Flag Cupcakes with Vanilla Buttercream

Name: Flag Cupcakes with Vanilla Buttercream
Prep time: 1 h 40 min
Cook time: 1 h 40 min
Total time: 1 h 40 min
Yield: 18
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 18 servings Strawberries and blueberries; 237 milliliters butter, softened; 2 eggs; 1 teaspoon grated lemon peel; 118 milliliters milk; 710 milliliters powdered sugar, sifted; 18 servings Red food color; 1 teaspoons salt; 237 milliliters sour cream; 2 teaspoons vanilla; 79 milliliters vegetable oil; 1 Tbsp Up milk or whipping cream; 1 box Betty Crocker® SuperMoist® white cake mix

Flag Cupcakes with Vanilla Buttercream might be just the dessert you are searching for. This recipe serves 18. One serving contains 434 calories, 3g of protein, and 19g of fat. This recipe covers 9% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. It is perfect for The Fourth Of July. A mixture of powdered sugar, food color, salt, and a handful of other ingredients are all it takes to make this recipe so flavorful. This recipe is typical of American cuisine. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes roughly 1 hour and 40 minutes.

Instructions

Heat oven to 350°F (325°F for dark or nonstick pan).

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Frying Pan

Place paper baking cup in each of 18 regular-size muffin cups.

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Muffin Liners

In large bowl, beat all cupcake ingredients except food color with electric mixer on low speed 30 seconds, then on medium speed 2 minutes, scraping bowl occasionally. Divide batter between 2 bowls.

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Food Color

Cupcakes

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Hand Mixer

Bowl

Add red food color to 1 bowl to desired color of red; leave other bowl white.

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Red Food Color

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Bowl

To make flag-striped cupcake, spread a spoonful of red batter and then a spoonful of white batter in paper baking cup; repeat, and then end by spreading red batter on top. Use up batter to make 18 cupcakes.

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Cupcakes

Spread

Bake as directed on box for cupcakes; 2 to 3 minutes may need to be added to bake time. Cool completely, about 20 minutes.

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Cupcakes

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Oven

To make frosting, beat butter with electric mixer on medium speed 3 minutes. With mixer on low speed, beat in 3 cups of the powdered sugar until sugar is incorporated with butter. With mixer on medium speed, add salt, vanilla and 2 tablespoons of the milk; beat 3 minutes. If frosting needs more stiff consistency, beat in up to 1 cup powdered sugar. If frosting needs to be thinned out, add remaining milk, 1 tablespoon at a time. Frost cupcakes with frosting.

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Powdered Sugar