Up in the Air Cupcakes

Instructions

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1. - Bake cupcakes. Prepare cake batter following recipe instructions. Bake and cool cupcakes in white cupcake liners.
2. -

   Tint icing. Using Royal Blue icing color, tint 1½ cups icing light blue. Using Royal Blue, Brown and Red icing colors, tint ½ cup icing each medium blue, brown and red.

   Reserve remaining icing white.

3. -

   Decorate cupcakes. Using light blue icing, spatula ice all the cupcakes.

   Prepare four decorating bags with couplers. Fill separately with medium blue, brown, red, and white buttercream.

   Cloud Cupcakes: Attach tip 10 to white bag; pipe fluffy swirls on cupcake to create cloud.

   Airplane Cupcakes: Attach tip 10 to white bag; pipe a long bead for the body of the plane. Switch to tip 6; pipe wings and tail. Attach tip 1 to red bag; pipe line details. Attach tip 1 to medium blue bag; pipe window details. Switch white bag to tip 2; pipe small clouds around the airplane.

   Hot Air Balloon Cupcakes: Using spatula, spread small amount of white icing into light blue icing to create clouds. Attach tip 1 to brown bag; pipe outline of basket. Fill in the basket with tight vertical lines, then pipe horizontal lines over the vertical ones, leaving space in between to look like a basketweave. Use a toothpick to outline the shape of the balloon. Attach tip 5 to both the medium blue and red bags. Beginning with red, pipe the outer lines, then the blue. Finish by piping a red line in the middle. Using brown bag with tip 1, add small cords to attach the balloon to the basket.