Saturday, July 4, 2009

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...
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The boy had French Toast with lots of butter and syrup!
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I had a fried egg sandwich with a side of hash browns. Mmmmm.
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They had really cool dog artwork on every wall by Debbie Richards. She does all kinds of portraits. I liked the Pug of course :)
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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
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It's cupcake making time!
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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...

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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.)

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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.

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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!
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They're done! So YUMMY looking!
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Aren't they beautiful inside?
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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....
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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 ;)
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ENJOY YOUR HOLIDAY!




4 lovely readers said...:

apparentlyjessy said...

Hello there! You have a fantastic blog! :)
I love the 4th July cupcakes you made, isn't it fun to have multicoloured batter!
Your puppy dog is SO cute! Ill be coming back to visit again for sure! x

Kim said...

Who could ever resist a face like that! I am definitely going to have to try these out- they look so fun!

April said...

I love Blue Plate we used to go there *every* Saturday morning, but we rotate places now. New Target is very appealing isn't it? Colonial Target is still my closet one though. Cupcakes look great, what a sweet pup too!

Blu said...

Wow......so cute! Makes me want to be in the kitchen....sort of. ;p