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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