

Hello!
My dad asked me to bake something for his poker night, all I have for ingredients is leftover buttercream from the cupcakes in the photo! I can't make cute rainbow cupcakes for a bunch of big men on poker night, how do I recycle the buttercream?! Do I dye it until it's brown? Hide it somewhere? Any suggestions would be appreciated!!
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Thank you in advance!!
by asadcrayon

36 Comments
Most guys don’t pay attention to the colour of treats. They just consume and enjoy!
If it tastes good, they won’t care. I’d go for it
I agree, a treat is a treat regardless!
I’m not sure of your rools/comfort but my first thought (besides fondant toppers) is to flattop ice them and transfer poker chip markings.
Draw with edible marker on parchment a reverse image of poker chip marks/amounts and then flattop ice the cupcakes (placing them upside down on the drawing
Apologies if this was over explained.
Another way could be to do a similar thing with royal icing transfers 🤷🏻♀️
If you keep mixing the rainbow colors all together won’t it just turn into a kind of flat ‘manly’ grey-brown color? 😁 then you can stick fondant poker chips on top.
Usually if I want to reuse random mixed colors of frosting, or if I accidentally screw up when coloring frosting and can no longer get the color I want out of it, I like to beat in some cocoa. Stealth chocolate frosting hiding a rainbow of sins 😁
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Just watch how many are left! ☺️
If you mix it they’ll turn to a not so pretty brown. I usually mix them and make it black but that requires a lot of food dye and changes the butter cream flavour. Stick to rainbow, looks amazing!
If you don’t get your butt in the kitchen and make those big macho men some fruity pebbles cupcakes!!! 😤😤 they are gonna tear them upppp
I can help dispose of the leftover buttercream if needed.
They will love them as is! Great job
It’s giving Lover by Taylor Swift.
As a man who eats baked goods, don’t change them. They look amazing.
If you have cocoa powder, add that and turn it into chocolate buttercream
if a man won’t eat a rainbow cupcake because its rainbow, then he doesn’t deserve any cupcake!
Can you just blend it until it becomes one color?
Every candy on the market is rainbow! I say go for it
Throw it all in a mixer with some cocoa powder and make a chocolate buttercream!
Great!!!
It would make me smile to think of a bunch of old guys eating pastel rainbow cupcakes.
I’m a 40 year old dad, and I’d have no issue eating those cupcakes.
How old are these guys? Tell them it’s retro 1970s hippy, psychedelic cup cakes. Peace, love
Oh hell I say use the rainbow frosting and make weiner shaped cookies and they’ll love it.
Every man I know would shove those in their mouths and not think twice about it. 🤣🤣
If a person won’t eat it because “it’s girrly/that’s for a little kid/its LGBTQ+ flag color” they got bigger issues then just a single cupcake
They are very beautiful and flavor is more important then the outside
When I was doing macarons I had a captain crunch “crunch berry” flavor, and I would swirl the color on the shells to match the crunch berries. Almost 100% of my orders for that specific flavor were the middle aged dudes lol. It started as a 4/20 special and I ended up having to make them a permanent fixture on the menu thanks to my friends’ dads 😅
If their machoness can’t survive a few rainbow cupcakes, that’s their problem, not yours. My mom made moon cakes once and I turned half into disney characters with sesame seeds. Everyone, grown men included, went for the decorated ones first lol
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As a grumpy old man- I would eat each one of those!! Good luck!!
I think these are amazing and you should serve these, but if you’re super worried, add cocoa and turn them chocolate
These look amazing!!
You need advice on eating them? cuz speaking for all men, we want those
I made cupcakes for a diaper keg a few weeks ago and they were elegant and beautiful. The men appreciated them. Guys can have pretty cupcakes, too! Just go for the Fruity Pebbles ones!
Side note, when I have lots of colors of buttercream leftover, I mix all the colors together and make chocolate buttercream. The cocoa powder and melted chocolate I add are sufficient to cover the colors.
As a big (228 lb/50 years old) man…I’d love it if someone made me rainbow cupcakes.
These will be perfect for them as they hope to find the “pot of winnings!” My husband and sons all say, “They could be pink, purple, or traffic cone orange, if they’re good – they’ll eat it!”
Mix all the colors, then yes it’s brown, but add a bunch of cocoa and voila it’s chocolate