These Tie Dye cupcakes are swirling with color inside and out, made with only natural plant-based colors and ingredients!

MAKES 12-16 CUPCAKES

INGREDIENTS

CUPCAKES
1 cake/cupcake mix
2 Yellow Color Kitchen Color packets
2 Pink Color Kitchen Color packets
2 Blue Color Kitchen Color packets

FROSTING
1 Color Kitchen Plain Frosting Mix
1 Yellow Color Kitchen Color packet
1 Pink Color Kitchen Color packet
1 Blue Color Kitchen Color packet
1 Green Color Kitchen Color packet (optional)

DIRECTIONS

CUPCAKES
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Prepare cupcake tins with liners.

Mix cupcake batter and split into 3 bowls. Add 2 color packets per bowl and blend until all the color is fully dissolved.

Put 1 tbsp each colored batter into each cupcake tin. Swirl with a spoon once.

Put in oven and bake for 20 minutes or until a cake tester inserted into the center of the cupcakes comes out clean.

Cool cupcakes before frosting.

FROSTING
Make frosting according to directions.

Add approx 1 color packet per ⅓ cup frosting.

Combine 3 frosting colors into a piping bag with star tip. Try to keep colors separated. Squeeze out a little bit of frosting until combined color swirl shows, then frost cupcakes.

Here are some suggested ratios per ⅓ cup frosting for saturated colors:

Purple: 1 tsp pink + 1 tsp blue
Green: 1 tsp blue + 1 tsp yellow (or 1 ½ tsp green)
Pink: 1 tsp pink
Blue: 1 tsp blue