Watermelon Cupcakes Recipes

Steps:

• 1. Cut watermelon into cubes and run it through a food processor or blender. Separate pulp and juice with a fine sieve.
• 2. Cream softened butter and sugar. Then add egg and sour cream; mix.
• 3. Add dry ingredients.
• 4. Add juice and mix.
• 5. Gently stir in pulp with a spoon (can add more if you want more texture).
• 6. Pour into lined cupcake pan. Place in 350 degree pre-heated oven for about 18-22 minutes. Cool on a wire rack.
• 7. For the icing, cream butter and cream cheese. Add confectioners' sugar and blend well.
• 8. Add pulp (add more or less as per personal preference). Make sure your pulp is squeezed out well or your icing consistency may be runny. (I put the pulp in a strainer and smashed it down with the back of a spoon.)
• 9. Blend well and adjust consistency to your liking with watermelon pulp or juice.
• 10. Put the icing into a piping bag with number 1 tip or however you want to ice them.

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350°F.
• Reserve 1 Tbsp. dry gelatin mix. Prepare cake batter and bake as directed on package for 24 cupcakes, blending remaining gelatin mix into batter before spooning into prepared muffin cups.
• Spoon frosting into medium bowl. Add reserved gelatin mix and food coloring to frosting; mix well. Add COOL WHIP; whisk until blended. Spread onto cupcakes.
• Decorate with chocolate morsels to resemble watermelons as shown in photo.

Steps:

• Reserve about 3/4 cup white buttercream in a pastry bag fitted with a large plain round tip. Color about 1 1/2 cups buttercream deep green. Color about 3 cups buttercream deep pink, with a few drops of red added to make the color of ripe watermelon.
• Arrange 19 cupcakes in a triangle shape, starting with 1 at the top and ending with 6 at the bottom, sloping the bottom sides up to resemble the curved rind of a watermelon wedge.
• Use an ice cream scoop or large spoon to dollop about 1/4 cup green buttercream on each of the 6 cupcakes in the bottom row. Smooth with a small offset spatula, covering the tops and sides (but not the paper liners), to make a solid line of green for the rind.
• Wash and dry the ice cream scoop and offset spatula. Dollop about 1/4 cup pink buttercream on each of the remaining cupcakes and smooth the tops and sides with the offset spatula. Shape the frosting on the top cupcake into a point to resemble the tip of a watermelon wedge.
• Wash the offset spatula again. Pipe a curved line of white buttercream along where the pink and green buttercream meet. Smooth with the tip of the offset spatula to make the inner white part of the watermelon rind.
• Press jelly beans in a random pattern to make watermelon seeds.