American flag cupcakes

We should all treasure our American holidays: Memorial Day, July 4, Veteran’s Day. I’m proud that as a country we celebrate those who serve to protect us and those who have fallen to save us. 

These cupcakes are my (small as it may be) way of saying thank you to those in my family who have served (my grandfather, several great uncles, my hubby, all of his brothers, his dad and our neice and nephew; the two youngest in Iraq). I hope you enjoy them and make them for your next American celebration!

Here’s what you’ll need to decorate your cupcakes:

• Red, white and blue icing (remember that gel food coloring work best)
• #46 icing tip
• Lollipop sticks
• 2 resealable plastic bags
• 2 icing tip connectors

And here are the simple steps:

1. Once cooled, ice your cupcakes with white icing {cream cheese is my fav!}.
2. Color some white icing red and some blue. You’ll likely use several drops to get even a small amount of icing bright enough.
3. Snip the corners of your resealable bags and insert your connectors.
4. Spoon your red icing into one bag and your blue into another.
5. Apply your #46 icing tip to your blue bag and using the flat side pipe three stripes (1/3 the length of your flag) and then another stripe from the top {see picture}.
6. Take your icing tip off the blue bag, clean it out and apply it to the red bag. Pipe the red stripes starting at the top of the flag using your blue stripes as a guide to keep them even. Make sure you skip just below the blue as that should be a white stripe.
7. Finally, cut a lollipop stick in half and apply it to the side of the flag for your pole.

Have a wonderful holiday and as always, I hope you’re inspired to craft, bake and create!

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