Bear Bites

As I mentioned in a previous post, the Chicago Bears playoff game was disappointing. However, these Bear Bites were a big hit! You know when boys oooh and ahhh over cupcakes you're doing something right. It's embarrassing how easy they are to make!

It all started when I made a rainbow cake. After that turned out so adorable I was hooked! I don't remember the process of making mini multi-colored cupcakes to be so time consuming but I suppose I wasn't trying to keep an eye on an 8 month old baby back then either ;) Probably factors in!

So anyway, here is how to make these ridiculously simple cupcakes. Feel free to use them with your favorite team colors!

Ingredients:

• 1 box white cake mix (mmm, Pillsbury French Vanilla!)
• Whatever the box calls for (eggs, water, oil)
• Food coloring of choice

Directions:

• Prepare cake batter as the box states.
• Separate batter into two different bowls.
• Add food coloring of choice until you reach desired color. I'll admit, I used an entire bottle of blue liquid food coloring and entire small Wilton jar of orange gel food coloring. It's hard to get those bright colors!
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• Now add a little blue to the cupcake liners, then a little orange. Repeat as necessary! Don't worry about them being even. It looks better when they're a little crazy!
• Bake at 350 until a toothpick inserted comes out clean.

I told you they were easy :)

And HOW FUN!

I did make a few regular sized versions, but the "Bear Bites" (aka NFL Minis) were a much bigger hit at the party.

Truth be told, I had good intentions to do striped blue and orange frosting swirls on all of them. But as I mentioned above, I ran out of food coloring! So then I debated just doing plain frosting, but I thought it might distract from the overall fun level... so I left them plain. They were gobbled up regardless.

And until next season, one last time... GO BEARS!