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Patriotic Cupcake Cake

Get ready to celebrate the red, white, and blue with this AMAZING patriotic cupcake cake! Using the American Flag as my inspiration, this is a fun, creative and EASY dessert that will definitely make all your summer entertaining fun.
Prep Time1 hour
Cook Time40 minutes
Total Time1 hour 40 minutes
Course: Summer
Cuisine: American
Keyword: 4th of July cupcakes, American flag cupcakes, cupcake flag, patriotic cupcake cake
Servings: 45 cupcakes
Calories: 47kcal
Author: Lois

Ingredients

  • 2 15.25 ounce boxes yellow cake mix, plus the ingredients listed on the back of the box.
  • 2 containers cream cheese frosting
  • red gel food coloring
  • blue gel food coloring

Instructions

  • Preheat the oven to 350°F.
  • Place paper baking cups in each of the 12 regular-size muffin cups.
  • Prepare one box of cake mix at a time according to the directions with the ingredients listed on the back of the box.
  • Bake according to the box instructions.
  • Allow the cupcakes to cool completely before frosting.
  • Place the cupcakes on a tray or cake board large enough to form the shape of the American flag. You will need a total of 35 cupcakes. Place 7 rows of cupcakes across the width of the board and 5 rows high.

Frost the Cupcakes:

  • Add 1 cup of frosting to a bowl and add blue gel food coloring until you reach your desired shade.
  • Add about 2 cups of frosting to a bowl and add red gel food coloring until you reach your desired shade.
  • Add about 1 ½ cups of white frosting to a pastry bag with a 1M piping tip attached. Do the same for the blue and red frostings.
  • On rows 1-3, add blue frosting to the first 3 cupcakes on the far left. These 9 cupcakes in the left corner represent the stars.
  • Frost the remaining cupcakes on rows 1, 3, and 5 red.
  • Frost the remaining cupcakes on rows 2 and 4 white.

Notes

  • Both boxes of cake mix gave me 45 cupcakes total. I only used 35 for the cupcake cake because of the size tray I used. I frosted the remaining cupcakes and served them on the side. You can add fun patriotic picks to them to help decorate around the cupcake cake if you want.
  • Frosting colored with gel food coloring darkens the longer it sits, so allow it to rest about 15 minutes before adding more and more food coloring to get the right shade of red or blue.
  • If your frosting seems a bit thin to hold its shaped when piped, add a tablespoon of powdered sugar at a time until it reaches the perfect consistency.

Nutrition

Serving: 1g | Calories: 47kcal | Carbohydrates: 10g | Fat: 1g | Sodium: 86mg | Sugar: 6g