Mardi Gras Cupcakes

Ready in : 45 mins

Mardi Gras Cupcakes requires around 45 minutes from start to finish. One portion of this dish contains roughly 3g of protein, 29g of fat, and a total of 511 calories. For $1.12 per serving, you get a dessert that serves 14. 6 people found this recipe to be delicious and satisfying. A mixture of powdered sugar, cake flour, oil olive oil, and a handful of other ingredients are all it takes to make this recipe so flavorful. It is a budget friendly recipe for fans of American food. It is brought to you by Foodista. Overall, this recipe earns a not so amazing spoonacular score of 12%.

Ingredients

baking powder

1 teaspoon

baking soda

2 teaspoons

buttermilk

0.5 cup

cake flour

1.25 cups

malibu coconut rum

1 teaspoon

eggs

2

purple gel food coloring

14 servings

gel food coloring

14 servings

gel food coloring

14 servings

oil olive oil

0.5 cup

powdered sugar

5 cups

salt

14 servings

sugar

0.75 cup

butter

2 cups

vanilla extract

1 teaspoon

Cooking in Steps

1
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.In a medium bowl, add cake flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Stir together with whisk, and set aside.In the bowl of an electric mixer, add eggs, sugar, vanilla, rum, and oil; beat on medium speed for about 30 seconds. Reduce mixer speed to low and slowly add about half of the flour mixture.

baking powder

baking soda

cake flour

vanilla

all purpose flour

sugar

egg

salt

cooking oil

rum

hand mixer

blender

whisk

bowl

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2
Add half of the buttermilk, then the rest of the flour and the rest of the buttermilk; beat until combined.Separate batter into bowls and color with gel food coloring in yellow, purple, and green.

food color

buttermilk

all purpose flour

bowl
3
Pour a little of each batter into lined cupcake. Fill liners a little over half full.

cupcakes
4
Bake cupcakes 12-14 minutes.

cupcakes

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5
Remove from oven and allow to cool completely before frosting.For Frosting

frosting

oven
6
Using the paddle attachment of your stand mixer, whip the butter on medium-high speed for 2 minutes till butter is soft and fluffy. Reduce the speed to low and gradually add the powdered sugar. Once all of the powdered sugar is incorporated, increase the speed to medium-high and add the vanilla, mix well. Whip at medium-high speed until light and fluffy, about 2 minutes, scraping the bowl as needed. To color frosting just whip with purple, yellow, and green gel food coloring individually.To swirl the frosting, simply put each color of frosting on each side of bag and pipe. I used a 1M tip from Wilton.

powdered sugar

food color

frosting

vanilla

butter

stand mixer

bowl