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.
Alona Y says
The worst ones are the greasy pans or containers that had spaghetti or anything else that’s greasy and stains.
Samantha D says
Anything greasy, or smelly. Tomato stained, or dried rice krispied. Ugh, hate washing dishes
Kathleen L says
Lasagna pans.
Heather B says
Cheesy dishes and things with eggs are usually the hardest.
Susan Christy says
The lasagna pan – that stuck on cheese is sometimes hard to remove.
Michelle C says
The hardest dishes for me are things that are tomato based, such as lasagna or spaghetti. Thanks for the chance to win!
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Mary Beth Elderton says
My casserole dish when I bake something cheesy
Debbi Wellenstein says
My broiler pan when broiling bbq chicken or ribs!
Jennifer Lachman says
I hate washing out the frying pan after making bacon.
Candace B says
I find any baking dish I have made a casserole in to be the most difficult dish to clean, especially if it had cheese in it.
Linda Lansford says
type of dirty dishes I find the hardest to get clean are burnt on grease
Sharon Kaminski says
I find the hardest to get clean are crock pots and baking dishes.
Becca says
Glass casserole dishes or anything with cooked on cheese are tough to wash!
Leela says
Baked pasta dishes.
Sarah Hall says
I hate dried on eggs…….they are the worst.