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Prep Time 10 min
Total Time 30 min
Servings 18

Ingredients

1: box Betty Crocker® SuperMoist® white cake mix

1 1/4: cups water

1/3: cup vegetable oil

3: egg whites

: Red food color

: Blue food color

36: plastic push-up pop containers

2: cans Betty Crocker® Rich & Creamy white frosting

2: envelopes popping rock candy

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Directions

1 Heat oven to 350°F. Spray 36 mini muffin cups with cooking spray.
2 In medium bowl, beat cake mix, water, oil and egg whites with electric mixer on low speed until moistened; beat 2 minutes on high speed until well blended. Divide batter into 2 bowls. Tint 1 bowl of batter with a few drops red food color; tint other bowl with blue food color.
3 Fill 18 muffin cups 2/3 full with red batter. Bake about 15 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Remove from oven. Repeat with blue batter to make an additional 18 mini cupcakes. Cool completely.
4 To assemble push-up cakes, drop 1 mini cupcake into each push-up pop container. Add generous teaspoon frosting to top of each cupcake. Top each with second mini cupcake; add dollops of frosting to tops of each. Sprinkle each of popping rock candy. Serve.

EXPERT TIPS

Expert Tips

If popping rock candy isn’t your thing, go with festive sprinkles in red, white, and blue.

If you have a hard time finding the containers, do an Internet search for “plastic push pop containers”—there are several restaurant supply companies that sell them.

Got questions? Our experts have the answers. Ask Betty now.

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Posted 7/4/2012 1:12:44 PM REPORT ABUSE iheartbaking12 said:

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Make sure to use gel food coloring to get the vivid coloring. Regular drops will yield pink and light blue, if you use too many drops to deepen color, the batter will taste bitter. This recipe makes 36 of each color if you are making mini-cupcakes and fill 2/3 full, thus you will have 36 containers with two cupcakes each. Don't overfill mini-cupcake pan or the cupcakes will be too big to fit in container. You can also make these in the plastic containers like petit-fours. Divide cake batter into two round cake pan (one for red and one for blue). After cooling, slice each round in half. Stack alternating layers with white frosting in between and then press the push-ups down onto the layered cake, making your way around. Finish push-up with swirl of white frosting on top. Still has look of fire craccker with less frosting, faster time.

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Posted 8/10/2011 10:47:15 PM REPORT ABUSE madamedesserts said:

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I found them here http://www.lagunawholesale.com/category.jhtm?cid=26 they have different packages and their price are very good.And if you choose to make cupcakes with a clear cups as Orphannannie said go here http://www.lagunawholesale.com/category.jhtm?cid=34 also they have it with different shapes and sizes

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Posted 7/22/2011 11:25:46 AM REPORT ABUSE SetterMom23 said:

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Doesn't anyone else see something WRONG with this recipe? It says it makes 36, calls for 36 push-pop containers, but says it makes 18 blue and 18 red cupcakes. If each pop takes two cakes, then it only makes 18, right? So what about the rest of the numbers? How do we know they're right? Does the recipe call for too much or too little frosting? I would have thought this kind of thing would be worked out before publishing.

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