Firecracker Red White and Blue Cupcakes Recipe with a surprise inside!

Can someone please explain to me how we are already a couple of weeks away from Fourth of July! Seriously wasn't it just Valentine's Day....My parents called and asked me what we were doing for the 4th and I told them I had no clue it was a month or two away. My dear Mom had to remind me that it is actually only a couple of weeks away and we had plans. OOPS! I swear this year is just going so quickly! I am so excited to share these Firecracker Red White and Blue Cupcakes!

I mean seriously how cute are these cupcakes.

Firecracker Red, White & Blue Cupcakes

Star Ingredients:

½ C unsalted butter, room temp
2 egg whites, room temp
2 eggs, room temp
2 C flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
½ teaspoon salt
¼ teaspoon baking soda
¾ C buttermilk
1 ½ C sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Red & blue gel food coloring
Star cookie cutter
A small circle to make the hole in the center of the star.
Pop Rocks candy (4-6 bags)

Star Directions:

-Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
-Prepare three small cookie sheets by spraying them with PAM Spray.
-Using a medium bowl, whisk flour, baking powder, salt, and baking soda.
-In a separate large mixing bowl, beat the butter with an electric mixer on medium to high for 30 seconds.
-Add sugar and vanilla extract to the butter and beat until combined.
-Add egg whites, and then eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition.
-Alternate adding the flour mixture and buttermilk to the butter mixture, beating on low speed until everything is mixed together. Divide the cake batter into three bowls.
- Bowl #1...   add several drops of red gel food coloring... Stir until the red coloring is well blended.
-Bowl #2...    add several drops of blue gel food coloring... Stir until the blue coloring is well blended.
-Bowl #3...  this bowl remains the original white.
-Pour each batter onto a separate cookie sheet.
-Bake at 350 degrees for 10-15 minutes. Check to make sure the cake batter is thoroughly baked.
- Allow the three cakes to cool on the in the cookie sheet until cool completely.
-Using the star cookie cutter begin cutting stars in each of the three colors.  Make sure that each cake color has the same number of stars.
-Using a small frosting tip make a hole in the white and blue stars.  Try to make the hole in the same spot in each star.
-Make a stack of stars starting the red on the bottom then stack the white star the blue on top.  If they don't stay together use a tiny amount of frosting to hold them together.

Frosting:

Frosting Ingredients:

2 C powdered sugar
½ C unsalted butter (sweet cream), soft
3 tablespoon heavy whipping cream

Frosting Directions:

-Mix soften butter in mixing bowl.
-Add powdered sugar ½ C at a time.
-Mix until the ingredients form small pebbles
-Add 1 tablespoon of heavy whipping cream if frosting is not creaming.
-Mix until it forms peaks.
-If it doesn't form peaks add ½ C more powdered sugar and mix well... until you can take a spoonful of the frosting turning the spoon upside down and the frosting stays on the spoon.
-Spoon the frosting into a pastry bag with a medium size tip....
-Fill the hole in the middle of the white and blue cake stars with ⅓-1/2 pack of Pop Rocks.
- Top it off with a dollop of white frosting on top.

Heat resistant potholders - A couple of years ago we had a fire scare when we didn't realize we had turned a burner on and a cloth potholder caught fire. Thankfully we walked by the kitchen and saw the smoke and were able to get it out ourselves. Since then we have only used these heat-resistant potholders.

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Red White and Blue Cupcakes!

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Author: Tammilee Tips

Ingredients

• Star Ingredients:
• ½ C Unsalted Butter room temp
• 2 Egg Whites room temp
• 2 Eggs room temp
• 2 C All Purpose Flour
• 1 teaspoon Baking Powder
• ½ teaspoon Salt
• ¼ teaspoon baking soda
• ¾ C buttermilk
• 1 ½ C White Sugar
• 1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract
• Red & blue gel food coloring
• Star cookie cutter
• Small circle to make the hole in the center of the star.
• Pop Rocks candy 4-6 bags
• Frosting Ingredients:
• 2 C Confectioners Powdered Sugar
• ½ C Unsalted Butter sweet cream, soft
• 3 Tablespoon Heavy Whipping Cream

Instructions

• Star Directions:
• -Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• -Prepare three small cookie sheets by spraying them with PAM Spray.
• -Using a medium bowl, whisk flour, baking powder, salt, and baking soda.
• -In a separate large mixing bowl, beat the butter with an electric mixer on medium to high for 30 seconds.
• -Add sugar and vanilla extract to the butter and beat until combined.
• -Add egg whites, and then eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition.
• -Alternate adding the flour mixture and buttermilk to the butter mixture, beating on low speed until everything is mixed together. Divide the cake batter into three bowls.
• - Bowl #1... add several drops of red gel food coloring... Stir until the red coloring is well blended.
• -Bowl #2... add several drop of blue gel food coloring... Stir until the blue coloring is well blended.
• -Bowl #3... this bowl remains the original white.
• -Pour each batter onto a separate cookie sheet.
• -Bake at 350 degrees for 10-15 minutes. Check to make sure the cake batter is thoroughly baked.
• - Allow the three cakes to cool in the in the cookie sheet until cool completely .
• -Using the star cookie cutter begin cutting stars in each of the three colors. Make sure that each cake color has the same number of stars.
• -Using a small frosting tip make a hole in the white and blue stars. Try to make the hole in the same spot in each star.
• -Make a stack of stars starting the red on the bottom then stack the white star the blue on top. If they don't stay together use a tiny amount of frosting to hold them together.
• Frosting Directions:
• -Mix soften butter in mixing bowl.
• -Add powdered sugar ½ C at a time.
• -Mix until the ingredients form small pebbles
• -Add 1 tablespoon of heavy whipping cream if frosting is not creaming.
• -Mix until it form peaks.
• -If it doesn't form peaks add ½ C more powdered sugar and mix well... until you can take a spoonful of the frosting turning the spoon upside down and the frosting stays on the spoon.
• -Spoon the frosting into a pastry bag with a medium size tip....
• -Fill the hole in the middle of the white and blue cake stars with ⅓-1/2 pack of Pop Rocks.
• - Top it off with a dollop of white frosting on top.

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