After you have had a few margaritas you might be craving something sweet and these easy to make Cinco De Mayo Cupcakes are just what you are craving. These fun little holidays like Cinco De Mayo provide an opportunity to get creative, without have to delve full throttle into a homemade treat.
There is nothing more fun than a Cinco de Mayo party as the foods are fun, and happen only one time per year. Preparing the Cinco de Mayo party requires a few good recipes and some great food in order to have a really grand celebration.
I have found however that it does not take a lot of effort to prepare a party with food that is great tasting, however you just have to be a little bit inventive with products that are already out there. I was in need of an easy-to-create cupcake that my family would eat, and delight on, however I was very short on time.
Necessity is the mother of invention as they say and I opened my pantry and decided to take two tastes that definitely rivet the Cinco De Mayo flair and combine them. This is my recipe for Easy To Make Cinco de Mayo cupcakes with a great icing as I Lavishly live food out loud!
Easy To Make Cinco De Mayo Cupcakes
Don’t get too excited because I am not teaching you how to make cupcakes from scratch, but I am going to share a box of heaven with you that mixes well with the Cinco De Mayo theme. I also want to preface that I am not preferential to brand, so if you find a different brand use it, this is simply what I had in my pantry(on hand) so I used this brand, there are others out brands out there.
Step One
There is a great cake mix out there it is called a Key Lime cake mix. Simply by this mix prepare as instructions on the box, and place into cupcake wrappers.
Step Two
Cupcake wrappers make or break the presentation of a cupcake, find a good one and your cupcakes looks great, use a lame one and well you have a lame cupcake.
Turn up the decor just a bit and invest in those foil ones if you don’t go to a specialty store to find cool cupcake wrappers!
The pretty wrappers makes the cupcakes look quite festive and then when you add fancy foil picks you really get a great festive look!
Step Three
After creating the cupcakes, and allowing them to cool- I whipped up a batch of my famous icing but wait till you see how easy it is to make this icing. I used to cringe when I would buy the already made icing, as it was far too sweet as well as far too thick to stir! I also never like how it looked the top the cupcake.
What I have found is revolutionary and something that many of us keep in our freezer is already. Grab that frozen whipped topping (no matter what brand) When defrosted and you add-in things that you like to flavor it or give it color, you will kick yourself for not having used this before!
I simply allow the Whipped Topping to come to room temperature while defrosting in the refrigerator. After it is defrosted I place it in a bowl, and I added my own personal cinnamon sugar mixture that I keep in a container (2 parts cinnamon, 1 part sugar).
Stir to taste, then place this delicious whipped topping atop the Key Lime cupcakes. This was perfect for Cinco de Mayo cupcakes as with many Mexican Desserts you will note there is a cinnamon taste enveloped (Churros, Deep Fried Ice Cream, etc)
Step Four
Deck out those pretty cupcakes with foil picks to give them even more ‘fiesta power’ and then enjoy.
Making the cupcakes took about 45 minutes from start to finish and the cake batter was minimal prep. The baking allowed me to get other things done, and then as they cooled, I made sure to gather all of the items for the topping, cinnamon, picks, sprinkles etc.
Do note these should be refrigerated if they are all not eaten during your celebration as this is a whipped topping and needs refrigeration. Enjoy making this easy to make Cinco De Mayo Cupcakes and lavishly live the Cinco De Mayo Out loud! Fiesta!
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