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St. Patrick's Day Lucky Charm Cupcakes

Check out these simple St. Patrick's Day Lucky Charm Cupcakes.
Servings 12 cupcakes

Ingredients
  

  • Boxed vanilla cake mix + ingredients to make it**
  • 2 sticks unsalted butter, softened
  • 4 cups icing sugar, sifted
  • 2-3 tablespoon milk
  • Green gel food coloring
  • Blue gel food coloring
  • Yellow gel food coloring
  • Red gel food coloring
  • ½ cup Lucky Charms cereal

Instructions
 

  • Prepare cupcakes according to the box’s directions - allow the cupcakes to cool completely before decorating.
  • Add butter, icing sugar and milk to a large bowl. Use an electric mixer to beat together all ingredients, starting on low and gradually increasing to high.
  • Beat ingredients until smooth, creating semi-stiff peaks.
  • Divide buttercream into 4 separate bowls. Add one color of gel food coloring to each bowl. To achieve a rich color, add about 2-3 small drops (a bit less than ¼ of a teaspoon).
  • Mix each bowl of buttercream until completely tinted.
  • Attach Wilton icing tip #21 to a piping bag. Scoop colored buttercream into the piping bag, alternating colors.
  • Frost each cupcake.
  • Decorate each cupcake with cereal, using mainly the marshmallow shapes. Enjoy!

Notes

**We recommend splitting the portions in half, as most cake mixes yield about 24 cupcakes. This way, you can make one dozen.
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