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Our Pink Ombre Princess Cupcakes will wow your Little Princess at her birthday party! These super yummy, easy-to-make, and Perfectly Pink Cupcakes are just what the royal party planner ordered.

Closeup on five Pink Ombre Princess Cupcakes sitting on a white table in front of a pink table linen and a pink princess tiara.

Do you have a Little Princess in your family that is begging to be adorned with lace, tulle, and tiaras for her birthday? Have we got the Princess Cupcake recipe for you! Swirls of the most delicious Pink Ombre Buttercream Frosting you’ve ever tasted take these Princess Party treats from plain to spectacular. You’ll have plenty to do on party day so these super yummy, easy-to-make, and Perfectly Pink Cupcakes are just what the royal party planner ordered.

Ingredients You Will Need

All the ingredients you will need to make Princess Cupcakes including cupcakes, pink buttercream frosting, food coloring and cupcake liners.

How to Make the Cupcakes

Closeup of a dozen vanilla cupcakes sitting on a white table surrounded by a cupcake tin and a black and white kitchen towel.

Step 1: Make a batch of cupcakes.  You can use a cake box mix, we have all the instructions you’ll need to make them taste just like homemade right here. Or you can make them from scratch with our yummy Homemade Vanilla Cupcakes recipe.  We used vanilla cupcakes but Chocolate Cupcakes would taste great too.

How to Make the Buttercream Frosting

Clear bowl filled with homemade buttercream frosting sitting next to two sticks of butter and a decorating bag filled with icing.

Step 2: The key to these delicious cupcakes is our Best Buttercream Frosting recipe.   It is light and creamy and buttery and super delicious! You will find the recipe and directions here.  One batch of frosting will be enough to frost 12 cupcakes.  If you used a boxed cake mix, you should have about 18 cupcakes and will need to double the frosting recipe.  Once you have the frosting made, split it into thirds.  Because the three layers of the frosting swirl are not all the same size we portioned our single batch of frosting as follows:

Dark Pink:  1 cup
Light Pink: 3/4 cups
White: 1/2 cup

How to Color the Frosting

Collage image showing how to tint the buttercream frosting two different shades of pink.

Now it is time to tint the frosting. We like the Wilton Color Right Food Coloring.  It is concentrated and you can get a bright color without having to use too much food coloring.  Here are the formulas we used for our Princess frosting colors:

Dark Pink: 4 drops of Pink Food Coloring
Light Pink: 2 drops of Pink Food Coloring
White: No food coloring.

Putting It All Together

Closeup on a vanilla cupcake with a pink cupcake liner sitting on a white table next to more cupcakes and pink frosting in decorating bags.

Step 4: Load the three colors of frosting into separate decorating bags with a Wilton 1M Open Star Decorating Tip and gather up your cupcakes!

Collage image showing how to frost the Princess Cupcakes with Pink Ombre frosting.

Step 5:  For each Princess Cupcake, you will make three swirls of the frosting.  Dark Pink on the bottom, then light pink, and finally white.
Step 6:  With the decorating bag and the 1M tip, make one and a half circles of dark pink frosting around the edge of the cupcake.
Step 7:  Next apply another 1 1/2 circles of light pink frosting but this circle should be a little smaller than the pink frosting layer as shown in the picture above.
Step 8: Finally, with the white frosting, add a third circle but this time finishing with an upward flourish so that the swirl ends in a peak at the top.

You can watch a video of how to make a frosting swirl like this in our How to Frost Cupcakes post.

Close of three Princess Cupcakes sitting on a white table in front of a pink towel and a pink princess tiara.

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Princess Cupcakes

Yield 18 cupcakes
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 18 minutes
Additional Time 10 minutes
Total Time 38 minutes

Our Pink Ombre Princess Cupcakes will wow your Little Princess at her birthday party! These super yummy, easy-to-make, and Perfectly Pink Cupcakes are just what the royal party planner ordered.

Ingredients

Instructions

  1. Make a batch of vanilla cupcakes.
  2. Make 1-2 batches of our Best Buttercream Frosting recipe (depending on how many cupcakes you are frosting.)
  3. Once you have the frosting made, split it into thirds.  Because the three layers of the frosting swirl are not all the same size we portioned our single batch of frosting as follows: Dark Pink:  1 cup Light Pink: 3/4 cups White: 1/2 cup
  4. For each Princess Cupcake, you will make three swirls of the frosting.  Dark Pink on the bottom, then light pink, and finally white. With the decorating bag and the 1M tip, make one and a half circles of dark pink frosting around the edge of the cupcake.
  5. Next, apply another 1 1/2 circles of light pink frosting but this circle should be a little smaller than the white frosting layer as shown in the picture above.
  6. Finally, with the white frosting, add a third circle but this time finishing with an upward flourish so that the swirl ends in a peak at the top.

Notes

Food Coloring Formulas
Dark Pink: 4 drops of Pink Food Coloring
Light Pink: 2 drops of Pink Food Coloring
White: no food coloring

Did you Make this Recipe? Leave a review below, then snap a picture and tag @twosisterscrafting on Instagram so we can see it!

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Cuisine: American / Category: Cupcakes