Olympic Cupcakes ~ Cupcake Tuesday
Welcome to Cupcake Tuesday! If you are new here, grab a cup of tea or a glass of milk and enjoy a cupcake!
And a special Welcome to the Valpo Life readers. Valparaiso is a city near my hometown, LaPorte. I was recently asked to share my cupcakes on their website.
We have been having fun watching the Olympics. I shared our Olympic Dinner that we had on Friday for the Opening Ceremonies.
Did you know that there are 5 Olympic rings, blue, black, red, yellow and green? The rings represent the 5 continents (America, Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia) and were originally designed in 1913 by Baron Pierre de Coubertin, adopted in 1914 and debuted at the Olympic Games at Antwerp, in 1920. Cupcakes and a history lesson too 🙂
After tinting Buttercream Frosting the 5 different colors, I used the “old fashioned” way and simply frosted with a knife. I wanted them to look smooth on top instead of having a pattern or design.
I used 6 of each color, except blue and red, I used 5, the circles fit together better that way.
If you wrote a post about the Olympics, come on over and join in the fun!
I gathered my history of the Olympic rings from Wikipedia.
Now it’s your turn! Please share your cupcake or muffin recipe! For the guidelines, you can visit Cupcake Tuesday. Be sure to link back to this post and visit some (or all) of the other participants.
CONGRATS!!!!! I just saw YOUR cupcakes are on Cupcakes take the cake today.
http://cupcakestakethecake.blogspot.com/2010/02/olympics-cupcakes.html
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Thanks so much! I was excited to see it posted too!
~Liz
Awww how cute 🙂
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Thank you for the trivia. 🙂 The cupcakes looks good. Well, the Olympic fever is definitely here and I am sure everyone has their own bet.
Hope to see cupcake inspired by the olympic mascots soon.
Cheers!
I LOVE the Olympic rings! How fun! I plan to link up to you more often! Thanks for doing this!!!
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Great job! They look so neat! I am making red, white, and blue cupcakes for our family olympic dinner tomorrow. I never thought of icing the cupcakes to look like the rings. TFS!
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AWESOME!!! Such a great job!
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Cute idea! I should have gotten into the Olympics more this year. Fun stuff!
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What a GREAT way to celebrate the Olympics:-)