Cotton Candy Cupcakes

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• Step 1

  Makes 24

  Ingredients for Cupcakes

  1 package Vanilla or white cake mix

  Milk

  Eggs, as many as cake mix directions state

  Oil, as much as cake mix directions state

• Step 2

  Ingredients for Frosting

  1 can purchased vanilla frosting

  1 teaspoon pure Vanilla extract

  * ½ teaspoon bubblegum flavoring

  Pink and/or blue paste food coloring

  2 bags purchased cotton candy

• Step 3

  Let’s Make Cupcakes!

  Preheat oven to temperature directed on cake mix package. Line 24 cupcake molds with paper or silicone cupcake liners. Set aside until ready to use.

• Step 4

  1. Make cupcakes according to directions, substituting milk for water and adding enough pink or blue paste food coloring to the batter to create a pastel colored batter.

• Step 5

  2. Bake according to cake mix package instructions. Remove cupcakes from oven and cool on wire racks for 30 minutes before frosting and decorating.

• Step 6

  3. Place the purchased frosting in a bowl and add Vanilla and bubblegum flavoring. Tint the frosting pink or blue as desired with the paste food coloring. Frost cupcakes and decorate with a small amount of cotton candy in the center of each frosted cupcake.

• Step 7

  Bubblegum flavoring may be purchased at cake decorating supplies stores or craft stores.

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BreeXI · U.S. Air Force Academy, Colorado, US · 6 projects 1st July 2011

i decided to give these a try cuz they looked amazing and cute and yummy but mine taste nothing like cotton candy and the cotton candy decor melted almost instantly. i wonder what could be tweaked to fix my issue...

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farsprinkles · 2 projects 13th June 2010

cute...love it!

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sparklez. 21st February 2010

:O ♥

these look delicious! really pretty pic.

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Love in a Thunderstorm · 7 projects 25th January 2010

I bet you have to eat those pretty quick, or the moistness of the frosting is going to melt the cotton candy.

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Jet H. · Haarlem, North Holland, NL · 108 projects 25th January 2010

ohhh they looks so yummy , so sweet the picts. love the pretty look.

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