Jun 10, 2010
Baking Short: Tie-Dyed Cupcakes
Earlier this week I was commissioned to bake 3 dozen tie-dyed cupcakes for a middle school event. I wasn’t sure if I would blog this, but they turned out so cute and so many of you asked about them I decided to put them up. Having never made a tie-dyed pastry of any sort, figuring out how to do this was a challenge and really fun!
I just got the last of the green food coloring off my skin today.
How to assemble the cupcakes:
- Line a cupcake pan with cupcake liners
- Make your favorite vanilla cupcake recipe. (I use Magnolia Bakery’s)
- Separate the batter into 3 bowls
- Add red dye to one bowl, green to one bowl and yellow to the last bowl
- Add one spoonful of each color to each cupcake liner
- Swirl design in using a toothpick or wooden kitchen skewer
- Bake according you your chosen cupcake recipe
- Allow to cool in cupcake pan for 10 minutes, turn out and let cool completely on wire rack
Frosting:
- 2 sticks of unsalted butter at room temperature
- 4-6 cups confectioners sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 tablespoon of whole milk
- Food coloring (whichever color you prefer)
- Beat the butter on the medium speed of an electric mixer until smooth
- Add the sugar alternating with the milk and vanilla
- Add the food coloring of your choice
- Beat until it reaches a spreading consistency
Happy little cupcake army.
Oooh!! I’ve seen recipes for rainbow (cup)cakes with vibrant colors like this, but they included the different colored cake layered on top of each other. The tie-dyeing of these cupcakes is adorable!
So I made the rainbow cupcakes with the magnolia vanilla cupcake recipe and they turned out delightful! for the first time, i didn’t try the frosting, i went with store bought so that will be my next challenge. so fun though! great recipe.
Hi Kim! So glad you tried the recipe and enjoyed it. If you have picture send one my way and I will post it on the blog.