Easy Galaxy Cupcakes (With Buttercream Icing)
Quick and easy galaxy cupcakes recipe, homemade with simple ingredients. Chocolate cupcakes are piped with a swirl of multicolored cosmic icing to look like outer space or the Milky Way.
Servings: 24 Cupcakes
Calories: 311kcal
Ingredients
- 24 Chocolate cupcakes
- 4 cups American buttercream frosting Colored bright pink, purple and blue
- 2 cups Black icing Can use store-bought black icing too
- ½ cup Sprinkle mix Combination of silver, gray and black jimmies, confettis, nonpareils, stars, sanding sugar, sugar crystals, rock candy
Instructions
- Bake cupcakes and allow them to cool completely.
- While cupcakes are cooling, prepare the colored frostings.
- Spread saran wrap on your counter.
- Pipe or roughly spoon rows of different colored icings. I like to use more black than other bright colors.
- Roll the saran wrap into a log and twist both ends.
- Slide it through a piping bag that's been attached with Wilton Tip # 1M.
- Snip off the saran wrap corner with scissors and when you squeeze the bag, the icing should be able to come through easily now.
- Roll the piping bag in your hands to allow the colors to roughly mix with each other.
- Finally, frost a swirl of icing on top of each cupcake.
- Cover it lightly with a pump of edible glitter spray (pink or silver) to give it some sheen.
- Toss sprinkles on top of the icicng. Stick some of the bigger sprinkle pieces like sugar crystals or rock candy or stars wherever you like, using tweezers (that you only use for food). Enjoy.
Notes
- Read all my tips above.
- Leftovers can be stored in a sealed container in the fridge for up to 3 days.
Nutrition
Calories: 311kcal | Carbohydrates: 50g | Protein: 2g | Fat: 11g | Saturated Fat: 3g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 4g | Monounsaturated Fat: 4g | Cholesterol: 1mg | Sodium: 210mg | Potassium: 54mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 39g | Vitamin A: 22IU | Vitamin C: 1mg | Calcium: 57mg | Iron: 1mg