Step
1
Bake cupcakes in Patriotic Themed Standard Baking Cups and cool completely on Cooling Grid.
Step
2
Prepare Buttercream Icing recipe. Tint 1/3 of icing with Royal Blue Icing Color. Tint another 1/3 of icing with Christmas Red Icing Color.
Step
3
For stripes, pipe alternating stripes of red and white icing on half of cupcake using Open Star Decorating Tip 21. Pipe in remaining half with blue icing stripes using Open Star Decorating Tip 21.
Step
4
For stars, roll out Ready-to-Use White Rolled Fondant to a 1/8 inch thickness with Perfect Height Rolling Pin. Use Star Bite-Size Perimeter Cutter to cut out 2 fondant stars for each cupcake.
Step
5
Arrange fondant stars on blue icing on cupcake.