Sunset Cupcakes

• Vegetarian

• Baking & Spices

  • 1 Cake mix, orange
  • 5 cups Confectioners' sugar
  • 1 Gel food coloring, yellow and orange
  • 1 Lemon cake mix
  • 2 tsp Vanilla extract

• Dairy

  • 1/2 cup Butter
  • 8 oz Cream cheese
  • 1 Milk

Found on ladybehindthecurtain.com

Description

Ingredients

• 1 lemon cake mix (plus ingredients on the box to make cupcakes)
• 1 orange cake mix (plus ingredients on the box to make cupcakes)
• optional:yellow and orange gel food coloring
• 8 ounce cream cheese, softened
• 1/2 cup butter, softened
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 5 to 6 cups confectioners sugar
• milk
• yellow and orange gel food coloring

Directions

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Line 48 muffin cups with cupcake liners.
• Mix lemon cake mix as the package directs.
• To intensify the yellow color add yellow gel food color.
• Fill each liner with 1 tablespoon of lemon cake batter.
• Spread to the edges and level.
• Mix orange cake mix as the package directs.
• To intensify the orange color add orange gel food color.
• Add 1 tablespoon of orange cake batter on top of the lemon.
• Gently spread to the edges and level.
• Bake 20 minutes or until toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.
• Cool in muffin tins 10 minutes.
• Take cupcakes out of tins and cool completely on wire racks before frosting.
• Cream together the cream cheese, butter and vanilla.
• Add sugar 1 cup at a time.
• If the frosting is too thick add milk 1 tablespoon at a time until the frosting reaches piping consistency.
• Separate frosting equally into two bowls.
• Add yellow gel food coloring to one and orange to the other.
• Mix each color until there is no more white.
• Follow piping directions above.