Tie Dye Frosting

To conclude our tie dye fun, we made cupcakes with tie dye frosting.  All I did was mix some frosting with food coloring (different colors in separate bowls) and then swirled it together on the cupcakes.  The frosting we used was very thin, so this was the easiest way to make them look tie dyed. 

Our frosting recipe came from the following book:

Cupcake by Charise Mericle Harper is a very cute story about a vanilla cupcake who feels very plain next to his fancy brothers and sisters (rainbow sprinkles cupcake, pink princess cupcake, etc.).  When Cupcake meets Candle (a plain candle who also feels the pain of having fancy brothers and sisters like twisty candle and letter candle), they brainstorm ideas to make Cupcake special.  Their ideas are very funny; C and R both enjoyed this book.

At the end of the book, there is a recipe for "Deliciously Plain Vanilla Cupcakes" and "Deliciously Plain Buttercream Frosting".  In the spirit of the book, we had to leave some of the cupcakes plain.

R frosted all of these herself!

The cupcakes and frosting are really good - good enough that I copied the recipe for future use.  Poor plain cupcakes though - T and C went right for the tie dyed cupcakes and ignored the plain.  I'm sure they will be eaten once the tie dyed cupcakes are gone, but after reading the book, I felt a little sad for them!!!  R, of course, has not eaten any cupcakes - too sweet!