Introduction: How to Tie-Dye Frosting for Cupcakes!

Tie dyed frosting is any kids' dream! And since I have five kids of my own, I figured it was high time I found a way to tie dye frosting for cupcakes. Follow along for the easy tutorial!

Step 1:

Lay out a piece of plastic wrap and gather the colors you want to use for the frosting stripes. Don’t forget a little paintbrush - the cheap watercolor ones work great.

Step 2:

Dip the paintbrush in the gel color and paint stripes down the plastic wrap, about 5-6 inches in length and keeping an inch between each different colored stripe.

Step 3:

Colorful and stripey like this (I had yet to paint the yellow stripe in this picture ).

Step 4:

Plop a healthy amount of frosting right over the stripes. It’s ok if it doesn’t cover all the stripes because the
plastic will roll up over it.

Step 5:

Start rolling the plastic wrap over the frosting like a fat frosting log.

Step 6:

Each colored stripe should come in direct contact with the frosting once it is rolled up.

Step 7:

Take the ends of the plastic wrap and twist them - kind of like an old-fashioned candy wrapper.

Step 8:

Prepare the piping bag by snipping the tip and inserting a coupler.

Step 9:

Thread one end of the frosting log through the piping bag so you can grab the twisted “handle” from the
opening in the bag.

Step 10:

Grab the twisted “handle” and pull it through the bag as tightly as possible.

Step 11:

Snip the excess plastic as close to the plastic coupler as you can.

Step 12:

Quickly put on your piping tip (I’m using a Wilton 1M here).

Step 13:

Attach the outer coupler to secure the tip and you’re almost there!

Step 14:

Twist the top of the bag and secure with a twist tie or one of those handy-dandy plastic IKEA-like clips.

Step 15:

For the classic peaked frosted look, start with the frosting on the outside of the cupcake and swirl inward, gently releasing pressure as the frosting tops off.

Step 16:

Swirled and frosted - just like a tie-dyed cupcake should look!

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