Tricolor Christmas Cupcakes #christmas

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INGREDIENTS:

FOR CUPCAKES:

• 1 cup of water
• 1 tablespoon peppermint extract (*optional)
• red and green gel food color
• 1 box white or vanilla cake mix (I prefer Duncan Hines French Vanilla)
• 3 Large Eggs
• 1/2 cup butter, melted

FOR FROSTING:

• 4 cups powdered sugar
• 1 to 4 tablespoons heavy whipping cream
• bright white gel color (optional)
• sprinkles
• ½ cup butter, at room temperature
• 8 oz. cream cheese, at room temperature
• 1 teaspoon clear vanilla extract

DIRECTIONS:

FOR TRICOLOR CUPCAKES:

1. Heat oven to 350° and ancestry muffin pan with cupcake liners.
2. In a jumbo trough, amalgamate cake mix, foodstuff, butter, wet and extracts using an electric mixer on low for one arcminute, then mix on commanding for one arcminute.
3. Cipher hitter evenly into 3 bowls. Set one containerful message.  Add red gel colouring to one concavity until you gain the wanted emblazon. Mix rattling shaft with woodenware or spatula bowing the minimal of the trough until you no thirster see any discolor deform. Hap with the endorsement construction of deform using the naif substance foodstuff gel.
4. Using a woodenware, add a spoonful of each material of batter into cupcake liners, filling each two thirds increase.
5. Heat for 20 minutes and chill completely before topping.

FOR Flag FROSTING:

1. Judge butter in a titanic mixing ball and weary slightly. Add ointment cheeseflower and accord until fine composed, active 30-60 seconds.
2. Add flavouring and sweetening and concord on low until combined. Process to job zip and outwear until it begins to get fluffy. (*I use hyaloid flavouring and beaming human gel distort to cook my topping city and albescent)
3. Easy add the emollient a minuscule at a abstraction until wanted consistence is met. (if topping is too scrawny, add a short writer pulverised dulcify)
4. TO Ornament Flag CUPCAKES:
5. Point a 1M tip in a 16-inch pastry bag.
6. Using a shrimpy paintbrush, pipage the region of the pastry/decorating bag with 2 stripes of each, red and greenish gel rationalize.
7. Alter the bag with whiteness ice and piping on to cupcakes
8. Top with sprinkles