Description
Delicious red, white, and blue cupcakes made with a cake mix and topped with festive frosting.
Ingredients
Scale
- 1 (14 ounce) white cake mix
- 1 (3 ounce) white chocolate pudding mix
- 1 cup buttermilk
- 3/4 cup melted butter
- 4 egg whites
- 3/4 cup shortening
- 1/4 cup softened butter
- 4 cups powdered sugar (sifted)
- 1 teaspoon clear vanilla extract
- 2 tablespoons heavy cream (or whole milk)
- red and blue gel food coloring
- sprinkles (optional, for decorating)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350℉ and prepare cupcake liners in pans, need 18-20 liners.
- Combine cake mix, pudding mix, buttermilk, melted butter, and egg whites in a mixing bowl. Mix until combined but be careful not to overmix.
- Separate batter into 3 bowls. Dye one bowl of batter red, one blue, and keep one white.
- Using a cookie scoop, scoop each color of batter into cupcake liners, filling each of them 3/4 of the way full.
- Bake for 14-18 minutes in preheated oven. They are ready when a toothpick inserted into the center of one of the cupcakes comes out clean. Turn the cupcakes out of the pan immediately and cool completely before adding frosting.
- While cupcakes are cooling, make the frosting. Cream shortening and butter in a stand mixer with the whisk attachment at medium speed.
- Add vanilla. Gradually add powdered sugar about a cup at a time and mix well. Scrape sides and bottom of the bowl often. Add milk or cream and beat until light and fluffy. Add more powdered sugar to thicken and milk or cream to thin.
- Divide frosting into 3 bowls for coloring. Use the dye to color one batch red and one blue.
- To make a swirl pattern, pipe lines of one of each color over a large square of plastic wrap.
- Roll up the frosting in the plastic wrap and cut off the tip of one side.
- Slip the frosting tube into a piping bag with a large star decorating tip. Make sure the cut side is facing down toward the tip.
- Pipe frosting onto cooled cupcakes and decorate with 4th of July sprinkles.
Notes
- Make sure to sift the powdered sugar for a smoother frosting.
- Adjust baking time as needed based on your oven.
- Prep Time: 20 minutes
- Cook Time: 18 minutes
- Category: Dessert
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 cupcake
- Calories: 150
- Sugar: 30g
- Sodium: 150mg
- Fat: 7g
- Saturated Fat: 3g
- Unsaturated Fat: 4g
- Trans Fat: 0g
- Carbohydrates: 24g
- Fiber: 0g
- Protein: 2g
- Cholesterol: 35mg