Red White And Blue Muffins Recipes

RED, WHITE AND BLUEBERRY MUFFINS

Steps:

• Heat oven to 425°F. Place paper baking cup in each of 12 regular-size muffin cups, or grease bottoms only of muffin cups.
• Drain Blueberries (from muffin mix); rinse and set aside. In medium bowl, stir Muffin Mix, milk, oil, eggs and cranberries just until blended. Gently stir in blueberries. Divide batter among muffin cups (each about three-fourths full).
• Bake 17 to 22 minutes or until golden brown and tops spring back when lightly touched. Cool 3 to 4 minutes; remove from pan. Stir together powdered sugar, milk and orange extract until thin enough to drizzle. Drizzle glaze over muffins.

RED, WHITE AND BLUE CHEESECAKE

Steps:

• Position a rack in the middle of the oven and preheat to 325 degrees F.
• For the crust: Toss together the graham cracker crumbs, butter, sugar and salt in a medium bowl. Press into the bottom of a 10-inch springform pan. Bake until golden brown, 15 to 18 minutes. Cool completely. Wrap the bottom and sides of pan up with a large piece of foil and put in a large roasting pan.
• For the filling: Beat together the cream cheese and sugar, in a large bowl, with an electric mixer on medium speed for 1 minute. Add the sour cream, and beat until just combined. Add the heavy cream and beat until just combined. Mix in the eggs, by hand, 1 at time. Mix in the vanilla and lemon juice, by hand, until just combined. (Take care not to overmix, or the cheesecake will turn into a soufflé!).
• Ladle out 2 cups of cheesecake batter and divide between 2 bowls. Color 1 bowl with red food coloring and 1 with blue food coloring. Leave the remaining batter white.
• Use an ice cream scoop or large spoon, and drop scoopfuls of the batter onto the crust, alternating between the different colors until all the batter is gone. Use a long wooden skewer and drag it through the batter, making sure the skewer reaches down to the bottom of the pan, in 4 swipes, to marble the colors for a tie dye effect. Transfer the springform pan to the roasting pan. Add enough hot water to come about halfway up the side of the springform pan.
• Bake until the outside of the cake is set, but the center is still slightly loose, about 1 hour 20 minutes. Turn the oven off and leave the cheesecake in the oven for another hour. Remove the cheesecake from the roasting pan to a cooling rack. Run a knife around the edge and cool to room temperature. Cover and refrigerate at least 8 hours.
• Unmold the cheesecake and transfer to a serving plate or cake stand.

RED, WHITE AND BLUEBERRY MUFFINS

Steps:

• For streusel topping:.
• Cut margarine into flour, brown sugar, cinnamon and about 4 drops of food coloring (number of drops depends on how dark you want the red), in a medium bowl, using a pastry blender or crisscrossing 2 knives, until crumbly.
• Muffins:.
• Heat oven to 400. Grease bottoms of 12 medium muffin cups or line with paper baking cups.
• Prepare streusel topping; set aside.
• Beat milk, oil, vanilla and egg in a large bowl. Stir in flour, sugar, baking powder and salt all at once, just until the flour is moistened (batter will be lumpy). Fold in blueberies. Divide batter among the muffin cups and top with 2 teaspoons of the streusel topping.
• Bake 20-25 minutes or until golden brown. Remove from pan. These muffins are good warm or cool!

PATRIOTIC CUPCAKES

Steps:

• Prepare cake mix batter according to package directions for cupcakes., In a small bowl, combine 1-1/3 cups batter and blue food coloring. In another bowl, combine 1-1/3 cups batter and red food coloring. Leave remaining batter plain., Fill paper-lined muffin cups with 2 tablespoons red batter, 2 tablespoons plain batter and 2 tablespoons blue batter. Bake at 350° for 20-24 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks to cool completely. Frost with vanilla frosting; decorate with sprinkles.