Mardi Gras Cupcakes French Vanilla Butter Rum
Fun colorful Mardi Gras Cupcakes flavored with buttered rum and french vanilla cake are perfect for Mardi Gras to celebrate Fat Tuesday!
We love cupcakes for every occasion like these Lemon Filled Cupcakes for Easter, Bailey’s Irish Cream Cupcakes for St. Patrick’s Day, Red White and Blue Cupcakes for Fourth of July and Chocolate Covered Strawberry Cupcakes for Valentine’s Day.
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The King Cake might be the traditional sweet on Mardi Gras, but these fun cupcakes are decorated with traditional Mardi Gras colors: purple represents justice, green represents faith and gold represents power.
LET’S MAKE MARDI GRAS CUPCAKES
(full printable recipe at the end of this post)
Don’t be intimidated by the long recipe, it’s all really very easy. They are just as delicious if you leave the frosting white, so if you don’t want to mess with the food color and three colors of frosting, you can just skip that step!
French Vanilla Butter Rum Cupcakes
Preheat your oven to 350° F and line a cupcake pan with cupcake papers.
Place French Vanilla cake mix, French vanilla pudding mix, cinnamon, nutmeg, eggs, vanilla extract, cold milk, melted butter and rum in a large mixing bowl. Using an electric mixer, beat on low for 1 minute. Continue beating on medium-high for 1 more minute. Do not over mix.
Pour cupcake batter into lined cupcake pans and bake for 22-24 mins. Cool on a rack.
Next, you will make a Butter Rum Glaze with butter, water, sugar, and rum in a saucepan on the stove.
Once the cupcakes have baked and cooled, you will dip the tops in the butter rum glaze and top with buttercream frosting!
How To Decorate Mardi Gras Cupcakes
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The hardest part about these Mardi Gras cupcakes was piping the three colors of buttercream on top. Wilton has this 3-COLOR COUPLER that would be a big help! – note, I did NOT use this, but it has great reviews on Amazon.
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These cupcakes were FAN-TAS-TIC!
Seriously… GO…make these… now!! My kitchen smelled SOOOO wonderful even the next day!
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The King Cake might be the traditional sweet on Mardi Gras, but these fun cupcakes are decorated with traditional Mardi Gras colors: purple represents justice, green represents faith and gold represents power. *I have to be honest, piping 3 colors was NOT an easy task, only about 1/2 of my cupcakes came out looking good, the others were either missing a color, or the colors started to mix and looked gray or brow!! How did I do it?- I divided my frosting into 3 bowls and colored each. I then spooned a big scoop of each color into the bag, trying the best I could to get them side by side. I then squeezed the frosting into another bowl until all three color started to come out—then I piped onto the cupcakes, using my 1M tip. UPDATE: This Wilton 3-color coupler would work! and it has GREAT reviews As an Amazon Associate and member of other affiliate programs, I earn from qualifying purchases. Nutrition information is estimated based on the ingredients and cooking instructions as described in each recipe and is intended to be used for informational purposes only. Please note that nutrition details may vary based on methods of preparation, origin, and freshness of ingredients used.
Mardi Gras Cupcakes | French Vanilla Butter Rum
Ingredients
French Vanilla Butter Rum Cupcakes
Butter Rum Glaze
Butter Cream Frosting
Instructions
French Vanilla Butter Rum Cupcakes
Butter Rum Glaze
Butter Cream Frosting
Notes
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Nutrition Information:
Yield: 24
Serving Size: 1
Amount Per Serving:
Calories: 393Total Fat: 28gSaturated Fat: 15gTrans Fat: 1gUnsaturated Fat: 11gCholesterol: 83mgSodium: 362mgCarbohydrates: 31gFiber: 0gSugar: 22gProtein: 2g
Lovely cupcakes 😀
I can’t help but notice that the sides of the cupcakes are pretty straight . Which pan did you use to achieve this ?
I’m not sure what you mean straight, but I just used a normal cupcake pan, hope that helps
Cheryl–I had to PIN these on my board. These cookies and swirly colors looks fantastic. The photography is primo!
One of the tricks that I’ve seen for piping triple colors is to streak the inside of your piping bag with the gel coloring and then fill it with the vanilla buttercream. As you pipe, it will pick up the colors on the side of the bag. I haven’t tried it yet but it’s on my to do list!!
How many cupcakes does this yield?
If I leave out the 1/2 cup of rum do I need to increase the amount of milk?
I’ve never made them without rum, but from what I’ve read I think I would use 1/2 pineapple juice flavored with a little almond extract (1/2 – 1 teaspoon)Keep us posted if you make them!!