Ingredients
- 1 French vanilla cake mix
- 3 eggs
- ½ C 1 stick of softened unsalted sweet cream butter
- 1 C whole milk
- 1 TBSP pure vanilla bean paste
- cupcake liners
- cupcake pan
Frosting
- 1 C unsalted sweet cream butter softened
- 2 ½ C powder sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 3-5 TBSP heavy whipping cream
- Red food coloring
- medium star tip and pastry bag
- Ingredients for the icing transfers
- 2 egg whites
- 1 ½ C powder sugar
- ¼ tsp cream of tarter
- ½ tsp vanilla
- five piping bags fitted with the number 2 tip
- red black, blue, and yellow food dye
- lightening mcqueens eyes image from google
- pen or pencil to trace the image
- piece of white paper
- Cookie sheet
- parchment paper
- 5 bowls
Instructions
Directions for Cupcakes
- Preheat oven to 350 and line cupcake pan with the liners
- In a medium bowl, combine the cake mix, butter, milk, and vanilla bean pasta and mix until combined
- Using a medium ice cream scoop, scoop the batter into the cupcake liners and fill about 3/4 of the way full
- Bake in the oven for about 21 minutes
- Pull out and place on the side to cool
Frosting
- Using a standing mixer, combine all ingredients except the food coloring into the bowl and mix on medium speed
- If your frosting starts looking like powdery rocks, add another tablespoon of heavy whipping cream
- Mix until you see creamy stiffed peaks
- Separate the frosting into three bowls
- Add red dye into the bowl and mix until combined
- Add a few more drops in to get a bright red
- Fit the star tip into the piping bag
- Scoop the red frosting into the piping bag
- Twist the top of the piping bag and squeeze the frosting down
- Take your cooled cupcake and frosting the cupcake from the outer edge
- Gently peel off lightening's eyes and place onto the top center of the cupcake
- Add two yellow dots below his eyes, in the corner for the headlights
- Add 4 black dots, 2 on each side, for tires
Directions to make transfer
- Locate the image of lightening McQueens eyes on google and print it out
- Take your piece of paper and place on top of the image
- Using a pen or pencil trace the image onto the white paper about 3-4 times 4 inches apart
- Place the paper with the copies onto the cookie sheet
- Fit a sheet of parchment paper onto the cookie sheet and tape the edges so that you have a smooth flat area
- Using the standing mixer, combine the powder sugar, egg whites, cream of tarter and vanilla and mix on medium speed
- if the royal icing is still a yellow soup, add in 1/2 C powder sugar
- Continue to mix until you get stiff peaks
- Evenly divide the icing into the five bowls,
- Add a few red drops into the first bowl and mix until combined.
- Add a few more drops to get the shade of red that you want
- Add a few blue drops to the second bowl
- Add a few yellow drops to the third bowl
- Add a few black drops to the fourth bowl
- Leave the white icing in the fifth bowl white
- Scoop the icing colors into a piping bag
- Using the black icing, outline the place lines on lightening's eyes
- Using the red icing, fill in the top part red
- Using the white icing, fill in the bottom part white
- Using the blue icing, add two blue dots for his eyes
- Using the black icing again, add a dot into the center of the blue dot for his pupils
- Using the yellow icing, below lightenings eyes on a empty space on the cookie sheet, pipe on 24 small yellow dots for lightening's headlights
- Using the black icing, pipe on 48 medium sized black circles for the tires
- Set aside for 1 day to dry.