Bake July 4th cupcakes to help celebrate 4th of July festivities with family and friends. Get creative with your 4th of July cupcake recipes by serving non-traditional, out-of-the-ordinary delicious and imaginative cupcakes! For an extra special touch, bake the cupcakes in silver foil cups, and serve them on silver platters!
For inspiration, check out these 4th of July cupcake ideas:
Fruity and Fun: Display the traditional 4th of July colors, red, white and blue, by making Fourth of July cupcakes. Bake traditional vanilla cupcakes, and frost them with whipped vanilla frosting. Add in the colors red, white and blue by decorating the tops of the cupcakes with either blueberries, raspberries, strawberries or a combination. Arrange the raspberries so that they are upside down on the cupcakes. Place the blueberries in circular designs on the frosting. Slice strawberries and put in the center.
Fourth of July Surprise: Give guests an unexpected, but delicious surprise by baking traditional vanilla cupcake and filling them with a strawberry center. To fill the cupcakes, place strawberry filling in a decorating bag and attach a round decorating tip. Insert the tip in the top of the cupcake and squeeze out a bit of filling. Once the filling is in place, frost the cupcakes with whipped vanilla frosting and top them with slivers of strawberries.
Colorful Cupcakes: Bake colorful Fourth of July cupcakes by cooking red, white and blue cupcakes. Start with traditional white cupcake mix and divide the mix into three separate bowls. Mix red food coloring and red strawberry preserves into one bowl. Mix blue food coloring and blueberry preserves into a second bowl. Leave the third bowl as a traditional white cupcake mix. Bake a combination of cupcakes that are all red, all white and all blue. Once finished baking and cooling, cut each cupcake into thirds. Each layer should be circular in shape. Combine red, white and blue layers together, and make them stick by using vanilla frosting in between each layer. Frost the top layer with vanilla frosting, and decorate them with red and blue sprinkles.
American Flag: American Flag cupcakes are a simple and easy idea for 4th of July cupcakes. The end goal is to arrange all of the cupcakes to look like an American Flag. To start, bake 100 vanilla or chocolates cupcakes. First separate out 20 cupcakes. Divide the remaining 80 cupcakes into two groups of 40 cupcakes. Frost 40 cupcakes with white frosting, 40 cupcakes with red frosting and 20 cupcakes with blue frosting. Arrange the cupcakes on a large rectangular platter, and start from the bottom up. First place 10 red cupcakes in a horizontal line; next place 10 white cupcakes in a horizontal line directly above the red cupcakes. Continue this pattern with a total of 50 cupcakes. Next, arrange all of the blue cupcakes in a square (five cupcakes going across, four cupcakes going up) in the upper left hand corner of the platter. Fill in the rest of the rectangular platter with the remaining red and white cupcakes following the same red and white striped pattern. As a finishing touch, put white candy stars on top of the blue cupcakes!
In addition to the cupcake ideas above, you can also decorate your July 4th cupcakes with patriotic baking cups, patriotic cupcake toppers, and serve on patriotic serving trays. Mini American flags on toothpicks are also perfect to stick into any July 4th cupcake recipe.
Finally, be sure to set the stage for your event with gorgeous July 4th invitationsonline. Customize your favorite design, send via text or email, and gather RSVPs in minutes!
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