Do you love decorating or making fun desserts for patriotic holidays or events? While it may sound a bit crazy, I love baking during the summer. Sure, it means our house gets a bit hot but it’s fun making yummy desserts that everyone will love at an outdoor picnic. I especially love baking for patriotic holidays and getting help making absolutely adorable cupcakes. This year, I decided to make some fun camouflage cupcakes, allowing me to add a fun, patriotic twist to one of our favorite cupcake recipes. The cupcakes are fairly easy to make and best of all, they are quite yummy! I mean, what’s better than having a fun military themed cupcakes on 4th of July, Veterans Day, or even at a war themed birthday party.
Really, the hardest part of this recipe is dealing with the icing, which is more patience than anything else. So, what do you think? Are these adorable patriotic cupcakes or what? Feel free to tell us what you think of our Patriotic Camouflage Cupcake recipe below!
Note: Special thanks to my friends Krista from Adventures of Country Divas for helping me with this recipe and pictures!
- 2 Cups flour
- 1½ tsp baking powder
- 1 Cups sugar
- ½ Cups sweet cream butter
- ½ Cups whole milk
- 2 eggs
- 1½ tsp vanilla extract
- food colors
- 3 Cups powdered sugar
- ½ Cup sweet cream butter
- 2 TBSP heavy whipping cream
- Food coloring
- Preheat the oven to 350 degree and line your cupcake pan.
- In a mixing bowl, combine the flour and baking soda. Set aside.
- Using a stand mixer, cream the sugar and butter for about 3 minutes.
- Add the eggs one at a time to the butter mixture and then the vanilla extract. Mix well.
- Slowly add the flour mixture and milk to the butter mixture. Mix well.
- Divide the batter into 3 bowls - one bowl add green food coloring, one bowl brown, and the last bowl black. Stir well.
- Add a spoonful of black batter to the bottom of the cupcake liners. Then a spoonfull of brown, and a spoonful of green. Cupcake liners should be no more than ¾ full.
- Bake for 12 - 14 minutes or until cupcakes are done (toothpick comes out clean).
- Allow to cool completely before icing.
- Cream the butter and sugar. Mix well.
- Add the whipping cream and stir until still peaks begin to form. If you are not seeing peaks, add more sugar slowly.
- Divide the frosting into 3 bowls. In one bowl, add 5 drops of green food coloring, in the second 5 drops of black, and the third 5 drops of brown. Keep the last bowl white.
- Begin to add the frostings to a pastry bag with your desired tip.
- Start with adding 1 spoonful of green frosting. With the back of a spoon, flatten the green frosting. Turn the pastry bag .
- Start with adding 1 spoonful of black frosting. With the back of a spoon, flatten the black frosting. Turn the pastry bag .
- Add 1 spoonful of brown frosting. With the back of a spoon, flatten the brown frosting. Turn the pastry bag .
- Add 1 spoonful of green frosting. With the back of a spoon, flatten the green frosting. Turn the pastry bag .
- Add 1 spoonful of white frosting. With the back of a spoon, flatten the white frosting. 10. Test to see that all of the colors comes out before starting to frost your cupcakes. Frost cupcakes & repeat until all the cupcakes are frosted.
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Susan Bewley is a professional writer who has been writing content online & in print format for over 10 years. As well, she is an alumni of the University of Louisville with a Masters Degree in Special Education. When not working as an online business consultant or ghost writing, she can be found writing on Budget Earth, on her own novel, or working with various entities in the pet industry.
Thankyou for sharing this wonderful recipe! I really would like to make the Camouflage Cupcakes. They really look Patriotic. They would be great for the fourth of July, Veterans Day and Memorial Day!! They would also be perfect for any party for a going away or coming Home Party! Jut love them. Great Job! :0)~~~
Very creative! I love these cupcakes! I’ve gotta make them!
This sounds pretty good. The frosting does look tricky. It looks nice but I doubt that I’d be able to look like that.
Theses cupcakes look so yummy
My family would love these!! Such a cute idea for a boys birthday party. I might have to use this!
Thanks for the delicious recipe on Patriotic Camouflage Cupcake Recipe! These are really cute and very patriotic! I really love this idea! I saved the recipe to try at some time! Thanks again for the delicious recipe on Patriotic Camouflage Cupcake Recipe! Thanks Again! I truly appreciate it! Thanks again! Michele
These are super cool for sure!!! I def wouldnt have the patience or the time for these
Oh these looks great and tasty! my 2 nephews would love these as they are into everything camo and pretty much wear it everyday! I think i will try these out and surprise them at family bbq on the 4th. Thanks for sharing it.
totally agree love baking for holidays..love these cupcakes
Those are so adorable! I can’t wait to try these out!
I love this idea! The frosting does sound challenging, but I can’t wait to try and frost with this technique.
I love this recipe! It’s not only wonderful for the 4th of July but, also for my teen aged son’s birthday.
New to your blog, Love this !! Cant wait to try. Thx for sharing
Those look awesome!
looks to hard for me to do but it really looks cool.
These cupcakes look amazing, very creative. I can’t wait to try this. Thank you for sharing this recipe.
wow! can’t wait to try these! thanks for sharing! 🙂
Wow, I’ve never seen camouflage cupcakes before, those cupcakes look amazing! I’ll definitely have to give this recipe a try, thanks for posting!
These are the most awesome cupcakes that I have ever seen! Thanks for sharing this. I’m going to have to try this 🙂
You have good dessert recipes. I’d love to see more of them.Especially the copy cat recipes.
I love these cupcakes They turned out so nice. I will give these a try soon. Thank you for sharing
theses cupcakes look yummy, their neat looking
These cupcakes look very appealing and the recipe seems too be very easy. I wish that I had had this recipe when my brother came home from Pakistan; he would have love them!!
This frosting is so clever! I’m also thinking of all the different colors you could use for different holidays and occasions too!
I wouldn’t be able to get the frosting right. These look good, I just don’t have the patience to make them look this nice.
These are so amazing! Thank you for sharing this recipe with us.
This is such a great idea! Awesome for patriotism and also something different for me to make on the 4th!
These are so cute! Next time I go grocery shopping I’ll get the ingredients and make these.
This looks like it would be a great idea for Veteran’s Day, coming right up. The kids are off from school anyway, so it will be tasty for the day.
These are cool cupcakes! I will definitely keep these in mind for Labor Day!