Flashback to July 4th 2010

It's Flashback Friday!
This is a "now just occasional" segment that I post to show you some of my past adventures...

For this cupcake, I painted the inside of the piping bag, prepared with a 1M tip, with red up one side and blue up the other side and filled with Vanilla Buttercream frosting.

I experimented with a couple different star tips too 

My daughter is the cookie maker in the family and made these stained glass 4th of July cookies!

She started out with our favorite sugar cookie recipe: Martha Stewart Essential Recipe No. 2: Sugar Cookies. She rolled out the dough and cut out with a large star cookie cutter and then cut out the center with a small cookie cutter. She put Jolly Rancher candies in a zipper bag covered with a towel and used a hammer to break it up. Once the cookies were placed on the cookie sheet, she filled the center with the crushed candies. After the cookies baked, she iced them with Vanilla Buttercream icing and this is what they looked like! This was her first cookie project using this technique and I think she did a fabulous job!

Here are all of the different cupcakes and cookies that we made for July 4th, 2010!

Even the inside of the cupcake was Patriotic with Pillsbury Stars & Stripes Funfetti cake mix!

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These cupcakes are linked up to:

Cupcake Tuesday