Cub-Cakes, I Guess You Could Call Them ;)

I had so much fun with the Red, White and Blue-tiful cupcakes, I decided that coloring the batter wasn't enough. I wanted to try my hand at colored icing for some more patriotic cupcakes! I had seen multi-colored frosting at my local bakery and thought the idea was super cute. I briefly went online to look up how to do it, then forgot about. Then, my friend over at AJ's cupcakes tried it out, and her's turned out super cute and she provides nice instructions as well. Then, once again, I kinda forgot about it. Well, like I mentioned earlier, I wanted another idea for patriotic cupcakes, and I remembered I really wanted to try this technique so I set out to figure this out. When I went online, I could not easily find visual instructions on how to do the mutli-colored frosting; all I could find was written intructions. Now, I'm not saying they aren't out there, I just couldn't find them! Did I look hard, no, but that's neither here nor there ;) I'm very visual, so this project seemed a bit intimidating, but I was determined to figure it out AND document it in pictures.

First, make a batch of your favorite buttercream icing. I find the basic Wilton buttercream icing works great. Minimal ingredients and nice texture. Divide the batter into how many icing colors you need. Now I tried for three, but did not have a decorating bag big enough to hold three, so I ended up only being able to use two icing colors at a time.



After your icing is dyed your desired colors, lay out a piece of Saran wrap and plop some icing down on top of it.


Then roll the Saran wrap up and start to flatten the icing until it's long and round, about the length of the decorating bag you are using. Then, secure it at one end. Repeat for the remaining colored icing you have.


Once all of the icing is rolled into Saran wrap, load them into your decorating bag.





From here, you can just start piping onto your cupcakes, but I did a couple of test swirls to ensure the icing was coming out evenly distributed.

Now, here is where I realize these are in no way looking patriotic anymore :-(. I immediately thought they looked like Chicago Cubs colors, hence why I am calling them Cub-Cakes. Now, slight problem. There are no Cubs fans in my house, or anywhere near my house. I have a lot family in Chicago, one side of the family would really like these. The other side, not so much. If you're my family and you're reading this, you know which side you're on and if you're on the Cubs side, I wish I could hand deliver these to you now!!




So, that was my project for the night. They turned out not quite what I was looking for, but I did learn what I set out to do with the multi-colored frosting, so I am a happy baker right now. I think next time I'll try a different decorating tip and maybe different colors ;)

xoxo,
Katie