Ingredients
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Cupcakes:
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1/4 cup unsalted sweet cream butter, softened
- 1 large egg, room temperature
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 plus 1/8 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/4 plus 1/8 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 cup heavy cream
- 1/4 cup sour cream
- 1–3 drops of teal food coloring
Frosting
- 1 C unsalted sweet cream butter
- 3 C powder sugar
- 5 TBSP heavy whipping cream
- 1 tsp vanilla
- teal food coloring
- Gold cake spray
- Gold cake sprinkles
Instructions
Cupcakes:
- Preheat oven to 350 F degrees and place liners in cupcake pan.
- With an electric mixer beat sugar and butter until creamed.
- Add egg and mix until fully incorporated.
- Beat in vanilla extract, salt, baking soda, and baking powder.
- Combine the heavy cream into the wet mixture.
- Add in the flour, 1/4 cup at a time.
- Add in the sour cream.
- Add the drops of food coloring.
- Spoon batter into each liner about 1/2 full.
- Bake in oven for about 20-22 minutes or until the center of the cupcake comes out clean with a toothpick.
Frosting:
- Combine all ingredients in a large bowl, except the food coloring, and mix on low speed with an electric mixer until combined and stiff peaks form.
- Split the frosting into three bowls.
- In one bowl add 2 drops of teal food coloring and mix until you have a light teal color.
- In the second bowl, add 3-5 drops of teal food coloring until you get a dark teal color.
- Leave the third bowl white.
- Fit a piping bag with a large star tip and place the bag into a large cup and fold the sides over the edge of the cup.
- Take a big spoonful of the light teal frosting and spoon it onto one side of the piping bag.
- Take a big spoonful of the white frosting and spoon it next to the teal color.
- Take a big spoonful of the dark teal frosting and spoon it next to the white icing.
- Remove the piping bag from the cup and squeeze it together.
- Frost the top of the cupcake with the frosting. The frosting should come out in a swirl of colors.
- Using the gold cake spray, lightly spray the white part of the frosting and then spray the dark teal lightly with the spray.
- You might want to use a paper towel or something to shield the exposed cupcake from being sprayed gold.
- Lastly, add some of the gold cake sprinkles on top of the cupcake.