How to Make Cinco de Mayo Cupcakes

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  • Decorating cupcakes is a holiday tradition. With just white frosting and food coloring, you can be ready to celebrate Cinco de Mayo cupcake style! Read on to learn how to make Cinco de Mayo cupcakes.

  • Introduction

    • Cupcakes are very quick and easy treats, that will work well to bring into school for a Cinco de Mayo classroom celebration, or feature on a buffet table at a Cinco de Mayo Party.

  • Step 1: How to Make Cinco de Mayo Cupcakes

    • Cinco de Mayo celebrates a victory of the Mexican army over the French in 1862. It's a patriotic occasion, so it's appropriate to frost cupcakes in green, white, and red, the colors of the Mexican flag.

  • What You'll Need for Cinco de Mayo Cupcakes

    1. Unfrosted cupcakes
    2. White frosting
    3. Red and green food coloring
    4. 3 bowls for frosting
    5. 2 mixing spoons
    6. 3 knive or spatulas to spread the frosting

  • Instructions for Cinco de Mayo Cupcakes

    1. Divide frosting into three bowls.
    2. Add a few drops of red food coloring to one bowl, green to another, and leave one bowl white.
    3. Blend the food coloring thoroughly, using a clean spoon for each color.
    4. Frost the middle third of each cupcake white, one outer side green, and the other red

  • Step 2: Cinco de Mayo Cupcake Tips

    1. Cupcakes can be baked ahead and frozen. Thaw completely before frosting.
    2. Use stripes of red and green colored sugar to make quick and easy Cinco de Mayo cupcakes
    3. Arrange slices of kiwi and strawberry on white frosting for a fruity Cinco de Mayo cupcake
    4. Top the cupcakes with a Mexican flag.
    5. Consider topping red velvet cupcakes with white frosting and green sprinkles.
    6. You can draw a Mexican flag on the cupcake with red and green decorating gel.
    7. Top cupcakes with a sombrero or cactus figurine.
    8. Make a "cookie sombrero" to top the cupcake:
      1. Take a vanilla wafer cookie, and dab frosting in the center
      2. Place a white gumdrop to the frosting dab
      3. You can roll the edges of the "sombrero" in frosting, and then in green and red sprinkles to creat e decorative trim for your sombrero.

  • Step 3: Cinco de Mayo Cupcake Ideas and Recipes


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