Look at these cupcakes! Aren’t they adorable? Perfect for a St. Patrick’s Day celebration or special occasion.
You can use your favorite confetti cupcake recipe (I used the one from Sally’s Baking Addiction, link below) and then substitute Lucky Charm cereal milk for the whole milk, using same measurements. To create the cereal milk, place 3 cups of cereal in a bowl and cover with 2 cups of milk. Place a bowl or plate over the top of the cereal, so it is all pressed underneath into the milk. Let is sit and steep for 45 minutes.
NOTE: You can just use your favorite cupcake recipe as is – I just thought this would be fun to try the cereal milk. You could get by with 1 1/2 cups of milk and 1 cup of cereal.
Strain the cereal out of the milk – now you have cereal milk. Use it to replace the milk in your cupcake recipe.
When you use rainbow sprinkles mix them very gently to just combine into the batter.
Only fill the cupcake liners 2/3 full when making sprinkle cupcakes, they tend to overflow easily…less is more.
Bake until a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean. Let cool completely.
Mix up your favorite buttercream or cream cheese icing. I made a cream cheese icing with 1/2 cup softened butter, 8 oz softened cream cheese, 4 cups powdered sugar, 1 tablespoon of the cereal milk (or regular milk) and 2 teaspoons of vanilla. Combine these and mix until creams – 2-4 minutes. Add more powdered sugar or milk, as needed. Place in piping bag. I used Ateco 849 piping tip. Frost the cupcakes, a few at a time.
I used finely chopped Lucky Charm marshmallows and edible gold leaf flakes to decorate the cupcakes. I sprinkled on the Lucky Charm bits and used a pair of tweezers to apply the gold leaf. This would be fun on birthday party cupcakes.
You can find the edible gold leaf on the Amazon site:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07P9V6XWX/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
It took me a little while to apply the gold leaf, so I just frosted about 3 cupcakes at a time, so the frosting didn’t have a chance to dry out before I topped them with the cereal and gold leaf.
They just look happy and ready to party!
Fun to St. Patrick’s Day or birthday parties!
YUM!
I made some mini-cupcakes with the remaining batter.
Added some color to them too! Have fun with sprinkles and gold leaf!
For the recipe and instructions on how to make the Confetti Sprinkle Cupcakes, click on the link below:
https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/confetti-cupcakes/
These were inspired by the Lucky Charm Cereal Milk Confetti Cupcakes on this site:
