I’ve been on a bit of a mermaid kick lately. They are so trendy right now and I’ve really been inspired to make some mermaid drinks and desserts. I recently got this Mermaid Sparkle Sprinkle Blend from Fresh April Sprinkles and I knew I had to make cupcakes. If you want to try these sprinkles yourself (or any other blend!) simply enter the code HEZZID15 at the check out and you will get 15% off your order!
Since I was making mermaid cupcakes I was feeling like they should be blue. I didn’t really think they needed a blue flavor but I thought the cupcakes themselves should be blue. A few months ago I bought butterfly pea flower extract and have been waiting for an occasion to use it. The Butterfly pea is a legume and it’s flowers can be used to make an edible dye. While the color works out better in drinks, it did work in this recipe.
The cool thing about this extract is that it starts out as blue but at different pH levels it changes to pink or purple. In these cupcakes it ended up making them a light blue color which was really pretty. I wanted to use it in the frosting too but it wasn’t working for that. I didn’t want to make plain old vanilla cupcakes so I made these lemon flavored.
These Lemon Mermaid Cupcakes are fun, taste amazing, and look awesome. The cupcake is lemon flavored and light blue in color, I used just a basic vanilla buttercream on top, then rolled the tops in the Mermaid Sparkle Sprinkle Blend. Sticking out the top of the cupcakes were candy melt mermaid tails! I don’t know a little girl out there who could resist these cupcakes.
Lemon cupcakes topped with buttercream frosting, sparkling mermaid sprinkles, and candy melt mermaid tails. A Hezzi-D Original recipeLemon Mermaid Cupcakes
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Heidi Slowinski
These are so cute!