These colorful grill cupcakes are the absolute perfect dessert to make for your next summer barbecue or backyard party!

Summer Grill Cupcakes

Feel free to use a box mix for your cupcakes, or our from-scratch chocolate cupcakes recipe as the base for the Grill Cupcakes.

Ingredients

• 12 chocolate cupcakes, prepared unfrosted
• 1 can red Frosting
• 1 can orange Frosting
• Wilton black candy melts
• Assorted gummy candy

Kitchen supplies:

• Frosting decorating kit/piping bag with 2-color coupler
• Toothpicks

Directions

Heat about ½ cup of black chocolate melting discs in the microwave, stirring every 30 seconds until melted. (Be sure to use a microwave-safe bowl for melting the chocolate and handle carefully).

Scoop the melted chocolate into a small plastic bag and cut a tiny hole in the corner. You can also use a plastic piping bag for this step.

Using the melted black chocolate, pipe twelve circles onto a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Your circles should be about the same width as the cupcakes. Next, pipe chocolate lines across each circle to resemble a grill grate.

Allow the chocolate grill grates to set completely.

Fill one piping bag with red frosting and one piping bag with orange frosting and secure the two-color swirl coupler.

Pipe frosting in a swirl pattern on top the cupcakes to resemble fire.

Trim gummy candy (if needed, depending on the shape) and put onto the toothpicks to resemble skewers/kabobs.

Once grill grates are hard, gently press onto the frosted cupcakes. Top each cupcake with a gummy candy skewer.

Grab a free printable copy of our Grill Cupcakes here:

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