Memorial Day Cupcakes

Happy Memorial Day!  Well, Happy Belated Memorial Day!

I was busy over Memoriald Day weekend making some fun cupcakes for our Memorial Day BBQ.  I started out by making my french vanilla cupcake receipe, except this time I added 1/2 cup of applesauce to try and get a more moist cake.  It was definitely much better this time but still needs more vanilla and maybe a tad more moistness still. 

So my goal was to make hamburger cupcakes!  I started out by cutting my vanilla cupcakes in half.  I mixed up some green frosting and put it into my icing bag with the leaf tip and off I went decorating the bottom half of the vanilla cupcake with what I was hoping would look like lettuce.  Next was the burger...I had frozen some of my chocolate cupcakes from the last batch, so out of the freezer those came to defrost and then I cut those in half too. I then took a half of a chocolate cupcake and put it on top of the 'lettuce'.  Next I mixed up some red frosting and drizzled that over the top to look like ketchup - here I am at this point:

Next came yellow icing for mustard and then put the top half of the vanilla cupcake back on and sprinkled some sesame seeds on the top so it looked like a bun!  What do you think?

With the rest of the vanilla cupcakes I decided to go patriotic.  I took the rest of the red frosting from the "ketchup" I made and put that into my icing bag and then put some white icing in on top of that.  That gave it the 'tie dyed' look you see below:

The blue I did after the red ran out of the bag - just added blue frosting to the white that was already in my bag and then started icing.  You'll notice that some of them have a darker color than others - that just means it was closer to the end of the white at the time.

All in all it was a really fun project!  Next up I think I might try a friend of mine's recipe for coconut cupcakes!  MMM but what kind of frosting? Any suggestions?