Ombre Buttercream Frosting for Cupcakes

🧂 Ingredients

• 1 cup Butter

  Room Temperature
• 3 tbsp Milk
• 2 tsp Vanilla
• 4 cups Powdered Sugar
• Food Coloring

  pink and purple

Instructions

• 1 First, measure out all of the buttercream frosting ingredients with the
  measuring cup and spoons.
• 2 Then, beat the room temp butter by itself in a stand mixer for 5 minutes, or
  until it is double in size and creamy.
• 3 Next, pour in the milk and vanilla, and beat the ingredients together for a
  minute.
• 4 Then, add in the powdered sugar ½ cup at a time, mixing well between each
  addition.
  
  I like to keep my mixer on a low speed for this step, otherwise, the kitchen
  gets covered in powdered sugar.
• 5 After mixing in all the powdered sugar, run the mixer on high speed for 8
  minutes.
• 6 Then, grab the metal piping tips.
• 7 Cut the tips of 3 piping bags for the piping tips to slide through.
• 8 Prepare the bags with the tips by sliding the piping tips through the holes from
  the inside of the bags.
• 9 Next, grab the pink and purple food coloring.
• 10 Add a drop of pink food coloring into the frosting and beat it until the color
  is completely mixed in.
• 11 Then, scoop ⅓ of the pink buttercream into one of the prepared piping bags.
  Close the bag with a piping bag tie.
• 12 Next, add a drop of purple coloring into the pink frosting and beat it again
  until the purple is completely mixed in.
• 13 Scoop ½ of the light purple buttercream into a separate prepared piping bag.
  Secure the bag with a bag tie.
• 14 Both frosting bags should have the same amount of frosting.
• 15 Then, add another drop of purple coloring into the remaining frosting.
• 16 Beat the frosting again until a deep purple color is completely mixed in.
• 17 Finally, scoop the remaining deep purple buttercream into the last prepared
  piping bag and secure it with a tie. Pipe on cupcakes and enjoy!

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