I made these cupcakes for St.Patrick’s Day – which also happens to be Bob’s birthday – so Happy Birthday Little Bro. These cupcakes were a bit time consuming but the attention they got was definitely worth it! 
I used Saucy Sprinkle’s Cheater Cupcake Recipe because I was a bit rushed for time:
- 1 French Vanilla Box Cake
- 3 Eggs
- 1/2 cup Melted Butter
- 1 cup water
- Wilton gel green food colouring
Place batter into lightly oiled cupcake liners and place into a 350°F oven for 18 minutes. Take out and let the cupcakes completely cool before icing.
For the icing, I used a my delicious Cream Cheese Buttercream Icing. Combine the following ingredients below and blend until smooth:
- 3-4 cups of icing sugar
- 1 block of cream cheese
- 1/2 cup butter
- 2-3 tbsp cream
- 1 tsp Wilton butter flavouring
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
Pipe onto the cupcakes with a small round tip to shape the icing into the form of clouds. To make the little pots of gold, I ended up using foil covered peanut butter cups, topped with a dollop of the icing then rolled into yellow sprinkles. To create the rainbows used sour candy rainbow belts and anchor onto the cupcake using icing sugar. I also added a bit of icing to the base of the pots of gold to give them extra hold to the cupcake.
Carlene
Cupcakes were originally inspired by Grin & Bake It.
Very cool cupcakes! I like the tip you used for the white icing, make it look like fluffy clouds. Thanks for posting
Wow! Those are fantastic! Especially love the rainbow and the pot of gold – a shiny penny in every pot, I’ll guess!
wow!!!