This Blue Velvet Cupcakes Recipe is perfect with vanilla buttercream icing. They’re perfect for a Disney Frozen party!
Food coloring and I are not friends. You know that I love to cook and bake, but that darn food coloring trips me up all the time! Not only is it hard for me to get the exact color I want in my baked goods, but it is also a mess to clean up!!
Today my plan was to make this delicious Blue Velvet Cupcakes recipe with Buttercream Icing inspired by Dawn Ultra – which also comes in a very pretty blue color. Well, my cupcakes ended up more a shade of icky blue-green and the more I tried to fix the batter color, the worse it got!!
But, I think I was able to salvage the cupcakes by decorating the yummy buttercream icing with blue colored sugar. The sugar I was able to tint with no problems!! I think that next time I make this recipe, I may stick with putting the food coloring in only the frosting or the decorations, but maybe you’ll have better luck than I did!
Note: Since I didn’t have cake flour, I just took used all purpose flour, using 2 tablespoons less. I then added in 2 tablespoons of corn starch and sifted together well before continuing with the recipe.
The frosting recipe is sooooo good!! To create the colored sugar I used on top, I just put a few tablespoons of sugar in a small bowl. I then added two drops of blue food coloring and stirred very well until the sugar was evenly tinted.
Once the cupcakes were made, clean up was super easy with Dawn Ultra. It has a super powerful formula that makes the suds last a LONG time so you can clean two times more dishes while the suds continue to last. It also has double the grease cutting power per drop!! Since it’s such a beautiful day today, I was happy that cleanup was so quick and simple, which meant we could get outside and enjoy the day – – and our cupcakes!
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Disclosure: This review was made possible by Double Duty Divas and Dawn. I was provided the featured product free of charge to facilitate my review, but all opinions are 100% mine.
jessica holybee says
Dishes with stuck on cheese are the worst .
Kim says
I hate cleaning ALL baking dishes. I feel like anything that goes in the oven because infinitely more difficult to clean
Roy F. says
Greasy dishes are the hardest to get clean.
Elizabeth says
Egg pans are the bane of my existence! We use stainless steel, NOT nonstick pans, and I really hate scrubbing them.
Rebecca says
Grease from baked chicken can be hard to get off if I forget to lay down foil first.
friederike graedener says
I would have to see that my loaf pans, casserole dishes and by far crock pot inserts are the worst to clean. Largely, due to their bulkiness. Thank you for the review and giveaway
kelly nicholson says
What type of dirty dishes do you find the hardest to get clean?
stuck on food like rice
natalie yeoman says
i would say the lasagna pan
Amanda E. says
Pans that had spaghetti made in them and was left to dry overnight.
Debra Hall says
anything thats used after my son cooks
Lisa Romine says
The hardest ones to clean are ones that haven’t been soaked immediately and have dried food on them.
FRANK says
Baking Pans Are The Hardest Dishes To Get Clean.
Galina Voytenko says
I would have to say pans are the hardest
Kelsey says
Isn’t red velvet just chocolate cake dyed red? I wonder if blue would work with chocolate
Chrysa says
It is usually a devil’s food cake, but made with vinegar and buttermilk. And then the red dye too, of course.
Natalie Brown says
Hello! The hardest dishes to clean are the dogs bowl and breakfast plates with egg on them. Thank-you for the chance in this giveaway!