Weaponized Piñata Cupcakes
These piñata cupcakes are super colorful, full of sprinkles, and so much fun!
Servings 24 cupcakes
Ingredients
- 1 batch of easy chocolate cupcakes- linked in instructions
- 1 batch of the best buttercream frosting- linked below
- Neon Food Gel, orange, yellow green, blue, and purple
- Sprinkles- lots! buy at least 10 oz
- 5 Piping Bags*
- Piping Tip- Wilton 103*
- 5 Piping Tip Couplers*
Instructions
- Make up a batch of my super easy and delicious chocolate cupcakes and let them cool completely.
- Once cooled, scoop out a spoonful from the middle of the cupcake. Then fill with sprinkles. Since these are piñata cupcakes, I like to really pack them full, so you get the fun piñata breaking effect when you bite into them.
- Then whip up a batch of my easy buttercream and divide the frosting equally into 5 bowls. Add a few drops of food coloring to each bowl, make one orange, one yellow, one green, one blue, and one purple. Place each color in a piping bag fitted with a piping coupler or see notes below if you don’t want to use a piping tip.
- Pipe on each color of frosting, making short lines, then layer on the next color. I started with purple and then layered on blue green, yellow, and orange.
- Refrigerate the cupcakes until ready to eat! Enjoy!
Notes
*In place of piping bags you can use ziploc baggies with the corner cut off. *If you don’t want to use piping tip and couplers, just cut a small corner of the ziploc bag or piping bag so when the frosting comes out it will make a small rectangle. If you look at the pictures, I used a ziploc baggie without a piping tip for the blue, because I didn’t have enough couplers. The blue isn’t as uniform as the other colors but still looks great!