We celebrated my mom’s birthday and my son’s birthday less than two weeks ago. Our party (which you’ll all hear about soon in a blog post) was actually on Sunday, June 1st. But, to celebrate both birthdays at church, I made Blue Velvet Cupcakes for our church potluck. {And yes, they were a BIG hit!}
The Duncan Hines Blue Velvet Cake Mix is so easy to make and so pretty! You just need 3 large eggs, 2/3 cup of water, and 8 T of softened butter. The consistency is much different than other cake mix I’ve used but it spooned into my cupcake pan easily and baked well.
We used a cute cupcake decorating kit that was left over after Easter and I made what I like to call Flower Power Blue Velvet Cupcakes. My daughter had so much fun helping put each individual flower candy on top of the frosting. She also helped add green food coloring to the frosting. We thought a light green frosting would be fun with the color scheme.
When we brought the cupcakes out after lunch at church, there were plenty of compliments about the fun blue color. We sang to my mom and Little Man both separately. His cupcake had a Tow Mater candy from the Disney movie Cars on top instead of candy flowers and flower pick. He also had two white candles in his, which we lit.
He didn’t like the lit candles. At all. He quickly started to cry. So I took his cupcake from him and gave him his own Flower Power Blue Velvet cupcake which he gobbled down quickly. In fact, he had two cupcakes. All 24 cupcakes went fast and then the kids asked when I was bringing more for church potluck. The cake is nice and moist and quite tasty. I really like the texture of a velvet cake mix.
Little do the kids at church know that I also have a Pink Velvet Cake Mix which I will be making this weekend for church. I think I will be topping this one with lemon frosting!
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These new colors would be perfect for a gender reveal party or baby shower.
I agree! They’d be perfect!
Those look really yummy! I’ve tried the pink – turned them into Moscato Cupcakes and the blue I sliced up and topped with cream. Your cupcakes look better! 😀
I am making the pink for church potluck too. My daughter picked out the lemon frosting to go with it. Fun!
Those are so precious! Perfect spring cupcake or they would be really cute for a birthday party.
The pink velvet looks awesome!
I have never seen blue velvet cupcakes before.
Those are absolutely adorable and fun for summer parties! I’ve never seen blue velvet options before!
We love velvet anything in our house and are making red velvet mousse this weekend. I love Duncan Hines cake mixes because they are the moistest and tastiest of them all.
I want to try the Duncan Hines Frosting
I would love to try their Strawberry Cheesecake Cupcake Mix. YUM!
These look yummy! I wannahttp://www.duncanhines.com/products/cakes/strawberry-cheesecake-decadent-cupcake-mix/ try the Strawberry Cheesecake Cupcakes that I found at the Duncan Hines site!
I would like to try the strawberry cheesecake cupcake mix.
i would love to try the Signature French Vanilla Cake Mix
Strawberry Cheesecake Cupcake Mix
http://www.duncanhines.com/products/cakes/summer-velvets-cake-mix/