Cupcake Project #24: Cupcake Kabobs

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I loooove a good BBQ! It's the only social event where you can eat food with your hands and be as sloppy as you dare without the side-eye fear of social ridicule. With the Fourth well underway, I thought that this fun and festive recipe would be perfect for celebrating the country's independence. Besides, what's more American than cupcakes? This cupcake kabob recipe is so easy, even a Critic can do it. Check it out!

Ingredients

• White cake cupcakes 
• Red Velvet cupcakes
• Blue food coloring 
• Large marshmallows
• ¼ cup of water
• White frosting (your recipe or container of Funfetti 4th of July frosting)
• Bamboo skewers
• Assorted sprinkles and colored sugars in patriotic colors
• Fruit –- strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, bananas whichever you prefer

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Prepare

Put the white frosting in a bowl and microwave until soft and smooth, about 15 seconds. Pour the sprinkles in separate bowls. For these kabobs, I used 3 bowls –1 for red sugar, 1 for blue sugar, and 1 for a mix of red, white and blue sprinkles and nonpareils. Get ¼ cup of water. You can leave this in the measuring cup. Put the large marshmallows in a bowl. Cut up your fruit into bite size pieces. Put your cooled cupcakes on a plate.

Take a mini cupcake and dip the top into the warmed frosting. Then dip into the sprinkles. Do this with all the mini cupcakes. You may need to reheat the frosting if the cupcakes start to get stuck in the bowl. Just reheat in 10-second increments until it’s smooth again. Keep dipping until all the cupcakes are done.

Grab a large marshmallow and dip one end into the water. Let any excess water drip off then dip one end into the red colored sugar. Turn it over and dip the other end into the water. Let excess water drop off then dip into the blue colored sugar. Set aside to dry.

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Assemble 

Take one bamboo skewer in your hand and slide a red cupcake down leaving at least 1” of skewer in your hand. Next, slide a marshmallow down, then a piece of fruit (for this skewer I used strawberries). Take a white cupcake and slide that down on top of the piece of fruit, followed with a marshmallow and another piece of fruit. Top the skewer off with the blue cupcake. Continue this until you’ve made as many skewers as you’d like.

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Original recipe can be found here