How to Make Camouflage Cupcakes

Updated on June 19, 2024

Camouflage Cupcakes. Learn how to easily make camo cupcakes for your next hunting or outdoor-themed party. 

For my husband’s 40th birthday, I threw him a big party at the house with our friends. My husband is a hunter and loves the outdoors, so I thought doing a camouflage birthday party would be fun.

The real star of the party was the camouflage cupcakes. Today, I am going to share with you how to make them. 

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I didn’t plan an elaborate party like I usually do for the kids, but I did decorate it, and we had a lot of delicious food.

We ended up playing Just Dance, which was hilarious! I purchased some decorations at Walmart – camouflage plates, napkins, balloons, and a tablecloth. 

I also made a utensil holder using a cardboard beverage carrier and covered it in camouflage Duck tape.

How to Make Camo Cupcakes

To make the camouflage cupcakes, you will need three kinds of box cake mix: chocolate, yellow, and white.

You will also need two colors of food coloring. I prefer to use the Wilton colors when baking cakes or making icing. For this project, I used Brown and Juniper Green.

Prepare 5 Colors of Cake Mix

Prepare each cake mix according to package instructions. I wanted five different colors of cake batter – dark brown, light brown, yellow, dark green, and light green.

Dark Brown and Light Brown

The dark brown cake batter was the chocolate cake batter by itself.

I mixed the white and chocolate cake batters to make the light brown.

Light Green and Dark Green Batter

For the green batters, I mixed some chocolate batter with green food coloring to create a darker green. 

I mixed white cake batter with green food coloring for the lighter green.

Yellow Cake Batter

When I was finished, I had five different colors of cake batter. The yellow cake batter was left plain.

Make Cupcakes

To make the cupcakes, I used a spoon to drop some of each cake batter color into a cupcake tin lined with cupcake wrappers.

You could also add the batter to squeeze bottles to distribute each color more evenly.

I then swirled the colors together, just a little bit, using a toothpick.

Bake cupcakes according to the package instructions. Allow to cool.

Make Frosting

To frost the cupcakes, I made my usual buttercream frosting.

I divided the frosting into three bowls, adding green and brown food coloring to two of them. You could also make chocolate frosting for the brown.

I added each of the three frostings to a piping bag.

Note: I found a tutorial showing how to place all three piping bags into a larger piping bag to create the swirl effect with the frosting. I could not get this to work for me, so I squeezed a little bit of each of the three colors of frosting into a large piping bag, and alternated colors up to the top.

Using a large star tip, I added frosting to each cupcake. Start in the middle of the cupcake and work your way to the outside edge in a circular pattern.

To display the cupcakes, I used my white cupcake stand. I covered each tier of the stand with moss from the craft store and then placed the cupcakes on the moss.

This is my favorite cupcake stand. It can be disassembled when not in use, and it takes up much less space!

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How to Make a Camouflage Cake

Since I didn’t need 72 cupcakes, I decided also to make a camouflage cake with the leftover batter. I dropped spoonfuls of the different colors of batter into a greased rectangular baking pan.

This time, I didn’t swirl the batter colors, but I ensured they were evenly distributed.

It turned out so cool once it was baked.

To frost the cake, I used pre-made chocolate frosting and frosted the sides and top one-third of the cake.

I used a star tip to add blue buttercream icing to the middle third of the cake to create the look of water.

I used orange buttercream icing to write “Happy 40th Birthday” and create a border around the edge of the cake.

Lastly, I added green buttercream icing to look like grass, large pretzel sticks covered in green icing to look like pine trees, and a small plastic deer.

I did not get many great pictures of the cake or the party. I think we were all having too much fun! 

Have you ever made a cake or cupcakes using multiple colors of batter?

You can find more ideas on my Hunting Party Pinterest board.

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Camo Cupcakes

Yield: 72 cupcakes

Learn how to easily make camo cupcakes for your next hunting or outdoor-themed party. 

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Ingredients

• Chocolate Box Cake Mix
• Yellow Box Cake Mix
• White Box Cake Mix
• Ingredients to Make Each Box Mix
• Brown Icing Color
• Green Icing Color
• Buttercream Frosting

Instructions

1. Prepare each cake mix according to package instructions.
2. Create five different colors of cake mix. (Dark brown - chocolate by itself, light brown - chocolate and white mixed, yellow - yellow by itself, light green - white mixed with green food coloring, dark green - chocolate mixed with white food coloring)
3. Spoon some of each cake batter color into a muffin tin lined with cupcake wrappers. 
4. Swirl the colors together using a toothpick or butter knife.
5. Bake the cupcakes according to the package instructions. Allow to cool.
6. Use store-bought or homemade buttercream frosting.
7. Divide the icing into three bowls. Leave one white, color one brown, and the other green.
8. Layer the three icing colors into a piping bag fitted with a star tip.
9. Start in the middle of the cupcake and work your way to the outside edge in a circular pattern.

Nutrition Information:

Yield: 72 Serving Size: 1
Amount Per Serving: Calories: 89Total Fat: 1gSaturated Fat: 1gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 0gCholesterol: 0mgSodium: 161mgCarbohydrates: 19gFiber: 0gSugar: 10gProtein: 1g

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