Watermelon Slice Cupcakes Food

WATERMELON CUPCAKES

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350º F. Line a muffin pan with muffin liners.
• In a mixing bowl combine the butter and sugar, beat using an electric mixer, 1-2 minutes until fluffy. Add in the egg whites, sour cream, milk, and vanilla extract. Beat lightly with the electric mixer. In a separate mixing bowl combine the flour, baking powder, and salt. Gradually add the flour mixture to the wet ingredients a few spoonfuls at a time. Mix until just incorporated. Add in a small amount of Wilton's "leaf green" gel food coloring until you get your desired green color. Fill the muffin liners 1/2-3/4 full.
• Bake for 17-19 minutes at 350º F or until a few moist crumbs remain on a toothpick when inserted into the center. Allow the cupcakes to cool completely before adding the frosting.
• In a mixing bowl beat the butter with an electric mixer until smooth, about 2 minutes.
• Add in 2 cups of powdered sugar and the watermelon kool aid powder, beat together.
• Add in more powdered sugar as you see fit, up to 2 more cups,
• A small amount of red food coloring (to give the frosting a pinkish color), mixing one last time with an electric mixer until it's smooth and combined.
• Place the buttercream in a large piping bag fit with a 1m wilton piping tip. Push the buttercream down into the bag. Pipe the buttercream onto the cupcakes, starting in the center of the cupcake, swirling out, and then swirling back into the center, progressively stacking the frosting as you get to the center.
• Add mini chocolate chips on top of the buttercream.

WATERMELON CUPCAKES

Steps:

• Preheat your oven to 350 degrees and line a muffin tin with cupcake liners.
• In a large bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, and salt, set aside.
• In a separate bowl, cream together butter and sugar. Add the eggs one at a time, mixing in between.
• Stir in vanilla.
• Slowly alternate adding the dry ingredients and the milk to the butter and sugar mixture, mixing well in between each addition.
• Mix in green food coloring, a few drops at a time, until incorporated into the cupcakes.
• Fill cupcake liners ⅔ full. Bake for 18-20 minutes.
• Meanwhile, in a large bowl mix together cream cheese, butter, and vanilla.
• Slowly mix in powdered sugar, kool aid and red food coloring until ingredients are combined and frosting is formed.
• Allow the watermelon cupcakes to cool completely before frosting.
• Add the frosting to your cake decorator or piping bag with an icing tip, and frost the watermelon cupcakes.
• Finish your watermelon cupcakes with miniature chocolate chips for "watermelon seeds". Enjoy!

WATERMELON PULL-APART CUPCAKE CAKE

Steps:

• Reserve about 3/4 cup white buttercream in a pastry bag fitted with a large plain round tip. Color about 1 1/2 cups buttercream deep green. Color about 3 cups buttercream deep pink, with a few drops of red added to make the color of ripe watermelon.
• Arrange 19 cupcakes in a triangle shape, starting with 1 at the top and ending with 6 at the bottom, sloping the bottom sides up to resemble the curved rind of a watermelon wedge.
• Use an ice cream scoop or large spoon to dollop about 1/4 cup green buttercream on each of the 6 cupcakes in the bottom row. Smooth with a small offset spatula, covering the tops and sides (but not the paper liners), to make a solid line of green for the rind.
• Wash and dry the ice cream scoop and offset spatula. Dollop about 1/4 cup pink buttercream on each of the remaining cupcakes and smooth the tops and sides with the offset spatula. Shape the frosting on the top cupcake into a point to resemble the tip of a watermelon wedge.
• Wash the offset spatula again. Pipe a curved line of white buttercream along where the pink and green buttercream meet. Smooth with the tip of the offset spatula to make the inner white part of the watermelon rind.
• Press jelly beans in a random pattern to make watermelon seeds.