Description
Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with these fun and festive Easy St. Patrick’s Day Cupcakes. Featuring green cupcake liners, golden Oreo ‘coins’, marshmallow ‘clouds’, and colorful Airheads rainbows, these cupcakes are perfect for a holiday party or family treat. Made with a white cake mix and decorated with white icing, these cupcakes are easy to prepare and delightfully festive.
Ingredients
Scale
Cake Batter
- 1 box White Cake Mix (plus ingredients needed as per box instructions)
Decorations
- 1 container White Icing
- 1 package Extreme Air Heads candy
- 1 bag Mini Marshmallows
- 1 package Golden Oreos
- Gold Mist Food Paint (cake decorating section)
- Toothpicks
- Green Cupcake Liners
Instructions
- Prepare Cake Batter: Start by preparing the cupcake batter according to the instructions on the white cake mix box, ensuring you follow the specified ratios and mixing steps for a smooth batter.
- Line Cupcake Pan: Line a cupcake baking pan with green cupcake liners to add a festive touch to your cupcakes.
- Fill and Bake: Fill each cupcake liner halfway with the prepared batter and bake them according to the time and temperature indicated on the cake mix box.
- Cool Cupcakes: After baking, allow the cupcakes to cool completely to room temperature to ensure the icing and decorations do not melt or slide off.
- Prepare Icing: Fill a piping bag fitted with your preferred piping tip with the white icing, getting ready to decorate.
- Pipe Icing: Starting in the middle of each cooled cupcake, pipe the white icing outward and upward to create a nice swirl or decorative pattern.
- Paint Golden Oreos: Using gold mist food paint, carefully paint each Golden Oreo cookie to create shiny ‘coins’ representing pots of gold.
- Insert Oreo Coins: Once the gold paint is dry, insert a toothpick through the center of each painted Oreo and place it towards the back edge of each cupcake for visual appeal.
- Add Marshmallow Clouds: Thread four mini marshmallows onto a toothpick and position this on top of the cupcake near the Oreo ‘coin’ to represent fluffy clouds.
- Prepare Rainbow Candy: Cut the Extreme Air Heads candy into thirds. Take two sections and curve them between the marshmallow clouds on each cupcake to create a colorful rainbow effect.
- Final Presentation: Adjust any decorations as needed, then serve your festive St. Patrick’s Day cupcakes and enjoy the fun combination of flavors and textures!
Notes
- Allow cupcakes to cool completely before icing to prevent melting.
- Use a small brush to apply gold mist food paint for more precision on Oreos.
- For best results, decorate cupcakes just before serving to keep marshmallows fresh.
- Extreme Air Heads candy can be substituted with similar chewy rainbow candy if unavailable.
