Playing with frosting

With the bad thunderstorms on Saturday night, I needed an activity to keep busy. What better to do then play around with frosting in the kitchen.

A recent Food Network Magazine had a tutorial on how to make all different colored frosting. 

I decided to make three different colored cupcakes...Bubble Gum, Mint Chip & Concord Grape.

I bought 2 boxes of plain white cake mix. 

I added a few drops of red food coloring to the cake mix to give it a pretty peachy color.

I created three different colors by using 1 cup of store bought white frosting and adding the following to each cup:

For Bubblegum: 26 drops of red food coloring 

For Mint Chip: 3 blue, 3 green drops of food coloring

For Concord Grape: 10 blue, 12 red drops of food coloring

(I halved the magazine's food coloring amount for this one because I thought the purple was too dark)

I let the cupcakes cool before frosting them, and then went to town.

They tasted delicious and looked almost too pretty to eat.

Now I just need to find people to give them to so I don't eat all of them myself!

The Finished Product

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