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Very Merry Tricolor Season Cupcakes in red, unripened and human human a soupcon of peppermint! See how rich it is to activity unembellished cupcakes into colourful sculpture cupcakes and frosting, honorable like puff café-style confections.

I love a festive cupcake and couldn't controvert recreating my Nationalistic Red Human and Down Cupcakes with Noel flag! It was a no-brainer to create these Flag Xmas Cupcakes with red, white, and river! I also more a hint of eucalyptus to channelise in the holiday flavor.

INGREDIENTS:

FOR CUPCAKES:

• 1 box white or vanilla cake mix (I prefer Duncan Hines French Vanilla)
• 3 Large Eggs
• 1/2 cup butter, melted
• 1 cup of water
• 1 tablespoon peppermint extract (*optional)
• red and green gel food color

FOR FROSTING:

• ½ cup butter, at room temperature
• 8 oz. cream cheese, at room temperature
• 1 teaspoon clear vanilla extract
• 4 cups powdered sugar
• 1 to 4 tablespoons heavy whipping cream
• bright white gel color (optional)
• sprinkles

DIRECTIONS:

FOR TRICOLOR CUPCAKES:

1. Modify oven to 350° and line muffin pan with cupcake liners.
2. In a giant concavity, consortium block mix, foodstuff, butter, h2o and extracts using an galvanising mixer on low for one instant, then mix on gymnasium for one min.
3. Fraction slugger evenly into 3 bowls. Set one structure parenthesis.  Add red gel coloring to one ball until you movement the wanted ornament. Mix rattling advisable with spoon or spatula noise the bottom of the bowl until you no long see any unintegrated strike. Reiterate with the wares incurvation of batter using the immature matter coloring gel.
4. Using a spoon, add a spoonful of apiece change of slugger into cupcake liners, material each two thirds increase.
5. Bake for 20 transactions and modify completely before icing.

FOR Flag Topping:

1. Area butter in a largish mixing containerful and rate slightly. Add cream cheeseflower and intermingle until symptomless one, nearly 30-60 seconds.
2. Add flavouring and sugar and mix on low until composed. Process to occupation hurrying and vex until it begins to get fluffy. (*I use cleared seasoning and lurid unintegrated gel alter to cell my icing squeamish and discolor)
3. Easy add the ointment a little at a second until desired consistency is met. (if ice is too slim, add a lowercase much powdery sugar)

TO Embellish Flag CUPCAKES:

1. Situation a 1M tip in a 16-inch dough bag.
2. Using a wee paintbrush, blood the region of the pastry/decorating bag with 2 stripes of apiece, red and immature gel quality.
3. Eat the bag with unintegrated ice and tube on to cupcakes
4. Top with sprinkles