Mardi Gras Cupcake Recipe By: Akyla Aiken Kadedjatu Barry

1 cup unsalted butter, room temperature 2 cups sugar 4 eggs, room temperature the seeds of 2 Madagascar vanilla beans 1 tsp vanilla extract 1 ¼ cups Buttermilk ¼ cup sour cream 3 cups cake flour 3 ½ tsp baking powder ½ tsp salt Green, Purple and Yellow food coloring gel Cinnamon Cream Cheese Frosting 1 cup unsalted butter, room temperature 4 oz cream cheese, room temperature 2 lbs powdered sugar 1 tsp vanilla extract 1/4 tsp cinnamon 1/4-1/2 cup heavy whipping cream pinch of salt green, purple and yellow sprinkles Rolo candies Mini Reese’s peanut butter cups purple gel food coloring

Chef: Betsy Yield: 2 dozen cupcakes

Doubled Recipe ( DOUBLED SERVEING:24 ) 2 cup unsalted butter, room temperature 4 cups sugar 8 eggs, room temperature the seeds of 4 Madagascar vanilla beans 2 tsp vanilla extract 2 ½ cups Buttermilk ½ cup sour cream 6 cups cake flour 7 tsp baking powder 1 tsp salt Green, Purple and Yellow food coloring gel Cinnamon Cream Cheese Frosting 2 cup unsalted butter, room temperature 8 oz cream cheese, room temperature 4 lbs powdered sugar 3 tsp vanilla extract ½ tsp cinnamon `1/2-1 cup heavy whipping cream pinch of salt green, purple and yellow sprinkles Rolo candies Mini Reese’s peanut butter cups purple gel food coloring

½ OF RECPIE ½ cup unsalted butter, room temperature 1 cups sugar 2 eggs, room temperature the seeds of 1 Madagascar vanilla beans ½ tsp vanilla extract 5/8 cups Buttermilk 1/8 cup sour cream 1 ½ cups cake flour 1 ¾ tsp baking powder ¼ tsp salt Green, Purple and Yellow food coloring gel Cinnamon Cream Cheese Frosting ½ cup unsalted butter, room temperature 2 oz cream cheese, room temperature 1 lbs powdered sugar ½ tsp vanilla extract 1/8 tsp cinnamon 1/8 -1/4 cup heavy whipping cream pinch of salt green, purple and yellow sprinkles Rolo candies Mini Reese’s peanut butter cups purple gel food coloring

4 cup unsalted butter, room temperature 8 cups sugar 16 eggs, room temperature the seeds of 8 Madagascar vanilla beans 4 tsp vanilla extract 5 cups Buttermilk 1 cup sour cream 12 cups cake flour 14 tsp baking powder 2 tsp salt Green, Purple and Yellow food coloring gel (I used Wilton brand) Cinnamon Cream Cheese Frosting 4 cup unsalted butter, room temperature 16 oz cream cheese, room temperature 8 lbs powdered sugar 4 tsp vanilla extract 1 tsp cinnamon 1-2 cup heavy whipping cream pinch of salt green, purple and yellow sprinkles Rolo candies Mini Reese’s peanut butter cups purple gel food coloring QUADRUPLE RECPIE

Regular recipeDoubled recipe½ recipeQuadruple recipe 1 cup unsalted butter2 cup unsalted butter ½ cup unsalted butter 4 cup unsalted butter 2 cups sugar4 cups sugar1 cups sugar8 cups sugar 4 eggs8 eggs2 eggs16 eggs the seeds of 2 Madagascar vanilla beans the seeds of 4 Madagascar vanilla beans the seeds of 1 Madagascar vanilla beans the seeds of 8 Madagascar vanilla beans 1 tsp vanilla extract2 tsp vanilla extract½ tsp vanilla extract4 tsp vanilla extract 1 ¼ cups Buttermilk2 ½ cups Buttermilk5/8 cups Buttermilk5 cups Buttermilk ¼ cup sour cream ½ cup sour cream 1/8 cup sour cream1 cup sour cream 3 cups cake flour6 cups cake flour1 ½ cups cake flour12 cups cake flour 3 ½ tsp baking powder7 tsp baking powder1 ¾ tsp baking powder14 tsp baking powder ½ tsp salt1 tsp salt¼ tsp salt2 tsp salt 1 cup unsalted butter2 cup unsalted butter½ cup unsalted butter4 cup unsalted butter 4 oz cream cheese8 oz cream cheese2 oz cream cheese16 oz cream cheese 2 lbs powdered sugar4 lbs powdered sugar1 lbs powdered sugar8 lbs powdered sugar 1 tsp vanilla extract3 tsp vanilla extract½ tsp vanilla extract4 tsp vanilla extract 1/4 tsp cinnamon½ tsp cinnamon1/8 tsp cinnamon1 tsp cinnamon green, purple and yellow sprinkles 1/2-1 cup heavy whipping cream 1/8 -1/4 cup heavy whipping cream 1-2 cup heavy whipping cream

Explain how you would adjust your recipe to feed everyone in your class and don’t forget your teacher! Since you 24 kids in our class and my cupcakes serve 12 servings so I would multiply 2 x 12 to serve everybody in my class.