
- Food coloring: pink, blue, and purple
- Frosting Ingredients:
- 2 C unsalted sweet cream butter (softened)
- 5 C powder sugar
- 2 tsp vanilla
- 6-10 TBSP heavy whipping cream
- Blue, pink and purple food coloring
- Other supplies needed:
- 1 disposable piping bag with a star piping tip
- 1 container of pink, blue, and purple cotton candy.
- Paper straws cut in half to add the cotton candy to the cupcake.
- 3 mixing bowls
- Cupcake Directions:
- Heat oven to 350 degrees.
- Prepare cupcake pan with liners.
- Make cake mix as directed on box for cupcakes.
- Divide the prepared cake mix into 3 small bowls.
- Add several drops of the pink food coloring in the first bowl. Stir to mix well.
- Add several drops of the blue food coloring in the second bowl. Stir to mix well.
- Add several drops of purple food coloring in the third bowl. Stir to mix well.
- Add a teaspoon in each bowl of the colored cake mix.
- Alternate spoonfuls of the colored cake mix in each of the cupcake liners.
- Fill cupcake liners ¾'s full.
- Bake in the oven for 22 minutes
- Set aside to cool completely.
- Frosting directions:
- Using a stand mixer, combine all ingredients and mix on medium speed.
- Mix until you see stiffed peaks in your frosting.
- Once the frosting is made, divide equally into 3 bowls
- Add 1 drop of pink food coloring into the first bowl. Stir well to mix the color throughout all of the frosting.
- Add 1 drop of blue food coloring in the 2nd bowl of frosting. Stir to mix well.
- Add 1 drop of purple food coloring in the 3rd bowl. Stir to mix the color throughout the frosting.
- Scoop the pink frosting into the pastry bag on one side of the bag.
- Scoop the blue frosting into the pastry bag on another side of the pastry bag.
- Scoop the purple frosting into the remaining side of the pastry bag.
- Squeeze the open end of the pastry bag to push the frosting to the star tip.
- Continue to push the frosting until it comes out of the tip.
- Begin to frost the cupcake working from the outside edge to the center point of the cupcake.
- Repeat on each cupcake until they are all frosted.
- Take a handful of cotton candy and push it on the top of each straw. Alternate the colors of the cotton candy onto the cupcakes.
- Push each straw down into the cupcake.
- Enjoy!
Recipe by Mom Does Reviews at https://www.momdoesreviews.com/2019/03/07/extreme-cotton-candy-cupcakes-recipe-tutorial/
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