How to Make Camo Cupcakes

Luke and Lila’s big boot camp birthday party is set to go this weekend despite the fact that the weather is throwing a serious wrench in my plans.  My awesome outdoor location will likely get rained out and I’ll be doing a little boot camp overhaul in my gameroom.  I’m trying to just go with it.  In the meantime, I made the cupcakes and I thought I’d do a little pre-party sharing and show you how to make camo cupcakes.  They were so easy to make and they turned out really great, if I do say so myself {wink}!

I lined muffin pans with cupcake liners in the pink and green party colors for our co-ed army party.  Camo cupcake liners {affiliate link} would also be really cute.

To make the camo cupcakes, I mixed up two cake mixes.  One chocolate …

… and one white.  {You can obviously make the cake mix from scratch but I’m all about easy.}

I divided the white batter into three separate bowls and colored some of it pink and some of it green.  {I later added another shade of green that isn’t pictured by mixing the green you see below with a little bit of brown paste food coloring.}

I put a scoop of chocolate cake mix into each cupcake liner and then randomly {and gently, so as not to mix colors} added spoonfuls of other colors until I got the look I wanted.

I used the same technique to make the pink camo cupcakes.

I baked them according to the package instructions and they turned out exactly as I hoped.  

The colors stayed intact without mixing and blending and the camo cupcakes look perfect!

I’ll frost them before I serve them at the party and the kiddos will have a fun surprise when they bite into them.  The twins both thought they were “awesome” and are getting pretty excited about their boot camp party.

For another fun cupcake idea for kids, be sure to check out these video game cupcakes!