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    Home » Recipes » Kid's Treats

    Red, White, and Blue Cupcakes served in wine glasses

    Published: Jun 29, '20 · Modified: Aug 16, '23 · By: Beth Klosterboer · This post may contain affiliate links.

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    If you want a festive way to display your Red, White, and Blue Cupcakes for Memorial Day, 4th of July, Labor Day, or Veteran's Day, simply fill a plastic wine goblet or champagne flute with red, white, and blue candies and set the cupcake on top.

    Plastic wine glasses filled with red, white, and blue M&M's are topped with patriotic cupcakes.

    Here is a quick and easy way to dress up a simple homemade or store-bought cupcake for a party.

    Just grab some plastic wine glasses, goblets, or champagne flutes and fill them with some candy that either matches your cupcakes or fits your party theme, then set the cupcake on top.

    You can make these festive treats for any holiday or occasion by using different colored candies and cupcakes.

    red, white, and blue cupcakes served in plastic wine glasses filled with 4th of July M&Ms

    If you are hosting a party and don't have a nice cupcake display, or you are wanting to bring cupcakes to an event and you don't want to have to worry about getting your cupcake display back, this is a great alternative.

    You could even wrap these up in some clear cellophane and tie them with some ribbon. Imagine showing up at a bake sale with 24 of these. They would be a huge hit.

    So, let's make some cupcakes.

    4th of July cupcakes recipe ingredients including cake mix, egg whites, oil, sprinkles, frosting, and M&M's.

    Ingredients

    cake mix - I used a white cake mix so I could add some sprinkles inside my cupcakes but any cake mix will work fine.

    eggs (egg whites), oil, and water as listed on the cake mix box

    red, white, and blue jimmies - These will be mixed into the white cake batter.

    frosting - To make these 4th of July cupcakes I topped with cupcakes with a big swirl of white frosting. You can find my homemade white frosting recipe on my Panda Cake post. If you use store-bought frosting, be sure it is thick enough to hold its shape nicely. Wilton's frosting works great.

    red, white, and blue star sprinkles - I sprinkle the stars over my frosted cupcakes

    red, white, and blue M&M's or other candies to fill the plastic wine glasses like Sixlets, Skittles, or jelly beans

    Supplies

    4th of July cupcake wrappers - I used tin foil cupcake wrappers and they looked great on the outside of my cupcakes.

    cupcake pans - Most cupcake mixes make 20-24 cupcakes so you may need to use 2 pans.

    plastic wine glasses - Be sure to buy wine glasses that are large enough to hold a cupcake. 5.5-ounce to 6-ounce wine glasses work great.

    You can find the supplies you need to make these cupcakes on Amazon.com. I earn a small commission when you use the links below at NO extra cost to you.

       
       

    Instructions

    white cake batter in a mixing bowl next to two cupcake pans with tin foil no-fade 4th of July cupcake wrappers and a bowl of red and blue sprinkles.

    Make red, white, and blue cake batter.

    Make the cake batter according to the instructions on the box. You could doctor it up by adding 3 tablespoons of sour cream and 3 tablespoons of powdered instant vanilla or white chocolate pudding and using milk instead of water. That's my favorite way to make a delicious cake from a mix.

    To make the Funfetti-style cupcakes, stir in some red and blue (or red, white, and blue) jimmies into the cake batter.

    Scoop equal amounts of batter into cupcake liners in cupcake pans and bake according to the package instructions.

    white funfetti cupcakes filled with red and blue sprinkles are frosted with a big swirl of white frosting and topped with red, white, and blue stars.

    Frost cupcakes and add sprinkles.

    Once the cupcakes are baked and cooled, you can add a big swirl of white frosting on top.

    Then, sprinkle on red, white, and blue star-shaped sprinkles.

    NOTE: Frosting begins to crust over rather quickly, so add the sprinkles as you are frosting the cupcakes so it doesn't dry out so much that the sprinkles won't stick.

    Red, white, and blue M&M's in bags an in plastic wine glasses.

    Fill plastic wine glasses with candy.

    Fill your plastic wine glasses with red, white, and blue M&M's so that you have just enough room on top for a cupcake. You'll need to fill them at least halfway and possibly a little more.

    The cupcake needs to be near the top of the glass so that you can easily remove it from the wine glass.

    Red, White, and Blue M&M's

    During the summer months, you can often find bags of the three color M&M's mixed together, but if you can't, you can purchase bags of the individual colored M&M's to add to these desserts.

    Patriotic Red, White, and Blue Cupcakes in Wine Goblets with M&M's

    Storage

    Store your 4th of July cupcakes at room temperature for up to 3 days.

    If you serve these at a party, your guests might not eat the cupcake and all of the M&M's in the cup. You can wrap the glasses in plastic wrap or give them a small bag so they can take the M&M's home with them.

    Variations

    red, white, and blue 4th of July cupcakes topped with white chocolate fireworks topped with red, white, and blue sprinkles.

    Add a festive topper to your 4th of July cupcakes.

    To make these candy fireworks toppers, I piped melted white candy melts onto a parchment paper-lined baking sheet and then added red, white, and blue sprinkles on top. I popped them in the freezer for 5 minutes until the chocolate hardened and then inserted one into a frosted cupcake.

    They'd look super cute in the candy-filled wine goblets.

    Pipe on a pretty swirl of orange, yellow, and white frosting to your cupcakes then nestle them in plastic wine glasses filled with candy corn. These pretty Candy Corn Cupcakes are easy to make and will dress up your Halloween dessert table.

    You can fill your wine glasses with just about any candy. These Candy Corn Cupcakes are perfect for Halloween or Thanksgiving. I topped white cupcakes with a multi-colored swirl of yellow, orange, and white frosting.

    Mini Cupcakes in Candy Filled Shot Glasses are the perfect sized treats to serve at a kid's birthday party.

    If you feel the full-size cupcakes and glasses filled with candy are just too much, make them smaller. You can bake mini cupcakes and put them in candy-filled shot glasses. They look just as cute and are perfect for kid's parties.

    It's harder to find mini candy that is color-specific but there are plenty of tiny candies that will fit in the shot glasses like Nerds, Mini M&M's, and Mini Reese's Pieces.

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    Red, white, and blue drip cake decorated with stars and with a tye-dye inside.

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    Check out all of my festive 4th of July Recipes.

    Recipe

    This recipe was originally published on April 25, 2016.

    Serve Red, White, and Blue Cupcakes in plastic wine goblets or champagne flutes filled with candy. It's a quick and easy way to dress up a cupcake.
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    Red, White, and Blue Cupcakes Served in Goblets
    Prep Time
    45 mins
    Cook Time
    15 mins
     
    Red, white and blue sprinkle filled white cupcakes topped with white frosting and candy stars.
    Course: Dessert
    Cuisine: American
    Keyword: 4th of july dessert, cupcakes, red white and blue
    Servings: 24
    Calories: 400 kcal
    Author: Beth Klosterboer
    Ingredients
    • 1 white cake mix
    • eggs, oil, and water listed on the cake mix
    • ⅓ cup red, white, and blue Jimmies
    • 4 cups white frosting
    • 2-3 tablespoons red, white, and blue star sprinkles
    • 4-5 cups red, white, and blue M&M's or other candies
    Instructions
    1. Mix cake mix according to package instructions.

    2. Fold in red, white, and blue Jimmies (or just red and blue).

    3. Spoon the cupcake batter into 20-24 cupcake wrappers in cupcake pans.

    4. Bake according to package instructions.

    5. Cool completely.

    6. Pipe a swirl of white frosting on top and immediately sprinkle red, white, and blue star sprinkles over the swirl.

    7. Fill plastic wine glasses about ⅔ full with Red, White, and Blue M&M's.

    8. Set cupcakes on top of candy.

    Recipe Notes

    Store your cupcakes at room temperature for up to 3 days. 

    Calories are approximate based on 1 frosted cupcake and candy in a wine glass. 

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    1. Carolynnc

      May 17, 2018 at 4:08 pm

      Oh the ideas I have now. Thanks

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    2. Melissa_in_NJ

      April 25, 2016 at 3:45 pm

      oh wow, Beth, what a cute idea, and these are adaptable to so many different holidays and occasions. thank you!

      Reply
      • Beth

        April 25, 2016 at 10:00 pm

        Thanks, so much Melissa. I'm so glad you like this festive idea.

        Reply

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