Difficutly: very easy
Time: 5 Min
Portion: 1 serving
Ingredients:
Makes about 15 cupcakes
INGREDIENTS
For chocolate cupcakes
1/2 cup (1 stick) butter, room temp
1-1/4 cups sugar
2 large eggs, room temp
3/4 cup flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1/2 cup milk
1 teaspoons vanilla
For “school colors” buttercream
2 sticks butter
7 cups powdered sugar, sifted
1/4 cup milk
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/4 cup cocoa powder
blue and yellow food coloring or paste, to desired shade (I used Wilton royal blue and golden yellow)
Directions:
To make cupcakes—
Preheat oven to 375F degrees.
Beat butter until softened. Add sugar and beat until light and fluffy, about 3 minutes. Add eggs, one at a time, beating until well combined.
Measure the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and cocoa powder into a small sized bowl and whisk to combine. Measure out the milk and vanilla and stir to combine.
Add about a third of the dry ingredients to the butter/sugar and beat to combine. Add about a half of the milk/vanilla and beat to combine. Continue adding, alternating between dry and wet and finishing with the dry.
Scoop batter into cupcake cups about 2/3’s full. Turn oven down to 350 degrees and bake cupcakes for about 22-25 minutes or until a cake tester comes out clean.
Cool completely before frosting.
To make frosting—
Beat butter until creamy, scrape bowl. Add 5 cups of sifted powdered sugar, milk, and vanilla, beat until combined. Add more powdered sugar until you get to the consistency you want (not too stiff so that its hard to pipe)
Take out half of the buttercream and using blue food coloring, tint to desired shade.
Add yellow food coloring, tint to desired shade, to the remaining half and beat to combine.
To assemble cupcake—
Fill pastry bag with both the blue and yellow buttercream frosting, one on opposite side from the other. Do not mix them together to keep the colors separate until you pipe onto the cupcake. Even though I use a 1M piping tip, you can use your favorite tip to get the frosting affect you want.
[NOTES: I think the next time I do this affect for a big order I need to buy bigger piping bags or use new bags after every \”refill\” b/c the blue and yellow frosting started mixing together and creating \”green\”. Ooops!]