Cupcake Tuesday~Luck of the Irish
Welcome to Cupcake Tuesday! If you are new here, grab a cup of tea or a glass of milk and enjoy a cupcake!
St. Patrick’s Day is Wednesday! I couldn’t let another Cupcake Tuesday go by without sharing yet another fun green dessert with you. 
A special Thank you to all who linked up last week, I will be making a donation to our local Girl Scouts and also sharing some cupcakes with them.
Recently while visiting Amanda, over at I Am Baker, I fell in love with her St. Pattys Day Cake, all the different shades of green are so eye catching. I knew I had to try it in a cupcake.
I started with a white cake batter, you can find several really good recipes on my Cupcake Heaven page, toward the bottom. I divided the batter, then added green food color to each bowl.
- Layer 1 = 1 drop
- Layer 2 = 4 drops
- Layer 3 = 8 drops
- Layer 4 = 12 drops
- Layer 5 = 14 drops
Then I filled each cupcake liner with a heaping teaspoon of each color, and baked them at 350 degrees for about 15 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean.
I think they turned out pretty cute! I think next time I will bake them in the jumbo cupcake pans, so that each layer has more batter and will show up more.
I frosted them with Buttercream Frosting, sprinkled them with green sugar, white nonpareils and Andes’ Mint Chips.
Now it’s your turn! Please share your cupcake or muffin recipe! For the guidelines, you can visit Cupcake Tuesday.
Please be sure to link back to this post (I’ve had several links that were not linked back here) and visit some (or all) of the other participants.
I’m trying a new linky this week, I discovered it while linking up over at Chatting at the Sky, it includes a picture and I thought it would be fun to be able to see all of your cupcakes and muffins. Just follow the prompts, it really easy. I added a link so you could see what it looks like.
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Category: Cupcake Tuesday/Cupcakes, Holidays
I love the cupcakes they are so great! Layering is such a great idea. You executed it so well
I love the new linky!
Diane {createdbydiane.blogspot.com}´s last blog ..snow
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I love all the different colors! They are so pretty
Nutmeg Nanny´s last blog ..Chocolate Guinness Sauce
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CupcakeLady Reply:
March 16th, 2010 at 8:47 am
@Nutmeg Nanny, You are the best ever!!! Thanks so much for reading all my posts and commenting!
~Liz
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Those are so cool!!
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awesome idea! I love the fading color, really beautiful!
shelly (cookies and cups)´s last blog ..Samoa on a Stick
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The layering of color here is absolutely BRILLIANT! Can I have some?
Amy @ Positively Splendid´s last blog ..Using Inkscape to easily create SVG files
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those look really good
pamela ponder´s last blog ..JOIN IN ON A SPRING SWAP!
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Hi there!
I love your site and recipes! Thanks for the MckLinkey! What a great St. Patrick’s Day cupcake!
Jane´s last blog ..My First Giveaway!
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CupcakeLady Reply:
March 16th, 2010 at 11:12 am
@Jane, Welcome Jane! I’m so glad you found me!
~Liz
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I love the new linky-really great!
Diane {createdbydiane.blogspot.com}´s last blog ..snow
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I love how you gave your cupcakes that changing shades of green. I could have never figured it out.
Although, I am not a fan of mints on sweets so I guess I’ll just skip the mint part. Thank you for sharing this post, learned something new today!
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Ooh…love those green cupcakes! And yes, love the new linky!
Staci Brown´s last blog ..Friday Favorites – Fonts
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Thanks for passing on to Smockity the problems with leaving a comment on my post. I had no idea that comments were closed. It’s fixed now! At least on that post.=)
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CupcakeLady Reply:
March 17th, 2010 at 3:53 pm
@deputyheadmistress, Good, I’m glad you got the message. I’ll head over later and leave you a comment!
~Liz
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These are so cute. I need to make these with the grandchildren next year.
darnold23´s last blog ..CROCK POT WEDNESDAY a Revisit for St. Pat’s
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