Sunday, February 28

"Tie Dye" Mini Vanilla Cupcakes

These cupcakes were inspired by Olivia, this 10 year old I babysit. She loves anything tie dye. We even have a tie dye a t-shirt day every summer.
So on that note I brought the idea into my kitchen.
At first I didn't even know what I was doing but soon enough I was a girl with a plan!
Dividing the icing into small portions, adding food coloring and "tie dying" my vanilla cupcakes!!!
I had a lot of fun making this cupcakes and it came out great!!!  Hope you try this recipe!







Ingredients:

Cupcakes:

2 cups of all purpose flour
2 tsp of baking powder
1 tsp of salt
3 eggs
1 cup of sugar
1 cup of butter (one stick)
1 cup of milk 
1 tsp of good vanilla
1 tsp of lemon zest (optional)

Icing:

2 cups of unsalted butter
2 cups of confectioners sugar
1 tbsp of clear vanilla
2 tbsp of milk
3 or more different food coloring (I use powder)

How to:
Cupcakes

First separate the yolks form the egg whites,
beat the egg whites till foamy (not too stiff) and set aside
In a small bowl mix first 3 dry ingredients and set aside
Then in a bigger bowl, beat together the butter, sugar and egg yolks 
Add the vanilla and lemon zest (if using)
Add the milk and fold in the flour mixture
Then when totally combined fold in the egg whites


Spoon into cupcakes tin lined with cupcake baking paper


Bake for 20 min or until golden
remove from tin immediately and let it cool in a rack


Golden fluffiness aka perfect!



How to:
Icing

Beat the sugar and the butter until creamy
Add vanilla and milk beat just to combine (be careful not to over beat)
Spoon the icing into smaller bowls and add the food coloring beating a bit more to combine.


(My purple came out weird because I added too much blue into my red icing but gave a fun look to the cakes!)

Using a small spoon top the cupcakes with a small amount of each color of the icing side by side


Get a clean cupcake and sandwich the icing pressing and rotating the 2 cupcakes to mix the colors so it looks tie dye
Then run a knife over the icing to make it look pretty.
add some colored sprinkles (optional) and enjoy!

10 comments:

sergio said...

Adorei Tattiii.The Blog looks really cool. The goddies too. Next step is your own shop or bakery. Send me some samples...hehe.

Tati M said...

Thank you Mattaaa!
rsrsr
bjoo

belle de jour said...

hummm... yummy!

belle de jour said...

ah, q fofa, obrigada!
dei uma enjoada de fazer o mint popsicle, mas quem sabe um dia eu volto, né..
o sergio tinha comentado q uma amiga dele lia, legal te "conhecer"!
agora vou visitá-la sempre, pra ver as delícias por aqui.

bjs.

Leka said...

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa eu queroooooooo cupcakeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
manda uns pra ca amiga!!!!
tao lindos!!!!!

Tati M said...

How about you come over and we make cupcakes??? hehe

The Experimental Cook said...

This is one very fun cupcake, lovely for birthday parties.

Tati M said...

Big hit with the kids I babysit.
We made them again and we found peace sign confetti. It looked great.

Lisa said...

Wow, those cupcakes are so neat. This sounds like a treat that kids would absolutely enjoy. Thanks for linking this up to Sweets for a Saturday.

{cuppakim} said...

Love it. That seems so easy - and REALLY fun. I love the idea of using a clean cupcake to spread the color, and gets another one frosted at the same time. Brilliant!