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Red, White and Blue fireworks cupcakes

Published: June 6, 2019 | Updated: January 3, 2020 | By Ashlee

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These 4th of July cupcakes are sweetly patriotic! It’s hard to say whether it’s funner to frost or to eat these firework cupcakes!

red, white and blue cupcakes

How I made these patriotic treats

I usually work with fondant, but there are times when frosting is a better fit!  I love my grass tip, so when the kids and I decided to make cupcakes for our treat of the week it seemed the perfect time to try out these cupcakes (I’d seen a picture of something like this YEARS ago and always wanted to try it!)

I baked these marbleized vanilla cupcakes and made red white and blue frosting (I made buttercream to get the right shade of white, and because cream cheese frosting is too soft for these strands)

We ended up with a few different combinations, and the kids really went to town for theirs!

So a fun treat that my kids loved! What patriotic items are you making these days?

Just take me to the cupcake Recipe already!

If you’d rather skip my tips and tricks for 4th of July cupcakes, along with links to 4th of July food and other holidays and get straight to these firework cupcakes – simply scroll to the bottom of the page where you can find the printable recipe card.

4th of July cupcakes

TIPS AND TRICKS FOR THE PERFECT CHEESECAKE WITH NO CRACKING

-By swapping out the vanilla, you can make any flavor

-Add small amounts of the color at a time for better marbliezation

-Only swirl once to prevent the colors from muddying up and turning your 4th of July food into a gross brown.

-Frost these cupcakes outside-in. For the first few I started in the center working my way out… it was a total fail!

-Squeeze from the base of your piping bag, not next to the tip.

-Then keep squeezing while you pull away and then STOP squeezing and pull off.  If you keep squeezing you’ll get even longer strands that are to heavy and fall flat OR you’ll rip the strands off at the base and get short stubby grass!

-Go all the way around once and twice for a full stripe of color… (if you want to do more than one stripe in each color stick with just one row)

-OR do one of each color and fill in more rows, I kind of dig this one even more!

4th of July cupcake recipes

To make these cupcakes you’ll need

  • cupcake pan
  • piping bags
  • grass piping tips

Red, White and Blue firework cupcakes

If you love these 4th of July foods as much as I do, I’d love a 5 star review. Be sure to share on social media and tag me if you make it @ashleemariecakes! If you want to stay updated on new recipes sign up for my newsletter and join my Facebook Group!

firework cupcake recipe

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4th of July cupcakes

These cupcakes are sweetly patriotic! It's hard to say whether it's funner to frost or to eat them!
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Prep Time: 25 minutes
Cook Time: 15 minutes
Total Time: 40 minutes
Servings: 24 cupcakes
Calories: 160kcal
Author: Ashlee Marie
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Ingredients

  • 2 1/3 C cake flour
  • 1 ½ C sugar
  • 2 1/3 tsp baking powder
  • 1/2 tsp baking soda
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 6 Tbsp butter softened
  • 3 lrg eggs
  • 1/2 C Greek yogurt or sour cream
  • 6 Tbsp mayonnaise
  • 1 Tbsp vanilla
  • 1 C whole milk
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Instructions

  • Preheat the oven to 350
  • In a large bowl mix the cake flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda and salt
  • Add butter and beat to a fine crumb
  • In a separate bowl whisk the eggs, yogurt, mayo and vanilla until smooth
  • Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and beat until just combined
  • Add milk and mix on low speed until just combined
  • Divide the batter into 3 bowls – dye 1 red, 1 blue and keep 1 white
  • Spoon into cupcake liners, alternating between colors, swirl with a toothpick if desired
  • Bake 350 14- 18 mins

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Nutrition

Calories: 160kcal | Carbohydrates: 22g | Protein: 3g | Fat: 7g | Saturated Fat: 3g | Cholesterol: 31mg | Sodium: 136mg | Potassium: 88mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 13g | Vitamin A: 135IU | Calcium: 43mg | Iron: 0.3mg
Did you make this recipe?Mention @ashleemariecakes or tag #makesomeawesome and I’ll share your image in my Instagram stories!
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  1. Jonie @Just Between Friends

    June 22, 2012 at 7:28 am

    Love these, Ashlee! They remind me of a firework so I think they are the perfect patriotic treat!

    Reply
    • Ashlee

      July 10, 2012 at 1:41 am

      Thanks!!! I was hoping they’d look all firework inspired!

  2. Katie B. of HousewifeHowTos.com

    June 22, 2012 at 5:25 pm

    These are wonderful! I’m glad you showed the “Fail” from starting in the center, or I’d have blown off the instructions and started there myself. Looking forward to making these for 4th of July. Oooh, and at Easter I bet they’d be cute with green grass frosting and a little speckled malted egg in the center!

    Reply
    • Ashlee

      July 10, 2012 at 1:42 am

      your WELCOME! sometimes we learn as much if not more from our fails as we do from successes! It makes so much sense to start in the center, I actually did half a dozen that way before switching to the outside in way!

  3. marissa

    June 22, 2012 at 7:04 pm

    these are super cute. I have a feeling like my successes would be closer to your fail haha

    marissa
    http://raegunwear.blogspot.com

    Reply
    • Ashlee

      July 10, 2012 at 1:43 am

      HA! still worth trying, the nice thing about the grass tip is even mess ups are easy to fix! go for it!

  4. kelley @ Miss Information

    June 23, 2012 at 8:55 am

    These are great and thanks for showing the fail so I don’t make the same mistake!

    Reply
    • Ashlee

      July 10, 2012 at 1:44 am

      your so welcome! I totally did half a dozen entirely that way and was so unhappy with them and FINALLY decided to try from the outside in!

  5. Katie Clark

    June 26, 2013 at 9:19 am

    These are SO cute and look like something I could totally make. And I really am terrible at cupcake decorating!

    Reply
    • Ashlee

      July 1, 2013 at 3:07 am

      HA! I’m sure you do just fine, a good frosting recipe and the right tips make all the difference!

  6. Raquel

    June 27, 2014 at 10:25 am

    I used cream cheese frosting and just colored it for the frosting.

    Reply
    • Ashlee

      July 26, 2014 at 12:37 am

      Mmmmm tasty, I love cream cheese frosting!

  7. Brenda Etter

    June 18, 2019 at 11:14 pm

    5 stars
    Where do you get liquid egg whites?

    Reply
    • Ashlee Marie

      February 2, 2020 at 8:57 pm

      at the grocery store in the refrigerated section with the other eggs, usually on the top shelf.

  8. sophie offie

    June 28, 2019 at 7:59 am

    What piping tips did you use?

    Reply
    • Ashlee Marie

      February 2, 2020 at 8:58 pm

      the grass tip https://amzn.to/2vN8wMB

  9. organic mom

    July 3, 2019 at 6:07 pm

    Hi what size tip did you use? Im sure I wont get the reply in time bc its a holiday lol but Im about to wind this & had no clue about tips.
    Thank you!
    Love this & cant wait to try 😃

    Reply
    • Ashlee Marie

      February 2, 2020 at 8:58 pm

      it’s just a normal grass tip https://amzn.to/2vN8wMB

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