Kid-Made Beach Cupcakes are Perfect for a Summer Day

If summer is your thing, you’re going to need these beach cupcakes in your life. They’re an easy to make cupcake idea and one of our favorite fun party cupcakes. Let’s do this.

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Jazz up any summer party with these fun beach cupcakes the kids can help make! It’s easy cupcake decorating idea that will bring the smiles.

Beach Cupcakes

Here at Ruffles and Rain Boots, we have a confession to make: I’m in love with cupcakes. It’s so true, which is apparent to everyone who know me – I make and bring cupcakes for all occasions. I’ve even pulled together the ultimate list of easy to make cupcake ideas from our own house, and it’s big.

But, I’v got a special place in my heart for these easy beach cupcakes. They’re just everything that summer should be – light, airy, fun, and silly. Let’s get started.

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Tips to Make these Fun Party Cupcakes

  • Take your time frosting these and be detailed and neat – just kidding, the messier you (or the kids) are, the more waves there are in the ocean!
  • Let these beach cupcakes cool completely before frosting.
  • If you need a vanilla cupcake recipe, I recommend making our Lazy Girl’s Easy Vanilla Cupcakes. They take less than 30-minutes and use ingredients you likely have on hand – and people on Pinterest really love them.
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How Do I Make Beach Cupcakes?

I’m so glad you asked. Below is our written tutorial. If you’re making a fun party cupcakes playlist on YouTube, here is our beach cupcakes video tutorial.

Yield: 12-24 cupcakes

Beach Cupcakes - Perfect for Summer

blue frosted cupcakes with green cupcake papers with tiny umbrellas and red candy fish sticking out of blue frosting on a light beige background with scattered red candy fish

These beach cupcakes are an easy summer party cupcake decorating idea the kids can help make.

Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 20 minutes
Additional Time 10 minutes
Total Time 40 minutes

Ingredients

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven and follow the recipe to make the vanilla cupcake batter .
  2. Place 1 cup of cake batter in a separate bowl.
  3. Mix blue gelatin into this separated batter. Stir to combine completely.
  4. Place 2/3 of the normal amount of batter (the white batter) into cupcake liners. Spoon several drops of the blue cake mix into each cupcake, then swirl the blue and white cake mix together with a toothpick. But be very careful not to actually mix the two colors together--just swirl. photo tutorial of how to make beach cupcakes by adding blue mix to easy vanilla cupcake recipe
  5. Complete the baking of the cupcakes according to the recipe. Cool cupcakes completely.
  6. Combine the white icing and blue food coloring together until you reach the desired color of consistent blue.
  7. With a butter knife, spread blue icing on top of each cupcake.
  8. Place graham cracker crumbs in a bowl. Dip half of each cupcake into the graham cracker crumbs to create a "beach" on one side.
  9. Cut tail portions of gummy fish candies off.
  10. Place one of the head portions of gummy fish candies into the blue ocean area of each cupcake.
  11. Decorate with cocktail umbrellas (optional). photo tutorial of how to make beach cupcakes by adding blue frosting and graham crackers to beach cupcakes

Notes

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Nutrition Information:

Yield:

20

Serving Size:

1

Amount Per Serving: Calories: 365Total Fat: 15gSaturated Fat: 3gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 12gCholesterol: 65mgSodium: 242mgCarbohydrates: 53gFiber: 0gSugar: 38gProtein: 5g

All nutrition information is estimated. For accuracy, please calculate your exact brands and ingredients if accuracy is desired.

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