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.
krystal wethington says
Red sauce because it seems to leave stains.
Brittney House says
I have a hard time with pasta dishes.
Paula Michele Hafner says
I find casseroles that have spaghetti sauce and cheese are some of the hardest to clean.
MARIA simon says
has to be the baked on stuff.. that is so hard.. but my dawn always comes through 😉
jeanine feldkamp says
baked on chicken
Stephanie Baker says
We eat a lot (a LOT) of cheese in our house. We have to start the soaking process as soon as we are finished cooking/eating so it doesn’t harden making it difficult to clean.
Susan Smith says
Pans with food caked on them.
Lorena Keech says
Baked on food, like lasagna, on casseroles is murder.
Stephanie Galbraith says
Anything my kids eat on seem to be hard to clean.
Zenetta says
I find it hard to clean eggs out of my cast iron skillets.
Jan P. says
My casseroles often have crusty edges from some form of cheese, so they are my biggest dish washing challenge.
Kimberly Hilbert says
Greasy dishes, like pork ribs or pork chops, are the hardest and yuckiest.
Jill Myrick says
I find baked on dishes such as casseroles and baked spaghetti the hardest of all to clean.
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Rebecca Williams says
Anything I’ve cooked in the oven that had baked on food stuck to it.
Robin says
It has to be casserole dishes, especially if it involves cheese