St. Patrick’s Day Cupcakes Recipe
Celebrate St. In just 50 minutes, you can whip up a batch of moist, tender cupcakes topped with velvety green frosting.
Ingredients
Cupcakes
- 1 package white cake mix (15.25 ounce)
- 1¼ cup water
- ⅓ cup vegetable oil
- 3 eggs
Frosting
- 1 cup butter, softened
- 4½ cups powdered sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- ⅓ cup heavy cream
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 4 drops green food coloring
Topping
- 12 AirHeads Extreme Rainbow candy
- 3 cups mini marshmallows
- 24 rolo candies
- gold sprinkles
Instructions
- Prepare cake mix according to package directions for cupcakes by combining the cake mix, water, vegetable oil, and eggs. Bake cupcakes for 14-19 minutes and let cool.
- To make the frosting, beat butter until creamy.
- Add powdered sugar, vanilla, heavy cream and salt and mix together with a hand mixer until well combined.
- Add green food coloring until desired color is reached.
- Spread or pipe frosting on top of each cupcake.
- Cut each AirHeads Extreme candy in half and place on top of each cupcake to create an arch.
- Place two mini marshmallows on each end of the rainbow.
- To make the pot of gold, pipe a small amount of frosting onto the wide end of each Rolo, then press into gold sprinkles until all the frosting is covered. Place on the cupcake.
Nutrition
Calories: 327kcalCarbohydrates: 48gProtein: 2gFat: 15gSaturated Fat: 10gCholesterol: 46mgSodium: 243mgPotassium: 36mgFiber: 1gSugar: 39gVitamin A: 322IUVitamin C: 2mgCalcium: 56mgIron: 1mg
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