Delicious Red white and blue cupcakes with patriotic theme made with vanilla cupcakes colored in red , white and blue. Perfect for the celebrations.
If you are looking for simple and fun filled desserts for this July 4th then here is it. Simple Red white and blue cupcakes made vanilla extract layered with different colors, I used food color to create red white and blue. These are easy to put together and ready within 30 minutes.
What we are looking in simple vanilla cupcakes is it should be moist, and taste perfect and sweetness needs to balanced well with frosting and cupcakes.
Vanilla cakes and I do not have a good connection until now. Means I have tried a lot of vanilla cakes, however most of them turned out to be brick dry, some are okay. None of them satisfied my taste buds. If you ask me about vanilla cake it is simple just mix flour, eggs and vanilla, then why is it so hard to get the right taste? You are right, but recipes I tried are not good. I look for moist crumb which was lacking in most of the recipes. I tried an eggless vanilla cake recipe; it turned out to be good. I will blog about that in the near future. Eggless cake doesn’t hold the frosting as I wished for, so again I was in hunt for a perfect vanilla cake recipe for my kid’s birthdays. I am planning on baking on my own creation.
After numerous searches again Google helped me to find this recipe. Uniqueness of this recipe is it has cake flour and All-purpose flour. I used butter and egg with vanilla the star ingredient. Since my daughter wants a blue cupcake, I thought I will make one for this July 4th. I made this fire cracker cupcake with red, white and blue color. The Inspiration I took it from this recipe.
Frosting I used is from my Wilton class by substituting half of frosting with butter as teacher told us for butter cream frosting, you need some shortening to hold the shape, butter alone can’t do that job perfectly.
I think I end my search for perfect vanilla cake. Now I need to find a perfect chocolate cake. I will do that in the meantime.
Here comes the recipe, try it, I can give you assurance it won’t let fail you.
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Red White and Blue Cupcakes
Delicious patriotic cupcakes made with vanilla cupcakes colored in red , white and blue. Perfect for the celebrations.
Servings: 3 servings
Calories: 1005kcal
Ingredients
- ½ cup cake flour
- ¼ cup all purpose flour
- ½ cup sugar
- ¾ teaspoon baking powder
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ¼ cup butter room temperature, cut into ½ inch cubes
- 1 eggs
- ¼ cup+3 tablespoon milk
- ½ teaspoon vanilla
- Red blue icing color(gel color)
- For butter cream
- ¼ cup solid vegetable shortening
- ¼ cup ½ stick butter or margarine softened
- ½ teaspoon clear vanilla extract
- 2 cups sifted confectioners' sugar approximately ½ lb.
- 1 tablespoons milk
- Makes:
- About 1 ½ cups of icing.
Instructions
- Directions for cake
- Preheat oven to 350° F and line cupcake pan with cupcake liners.
- In bowl of stand mixer add the flour, sugar, baking powder and salt and stir together using paddle attachment for about a minute. Enough to get them nice and combined.
- With mixer on low, drop in butter, a few cubes at a time continuing until all butter is in and mixer resembles coarse sand.
- In a small bowl mix milk, egg and vanilla.
- With mixer still on low slowly pour in milk, egg and vanilla. Turn mixer to medium and beat for 2 minutes until batter is smooth, scraping sides of bowl as needed.
- Divide batter into three equal parts; add one portion with red and other with blue icing color. Leave the third one colorless. Mix well so that colors gets combined well.
- Fill liners ⅔ full, with heaping 1 tablespoon red color first and then white color and finally add blue color batter and bake for 22 minutes until centers are set and toothpick comes out clean.
- Allow to cool completely before frosting.
- Directions for Vanilla butter cream frosting
- In large bowl, cream shortening and butter with electric mixer. Add vanilla. Gradually add sugar, one cup at a time, beating well on medium speed. Scrape sides and bottom of bowl often. When all sugar has been mixed in, icing will appear dry. Add milk and beat at medium speed until light and fluffy. Keep bowl covered with a damp cloth until ready to use.
- For best results, keep icing bowl in refrigerator when not in use. Refrigerated in an airtight container, this icing can be stored 2 weeks. Rewhip before using
Notes
Recipe of cake adapted from here which in turn adapted from Back in the Day Bakery
Recipe of butter cream adapted from here
Nutrition
Calories: 1005kcal | Carbohydrates: 137g | Protein: 6g | Fat: 50g | Saturated Fat: 24g | Cholesterol: 136mg | Sodium: 491mg | Potassium: 167mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 112g | Vitamin A: 1025IU | Calcium: 77mg | Iron: 1mg
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This is Swathi ( Dr. Ambujom Saraswathy Ph.D) from Zesty South Indian Kitchen who loves to explore cuisines from all over the world. Whenever possible I try to to give an Indian touch to several of the world cuisine, and has weakness for freshly baked bread. All the recipes you see here are created by me and approved after taste-test by my family.
Gloria says
Love these little celebration cupcakes. Perfect for any party. I know they would be a hit with guests.
Reeni Pisano says
What festive holiday cupcakes Swathi! Very cute. I'm glad you found the perfect cupcake! We all need to try them now!
Suja Manoj says
Beautiful colorful cupcakes,love the frosting.
Shobha says
Lovely cup cakes .. so colourful... I'm sure kids will love them..
radha says
The cupcakes look perfect as you say they are !!
Hope all fine in the household now. Always a source of worry.
Kaveri Venkatesh says
Cupcakes look wonderful Swathi...on seeing them my daugher is asking me to make for her
Peachy Adarne says
You must've been so nervous about that penny! I know I would.
These are the prettiest vanilla cupcakes!
Peachy @ The Peach Kitchen
Kalyan Panja says
Just mouthwatering....looks delicious!
Kalyan Panja says
Just mouthwatering....looks delicious!
Srimathi Mani says
Oh Lord Swathi! You seem to be having your hands full with the 2 kids. I can almost see the whole thing in my mind. Good job for hanging in there and finding the zest to prepare some awesome looking vanilla cupcakes. Been away from blog surfing for over a month with summer vacation and guests. I am playing catch up so some late comments from me.
Hema says
They look so gorgeous and colorful, kids would love this..
CHITRA says
Wow , loved it a lot. Will try for sure. Please tell me some replacement for egg ..
Anu says
Wonderful tri color cupcakes
Jaleela Banu says
Amazing and looks delicious
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Lovely colorful cupcake ....Great place. Happy to follow..will be happy if you
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Achu says
Amazing dear 🙂 So wonderful dear
Sandhya Ramakrishnan says
Cupcakes look awesome Swathi! Like you said, i still have not found that perfect vanilla cake recipe. Let me give this one a shot. Did the penny make its way out yet? Take care!
Kitchen Queen says
Hope you hv found your penny now and you should call the kid's mom and complaint about biting. Both sides of the parents has to know. As always cupcakes are awesome.
Sangeetha Priya says
Love this tri color cupcakes Swathi and hope your kids are feeling well now...
Janaki Garcia says
they look so colorful and tempting to eat.Yum 🙂
Sebeena Loyd says
Swathi, how is your kid now? Loved your colorful cupcakes.
Manjula Bharath says
wow thats an cute and delicious cupcake 🙂 perfect Dish for independence day 🙂
Arthy shama says
How is he now Swathi? Cup-cakes are bright, colourful and looks delecious too!
Swathi Iyer says
He is fine Arthy,
sushmita pandit says
Those cupcakes luks awesome.....nice recipe..
Swathi Iyer says
Thanks sushmita
Meena Selvakumaran says
bookmarked this recipe.i too look for crumbly cake.beautiful made.
Swathi Iyer says
Yes Meena I too look for moist cake.
Gajus kitchen says
looks gorgeous and perfect
Swathi Iyer says
Thanks
Saranya Balaji says
such a lovely combination...u made it perfect..
Swathi Iyer says
Thanks saranya
Amrita Vishal says
Hope your kids are better now. Loved the tricolour cupcakes.
Gujarati Zaika says
Looks super yummy...
Swathi Iyer says
Thanks
anusha praveen says
So in tune with the 4th of July! The cupcakes look so cute and adorable
Swathi Iyer says
Yes you got it right.
Gheza e shiriin says
The cupcakes look yummy.
Hope both the kids are ok now
Swathi Iyer says
Thanks Humi, yes they are fine now.
Sona S says
perfectly made cupcakes. looks yum!
sangeetha pn says
Looks so cute n beautiful.. Definitely they will be yummy too.. 🙂
Swathi Iyer says
Thanks Sangeetha
Rafeeda AR says
oh wow...such lovely looking cupcakes... i'm sure it tasted heavenly... 🙂
Swathi Iyer says
Thanks Rafeeda
kitchen queen says
tempting superb cute cup cakes.
Swathi Iyer says
Thanks Indu
Veena Theagarajan says
nice colorful cupcake
Swathi Iyer says
Thanks
Ramya Krishnamurthy says
colorful yummy cake akka.parcel some to India akka
Swathi Iyer says
Sure Ramya, If I can I will.
Divya Shivaraman says
loved that colour combo...perfect for july 4th fun
Swathi Iyer says
Thanks, yes I made it for 4th of July.
Hamaree Rasoi says
So cute and delicious looking cupcakes. Excellent preparation.
Deepa
Swathi Iyer says
Thanks
Mahi says
Looks like u r having a rough day! Take care of the kids.. Cupcakes are bright n beautiful!
Swathi Iyer says
Thanks Mahi, yes it got me almost heart beating very high.
Rita Bose says
These cupcakes are really amazing!So colourful,looks yummy and quite delicious.Nice clicks too!
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Swathi Iyer says
Thanks
Gayathri Ramanan says
don't worry swathi..ingestion of foreign bodies is common problem in young children..nothing will happen to your kid..it will come out ..you can give banana..it will help your kid I guess..3 yrs back, my neighbor kid swallowed safety pin, it came out, but nothing happened to the kid..
cupcakes looks really yummy and colorful..love the first click..
Swathi Iyer says
Thanks Gayathri, He is fine now, playing eating and drinking. I am looking for the penny.
Claudia says
You have the patience and stick-to-itiveness to achieve perfection.
Swathi Iyer says
Thanks Claudia, I can't leave a recipe without achieving the result I look for.
Swathi Iyer says
Thanks