Fall is one of my favorite seasons. Here in Texas, we plan all of our camping trips in the fall since the summer is so hot. What better treat to serve during your weekend camping trip than these campfire cupcakes! We also host a lot of outdoor movie nights, using our backyard projection screen, with a small campfire to make s’mores. These campfire cupcakes are a hit during our outdoor movie parties. They are great to serve at a camping themed party.

How to Decorate Campfire Cupcakes

You can use a homemade cupcake recipe or prepare a packaged cake mix. To decorate campfire cupcakes you will need two different food coloring for the fire, pretzels sticks, and mini marshmallows. I recommend making chocolate cupcakes so it looks like dirt.

The trick to making your cupcake frosting look like real fire, is by adding two different piping bags, one with yellow frosting and one with orange frosting, together into a third piping bag to frost your cupcake at the same time. This will layer the orange and yellow frosting without blending together.

Add pretzel sticks as logs to your fire frosting.

Before displaying or serving, add mini marshmallows to toothpicks as roasted marshmallow skewers. 

Print the full tutorial recipe below.

Campfire Cupcakes

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Ingredients

• 24 baked chocolate cupcakes
• 2 containers vanilla frosting
• pretzel sticks
• mini marshmallows
• orange gel food color
• yellow gel food color
• Wilton 1M piping tip
• 3 disposable piping bags
• toothpicks

Instructions

1. Mix and bake cupcakes according to package instructions and allow to cool completely.
2. While cupcakes are cooling color one container of frosting orange and one container yellow. 
3. Add each color to a disposable piping bag and then add both bags to a third piping bag fitted with a Wilton 1M piping tip. (you might have to do this in 2 batches depending on how big your bags are)
4. Frost your cooled cupcakes and then place pretzel sticks around the frosting to look like logs, breaking the pretzels as needed to create varying heights.
5. Take two marshmallows and slide them onto the toothpicks. Decorate cupcakes with marshmallow skewers just before serving.

Nutrition Information:

Serving Size:

1 grams
Amount Per Serving: Unsaturated Fat: 0g

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