Red, White, & Blue...CUPCAKES!

Me and the boy woke up this morning and decided it would be a good idea to eat breakfast at The Blue Plate Cafe to celebrate the 4th and the fact that we haven't eaten out in a week! We did really good sticking to healthier eating, so what would be better than having some down home southern breakfast right? hehehe ;)

It's a cute little place...

The boy had French Toast with lots of butter and syrup!

I had a fried egg sandwich with a side of hash browns. Mmmmm.

They had really cool dog artwork on every wall by Debbie Richards. She does all kinds of portraits. I liked the Pug of course :)

After that we headed on over to my favorite store to pick up the necessary supplies to make festive cupcakes. I decided yesterday that I wanted to make red, white, and blue cupcakes after seeing rainbow cupcakes online. Neither of us are really that patriotic, but it seemed like a fun idea so we went with it.

This is our brand new Target...it's so nice and organized inside :D

It's cupcake making time!

We needed white cake mix, red & blue food coloring (The gel kind is great!), and frosting. The Frosting was on sale too, YAY! We already had eggs and oil. We also already had a mini cupcake pan but we needed a regular sized pan so we picked up that and liners too...

I mixed everything up and divided the batter evenly into 3 containers. Then I mixed red food coloring into one and blue into another...one stays white. I used a lot of food coloring for each because I wanted a rich color. I think maybe 1/3 of the tube. (Next time I will use even more because the color didn't come out as rich as i wanted after baking.)

Next, I poured a small amount of blue into all the liners. I used just enough to fully cover the bottom of each cup. Then I shook the pan to make sure the batter spread out evenly. Then I did the same thing with the white and then the red until all the cups were about 2/3 full. Some went a little over but it doesn't really matter. I ran out of red towards the end but I just planned on making the icing on those red so that doesn't really matter either.

They bake for about 20 minutes @ 325. If you do decide to try these out, while you're waiting for them to bake, make the man wash the dishes, ha!


They're done! So YUMMY looking!

Aren't they beautiful inside?


After they cooled, I iced and sprinkled away. They were soooooooo good! I will definitely try this recipe again on different holidays with different colors. It was so fun!

These are the bigger cupcakes....

These are the mini me cupcakes...
I love this picture, LOL! That's her serious begging face. She did get to lick some icing and she got a little cake too ;)


ENJOY YOUR HOLIDAY!