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Are you looking for that fun cupcakes that isn’t to sweet. Sour Patch Kids are known for being sour and then sweet, Right? Well try this spin with both tasty treats combined into one. You get your sour quickly followed by sweet. Perfect, fun, and color treat to bring to a party, keep for yourself, or share with friends! Fun to make and kids just love getting to pick their favorite color!
INGREDIENTS (Yields 24 Cupcakes)
CUPCAKES:
1 Cake Mix
3 Eggs (that’s what my cake mix called for)
1 cup Water (that’s what my cake mix called for)
1/3 cup Vegetable Oil (that’s what my cake mix called for)
ICING:
4 tbsp. milk
2 cup Butter softened
2 tsp Vanilla
8 cup Powdered Sugar
Neon Food Coloring
24 Sour Patch kids Candies
1/8 cup Sugar
1/8 cup Citric Acid (I found mine in the canning section at Walmart)
DIRECTIONS
Make cupcakes according to your cake package directions.
Let cool.
In a large bowl, cream the butter and add vanilla.
Mix in the confectioners sugar one cup at a time.
Beat in the milk
Divide equally based on the number of colors you want to make.
Mix food color into each portion to achieve the desired shade.
Transfer icing to a large sized ziploc bag or icing/piping Bag
Ice the top of each cupcake.
Mix together sugar and citric acid.
Dust the top of each cupcake with sugar mixture.
Place 1 Sour Patch Kid on top of each cupcake.
These cupcakes look super yummy. Would be really cute for a colorful birthday party.
These are so cute! Thanks for posting this recipe!!!
These look delicious! My son would love these for his birthday party.
These are so cute and festive. I love the vibrant colors! My kids would adore these!
Oh wow, those make my mouth water just looking at them! Lol Those seem so fun to make and so cute! I bet the kids would go crazy over them. Can’t wait to try. I can’t believe I’ve never seen them before! Thanks for sharing!
I love this idea. Looks yummy.
These look so delicious!
What an incredibly AWESOME idea! I’ll have to make these for the kiddos the next time they are over!
These are seriously beyond adorable.
This looks awesome! I may do this for my twin daughters birthday party.
These look really good. I love sour stuff, will have to see if my wife will make them.
My son loves gummy bears. I am going to try this! Visiting from http://www.heartofaphilanthropist.com
These look soooo good and they are too cute!! My granddaughter’s birthday is coming up soon and I would love to be able to make these. I love the fact that it is easy to make too. These will be a big hit, I am sure of that. Thanks for this recipe.