Vanilla Mermaid Cupcakes

🧂 Ingredients

• ½ Cup Butter

  Room Temperature
• ¾ Cup Sugar
• 1 tsp Vanilla
• 2 Eggs
• 1 ½ Cups All-purpose flour
• 1 Tsp Baking Powder
• ½ Tsp Salt
• 1 Tsp Sour Cream
• ½ Cup Milk
• 1 Cup Butter

  Room Temperature
• 3 Cups Powdered Sugar
• 1 tsp Vanilla
• 2 tbsp Milk
• Wilton Candy Melts Blue
• Wilton Candy Melts Lavender
• Wilton Candy Melts Green
• Glitter Dust
• Mermaid sprinkles

Instructions

• 1 Preheat your oven to 350°F (177°C). Line a cupcake pan with 12 cupcake liners
  and set aside.
• 2 In another bowl, mix the flour, baking powder, and salt until well blended.
• 3 In a large bowl, beat the butter and sugar together with a stand mixer (or by
  hand) until the mixture is light, pale, and fluffy.
• 4 Add the dry ingredients into the butter mixture in three parts, alternating with
  milk and adding in the sour cream. Mix gently between each addition until just
  combined.
• 5 Use a large batter scoop to divide the cupcake batter evenly into the 12
  prepared liners.
• 6 Bake for 18–20 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out
  clean.
• 7 Remove cupcakes from the oven and let them cool completely on a wire cooling
  rack before frosting.
• 8 Add butter to a clean mixing bowl and beat for 5 minutes, until light and
  doubled in volume.
• 9 Add vanilla, then gradually add powdered sugar and milk, 1/2 cup at a time,
  beating well between additions.
• 10 Add your favorite food coloring (blue, lavender, teal) and continue beating for
  8–10 minutes, until smooth and fluffy.
• 11 Fill large piping bags using a spatula or spoon. Use jumbo round or French
  piping tips to frost cupcakes.
• 12 Place candy melts in squeeze bottles and set them in a saucepan of medium heat
  water (not boiling). Cover and let them melt on medium-low.
• 13 Once melted, invert bottles into a cup and let cool slightly until the chocolate
  settles to the tip.
• 14 Squeeze candy melt into mermaid tail molds, smooth the surface with a cake
  spatula, and place the tray in the fridge for 10 minutes to set.
• 15 Remove the set candy tails from the molds and place them on a baking sheet. Use
  a food-safe brush to apply edible glitter dust.
• 16 Once cupcakes are frosted, gently press a mermaid tail into each one. Finish
  with mermaid sprinkles for a magical touch.

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