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.
brittney says
Anything baked on is a pain in the rear to clean!
Lindsay @ Laughing Lindsay says
The lasagna dish is always hard to clean.
debbie says
Anything with baked on cheese in it.
Tiffany W says
Baking pans or the crock pot is hard to get clean
Mendy Dinsmore says
The hardest ones for me to clean are baked on cheese in a casserole dish. I have to let it soak a few days.
Cheryl Abdelnour says
My crock pot or lasagna dishes are hard to clean.
julie murphy says
I hate baked pasta mess
suzanne says
Frying pans and casserole dishes are hard to clean.
Rebecca Parsons says
My casserole dishes are the ones that are hard to wash.
tracy webb says
I hate to clean grease pans.
Sara Cunningham says
Any time I bake something I have a hard time cleaning the baking dish.
Diane L. says
I think my crock pot is the most difficult thing to clean. So now I always use the disposable liners, and this makes it so much easier.
Angie says
Baking pans with spray on them.. The spray is the worst to get off baking pans!
sandra says
baked on sauces are the hardest
Nicole-Lynn says
My omelette pan is always so hard to clean. I find the egg really sticks on to the non-stick coating a lot. I bet Dawn would help get it off easily! Thanks for the opportunity.