Mermaid Cupcakes
These gorgeous Mermaid Cupcakes combine yummy buttercream frosting and pretty Under the Sea colors into a perfectly delicious party cupcake for your Little Mermaid.
Every Under the Sea Birthday Party needs pretty Mermaid Cupcakes and boy have we got you covered there. Featuring delicious chocolate cupcakes topped with creamy swirls of homemade Buttercream Frosting in the most perfect Mermaid colors. They are so easy to make and so yummy to eat … your Little Mermaid will squeal with delight.
Ingredients You Will Need
How to Make the Cupcakes
Step 1: Make a batch of cupcakes. You can use a cake box mix, we have all the instructions you’ll need to make them taste just like homemade right here. Or you can make them from scratch with our yummy Homemade Chocolate Cupcakes recipe. We used chocolate cupcakes but Vanilla Cupcakes would taste great too.
How to Make the Frosting
Step 2: The key to these delicious cupcakes is our Best Buttercream Frosting recipe. It is light and creamy and buttery and super delicious! You will find the recipe and directions here. One batch of frosting will be enough to frost 12 cupcakes. If you used a boxed cake mix, you should have about 18 cupcakes and will need to double the frosting recipe. Once you have the frosting made, split it into thirds. Because the three layers of the frosting swirl are not all the same size we portioned our single batch of frosting as follows:
Purple: 1 cup
Pink: 3/4 cups
Blue: 1/2 cup
How to Color the Frosting
Now it is time to tint the frosting. We like the Wilton Color Right Food Coloring. It is concentrated and you can get a bright color without having to use too much food coloring. Here are the formulas we used for our Mermaid frosting colors:
Purple: 2 drops of Pink and 1 drop of Blue Food Coloring
Blue: 2 drops of Blue food coloring
Pink: 3 drops of Pink food coloring
Putting It All Together
Step 4: Load the three colors of frosting into separate decorating bags with a Wilton 1M Open Star Decorating Tip and gather up your cupcakes!
Step 5: For each Mermaid Cupcake, you will make three swirls of the frosting. Purple on the bottom, then pink, and finally blue.
Step 6: With the decorating bag and the 1M tip, make one and a half circles of purple frosting around the edge of the cupcake.
Step 7: Next apply another 1 1/2 circles of pink frosting but this circle should be a little smaller than the purple frosting layer as shown in the picture above.
Step 8: Finally, with the blue frosting, add a third circle but this time finishing with an upward flourish so that the swirl ends in a peak at the top.
You can watch a video of how to make a frosting swirl like this in our How to Frost Cupcakes post.
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Mermaid Cupcakes
These gorgeous Mermaid Cupcakes combine yummy buttercream frosting and pretty Under the Sea colors into a perfectly delicious party cupcake for your Little Mermaid.
Ingredients
- 1 box Chocolate Cake Mix
- 1-2 batches The Best Buttercream Frosting
- Wilton 1M Frosting tip and decorating bag
- Food Coloring - Pink, Blue
Instructions
- Make a batch of chocolate cupcakes cupcakes.
- Make 1-2 batches of our Best Buttercream Frosting recipe (depending on how many cupcakes you are frosting.)
- Once you have the frosting made, split it into thirds. Because the three layers of the frosting swirl are not all the same size we portioned our single batch of frosting as follows: Purple: 1 cup Pink: 3/4 cups Blue: 1/2 cup
- For each Mermaid Cupcake, you will make three swirls of the frosting. Purple on the bottom, then pink, and finally blue. With the decorating bag and the 1M tip, make one and a half circles of purple frosting around the edge of the cupcake.
- Next, apply another 1 1/2 circles of pink frosting but this circle should be a little smaller than the purple frosting layer as shown in the picture above.
- Finally, with the blue frosting, add a third circle but this time finishing with an upward flourish so that the swirl ends in a peak at the top.
Notes
Food Coloring Formulas
Purple: 2 drops of Pink and 1 drop of Blue Food Coloring
Blue: 2 drops of Blue food coloring
Pink: 3 drops of Pink food coloring
Did you Make this Recipe? Leave a review below, then snap a picture and tag @twosisterscrafting on Instagram so we can see it!
