Easy American Flag Cupcakes with Licorice and Candy

These American Flag Cupcakes are such a fun and festive dessert for summer parties, Memorial Day, the 4th of July, or any patriotic celebration! 

With bright red licorice stripes, fluffy white frosting, and blue candies on top, they’re eye-catching, playful, and surprisingly easy to make.

Whether you’re hosting a backyard BBQ, heading to a potluck, or just want a sweet treat everyone will talk about, these cupcakes are guaranteed to bring smiles to the dessert table!

Grab some ingredients and let’s get to the making…

Items need to make Flag Cupcakes:
baked cupcakes

• White Frosting
• pull-apart licorice (Cherry Twizzlers)
• Blue (candy pieces, blueberries, or blue M&M, or jelly bellies, or star sprinkles these would be cute too)

scissors to cup the licorice.

 

Spread your cupcakes (these are red velvet) with an even layer of white icing.

Then begin by cutting a piece of licorice about 3 inches so it will fit across cupcake.

After you lay the licorice down into the icing you can trim it so there is no licorice hanging over the edge.

 

Continue adding 4 more pieces of licorice evenly spaced below the first piece of licorice. (there will be one more added to the bottom of this one in….check photo below)

Then cut the next 4 pieces a bit smaller leaving room for the blue candy.

Trimming the edges of the licorice on the cupcakes with scissors allows them to fit well. If you pre cut the licorice, chances are the top mound of the cupcakes will vary along with the icing and they wouldn’t look as even.

The angle of the round cupcakes will be off a bit too, so I’ll save you some time here, trim the edges after you place them into the icing.

Now for some cookies…

Some really great COOKIERS’ discussed doing cookies from our favorite summer vacation. This is the cookie I shared. It represents our vacation last summer, traveling around the US for three weeks. It was so wonderful. My family and I all enjoyed the trip and would do it again, even with all the hours spent in the car.  The hearts are placed where we visited people we love and it sure made for an unforgettable trip! Guess who we spent a week with…..you may have guessed, my brother and his family. Yea that was a favorite week for all of us! We hope we have a chance to do it again and go a different route so we can all enjoy more of this country.

More Patriotic Recipes:

• Red White and Blue Patriotic Cake – vanilla cake colored buttercream
• 8” round American Flag Cake a simple cake you’ll make again and again
• Patriotic tye dye cake fun and easy to make white cake with colored frosting

• Red White and Blue Patriotic Cake – vanilla cake-colored buttercream
• Cherry Pie Cookies – deep dish vanilla cookies with cherry filling
• Red White and Blue Tart Fruit tart
• Vanilla Layer Cake 2 layer sheet cake with pastry cream, topped with berries

• Patriotic Spritz Cookies butter cookies perfect for celebrating the USA
• American Flag Cupcakes so cute, and easy to decorate
• Frosted Sugar Cookies to look like the US Flag
• Red White and Blue Colored Cake Batter- cupcakes

• Star Cookies with sprinkles in red white and blue and a template for giant cookies
• Red Velvet Pancakes with Cream Cheese Glaze perfect to start a patriotic day
• Fruit Squares Cake– apple, blueberry, cherry looks like a flag

• Red White and Blue Spaghetti a fun meal everyone will rave over
• Red White and Blue deviled eggs so fun every celebration needs these
• Red Velvet No Bake Cheesecake pretty, delicious and no oven needed
• Red White and Blue Tie Dye Cookies fun cut out cookies in patriotic colors
• Chocolate Ice Cream Shaped Cookies in cones with patriotic sprinkles