4th of July Cupcake Flag

I was inspired to make this after seeing something similar in a Food Network magazine.

In their version, they did little pastry shells and filled them with vanilla custard, and used blueberries and strawberries to decorate the colors of the flag.

I decided to do vanilla mini-cupcakes and just use colored icing.

I did blue with white stars, and then rows of red and white for the stripes. 

I would have done more stripes to make it a little more accurate, but I ran out of red icing, so this is what I could do.

I think it turned out really cute!

And what I like best is that it's a dessert that people can just grab one of, making it less messy and easy to just set out and have people take as they want.

Cupcake Fun

I love to save myself time and work by using store-bought box mixes for things. 

You can make them "semi-homeade" by adding flavored extract to the mix and by topping them with creative little touches!

I made these strawberry cupcakes with white icing and different colored sprinkles. 

I think it's more fun to eat treats that are pretty!