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Fourth of July Patriotic Cupcakes
Celebrate Independence Day with the colors of our country on delicious cupcakes.
Prep time: 30 min.
Baking time: 44 min.
Decoration time: 30 min.
Difficulty: Moderate
What you'll need:
- For cookies
- 1 bag M&M’S® Brand Milk Chocolate Candies Red, White and Blue Blend
- 1/2 cup flour
- 1 18-oz. refrigerated cookie dough
- 2 cans vanilla frosting
- Blue food coloring
- 1 tube decorating chocolate frosting
- 24 lollipop sticks or small craft sticks
- 2 resealable plastic bags
- 2 cookie sheet pans
- Printable template
- For cupcakes
- 1 bag SNICKERS® Brand Minis
- 1 bag M&M’S® Brand Milk Chocolate Candies Red, White & Blue Blend
- 1 18.25-oz. chocolate cake mix
- 2 jumbo cupcake pans
- 12 jumbo cupcake liners
- Small star tip
What to do:
- Flag Cookies
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line the sheet pans with parchment paper.
- Knead the flour into the dough and roll to a 1/4-inch thickness. Using the printable template cut 12 flags, re-rolling the scraps as necessary. Insert 2 lollipop sticks into the back of the cookies and place on the cookie sheets.
- Bake for approximately 12-17 minutes, or until golden. Remove from the oven, transfer to a wire rack and let cool completely.
- Tint 3/4 cup of the vanilla frosting blue and spoon into a resealable plastic bag with a corner snipped. Spoon the remaining vanilla frosting into another bag with a corner snipped. Pipe a small square with blue frosting on the top left corner of the cookie. Pipe the rest of the cookie with vanilla frosting. Using the photo as your guide, attach red and white M&M’S® Brand Milk Chocolate Candies. Pipe chocolate frosting at the top of the pole and set cookies aside to dry.
- Cupcakes
- Meanwhile, line the cupcake pans with paper cupcake liners.
- Roughly chop 2 cups of SNICKERS® Brand Minis. Prepare the cake mix according to package instructions, fold in the chopped SNICKERS® Brand Minis. Divide batter between the prepared cupcake pans.
- Bake for approximately 23-27 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Remove from the oven, transfer to a wire rack and let cool completely.
- With the vanilla frosting, pipe dots around the top of the cupcakes. Randomly decorate the top with blue M&M’S® Brand Milk Chocolate Candies. Press the flag cookies into the center of the cupcakes.
Tips: For a flag that’s not waving: cut cookie dough into rectangles 1/12"x2" then continue to follow instructions
Makes 12 cupcakes and cookies.
