Instructions
- Step 1: Bake vanilla cupcakes Bake cupcakes according to your favorite recipe or with a cake mix.
- Step 2: Make vanilla frosting While the cupcakes are cooling, combine the sugar, butter, and vanilla in a mixing bowl; then add the milk. Beat until very well blended and fluffy, adding more milk if necessary.
- Step 3: Color the frosting Divide the frosting in half, and add a few drops of red food coloring to one batch. Keep adding coloring until you get the desired shade.
- Step 4: Pipe on the frosting Pipe alternating stripes of red and white frosting on the cupcakes, once they have cooled completely.
- TIP: As an alternative, ice the cupcakes in white frosting and pipe on the red stripes.
- Step 5: Cut stars Roll out ready-to-use blue rolled fondant and, using a mini star-shaped cookie cutter, cut out stars. Center one on each cupcake. Enjoy your patriotic treats!
- FACT: A popular dessert in colonial Massachusetts was Marlborough pudding, a precursor to apple pie, which had a custard-like filling made from applesauce, eggs, butter, and lemon juice.
You Will Need
- Cake recipe or mix
- Box of confectioners’ sugar
- 1 stick unsalted
- room temperature butter
- 1 1/4 tsp. vanilla extract
- 4 tsp. milk
- Red food coloring
- Blue rolled fondant
- Cupcake baking pans
- Cupcake liners
- Electric mixer
- Pastry bags and piping tips
- Star-shaped cookie cutter
