Patriotic Red, White, and Blue Cupcakes
Make patriotic red, white, and blue cupcakes for any holiday or get-together! Layers of red, white, and blue come together with creamy frosting and colored glitter for a beautiful and delicious treat!
Summer time is just around the corner, and I’ve got summer holidays on the brain. It’s time to start breaking out anything and everything red, white, and blue!
This recipe looks complicated and impressive, but it’s actually super easy! You can use a homemade cake recipe and homemade buttercream frosting, but I decided to save time by using box cake mix and canned frosting.
If you love these red, white, and blue cupcakes and want more patriotic goodness, check out my Fruit Tacos With Fresh Berries and Fresh Berry Instant Pot Cheesecake!
Ingredients Needed For Red, White, And Blue Cupcakes
You only need a handful of ingredients for this red white blue cupcake recipe!
- 1 box white cake mix
- Vegetable oil & eggs per package directions
- 1 tub white frosting
- Red & blue gel food coloring
- Red & blue sprinkles or sprinklefetti
- Piping bag w/ decorating tip – if desired
How To Make Red, White, And Blue Cupcakes
Preheat oven per cake directions.
Prepare cake mix per package directions.
Equally divide the batter into 3 separate bowls.
Using the gel food coloring dye one bowl red and one bowl blue, leave one bowl white.
Prepare cupcake tin with liners.
Starting with the blue batter spoon about 1 tablespoon of batter into all the liners.
Next spoon in the white batter.
Lastly spoon in the red batter.
Bake until a toothpick in the center comes out clean, cool completely.
Spoon the frosting into a piping bag or simply spread it on with a spatula.
Use the red and blue sprinkles to finish the decorating.
Serve, enjoy, and have fun!
Red, White, and Blue Cupcakes Recipe Tips
Here are a few tips and tricks to ensure that this recipe turns out perfectly every time!
- I highly recommend using gel-paste food coloring. Thanks to the super-concentrated color, you will use less at a time and achieve more intense, bold colors. Plus, the liquid food coloring can “water down” your batter – that’s bad!
- If you want really white cupcakes, use clear vanilla extract instead of normal vanilla extract.
Variations To Try
- Play Colored Dough Layers – I layered the different colors, but you could try different combos of color patterns. You could different color batters into each muffin cup in thirds. Another option is to swirl the colors together, making an almost tie-dye pattern.
- Color The Frosting – I chose to use white frosting and then use sprinkles to color it. However, you could swirl together colors of frosting using the same technique I used for my Rainbow Unicorn Cupcakes.
- Add toothpick flags to the frosting – wouldn’t that be cute?
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Red, White & Blue Cupcakes
Patriotic and festive red, white, and blue cupcakes that are moist, fun, delicious, and super easy to make!
Ingredients
- 1 box white cake mix
- Vegetable oil & eggs per package directions
- 1 tub white frosting
- Red & blue gel food coloring
- Red & blue sprinkles or sprinklefetti
- Piping bag w/ decorating tip – if desired
Instructions
- Preheat oven per cake directions.
- Prepare cake mix per package directions.
- Equally divide the batter into 3 separate bowls.
- Using the gel food coloring dye one bowl red and one bowl blue, leave one bowl white.
- Prepare cupcake tin with liners.
- Starting with the blue batter spoon about 1 tablespoon of batter into all the liners.
- Next spoon in the white batter.
- Lastly, spoon in the red batter.
- Bake until a toothpick in the center comes out clean, cool completelySpoon the frosting into a piping bag or simply spread it on with a spatula.
- Use the red and blue sprinkles to finish the decorating.
- Serve, enjoy, and have fun!
