Quick & Easy Unicorn Cake or Cupcakes in a Cup

Quick & Easy Unicorn Cake or Cupcakes in a Cup

Using your favorite cake mix and a pint of frosting, make easy mini cakes or cupcakes in just a matter of minutes!

MAKES: 6 MINI CAKES OR LARGE CUPCAKES

INGREDIENTS

cake mix
pint of frosting
2 Color Kitchen Color packets (pink + blue)
1 Color Kitchen Rainbow Sprinkles
small microwavable bowls or coffee cups

CAKE MIX

Add a little under ½ cup cake mix into each cup. Then add 3 tbsp of water to each and stir until fully mixed and there are no lumps.

OPTION: For confetti cakes, add ½ tsp sprinkles to each and stir lightly. Be sure to save some sprinkles to decorate frosting.

Put in microwave 1-2 at a time for 2 minutes, until batter is fully cooked. Let cool 10-15 min. before frosting.

Add toppers and sprinkles.

Unicorn Cupcake

FROSTING

Split a pint of frosting into 2 bowls ¾ cup each.

For light pastel colors: Add ½ tsp color to each bowl of frosting. For deep rich colors: Add 1 tsp color.

Any remaining color can be saved or used for cake batter.

With a spoon or hand mixer, blend each color into frosting.

For purple: Take ¼ cup blue frosting and ¼ cup pink frosting and blend together.

Add multiple colors into piping bags for a color swirl.

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