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Frosting Magic: DIY Swirled Cupcakes

I am SO excited to share this fun tip with you!
 After a whole lot of trial and error, lots of reading and quite a few big messes, I've finally figured out how to make swirled frosting in the least complicated way possible.


What's even better? 
The cleanup is a breeze!


I start with a butter cream frosting which is basically two sticks of butter, four cups of powdered sugar, a splash of good vanilla extract, a pinch of Kosher salt and a few tablespoons of heavy cream or whole milk. *For a rich cream cheese frosting, swap replace one stick of butter with an 8 oz. bar of room temperature cream cheese.
 Mix it all together just like my sweet little sous-chef does below:



 Separate your frosting evenly into two bowls and add color to one or both. I usually swear by Wilton's colored gel like this (and, by the way, this is a fantastic deal for these little pots...they go a really long way and are usually just shy of $3 at Michaels):
Anyway, in this case, I only had a super dark forest green, so I used regular food coloring.
When the frosting was the right color green, I spread it out in a log form onto a piece of Saran Wrap then added the white frosting alongside it. 
I sealed the edges then twisted the top and bottom of the Saran Wrap. 
First I fitted my pastry bag with a Wilton 1 tip.
I snipped the tip off of one end of the Saran Wrap then carefully dropped it into my pastry bag with some help from my sweet sous. 
I tied the top of the Saran Wrap so the frosting wouldn't squirt out the top.
Then I used my normal swirling motion to frost each mini-cupcake. 

When you're done, the Saran Wrap slides right out of the pastry bag- all you need to do is a quick rinse!

I get a lot of questions about exactly which tools I prefer for baking...
I love Wilton's cake decorating tools- they are super easy to use and clean, and they are not at all pricey!
Here's a basic set of tips and disposable bags.

 Once you get really proficient at decorating, I'd definitely recommend upgrading your bags to the plastic kind like this one:



I just need to take a second and brag about this little lady.
She frosted probably half of the cupcakes with very little help from me! Basically I just steadied her hand and squeezed, she did the rest...
Her game plan is to become a pastry chef "so I can eat every single treat". 
Gotta love a girl who knows what she wants!
I pay her in sugar.
Everyone has a price.

Yes, I know, we are heathens in this house!
And we love it.

Happy Weekend and Happy Spring!

3 comments:

  1. What a fun baking day! I love frosting, too!

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  2. You have a TOTALLY adorable "boss"! :-) I'll have to remember that for our upcoming birthday!

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  3. That's too cool and definitely something to do with The Grands. Gracias!

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