Recipe

Eat your Post-Election Feelings with this Cupcake

By Bronwen Schriml at University of Maryland

By Lucy Bedewi at University of Maryland

Make the cupcake great again! Using only the best ingredients, the Trump Cake would make any Nasty Woman proud...or sad...or angry...

Trump Cupcake

  • Prep Time: 1 hr
  • Cook Time: 18 mins
  • Total Time: 1 hr 18 mins
  • Servings: 12
Ingredients
  • 1 1/2 cups flour
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 2 large eggs room temperature
  • 2/3 cup granulated sugar
  • 1 1/12 sticks butter melted
  • 2 teaspoons grated orange zest
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1/2 cup milk

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Step 1

Preheat oven to 350˚F.

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Step 2

Mix flour, baking powder, and salt and set aside for later.

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Step 3

Beat sugar and eggs together (separately from ingredients in step 1).

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Step 4

Add butter, slowly.

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Step 5

Add vanilla and orange zest.

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Step 6

Alternate beating in dry ingredients from step 1 and milk.

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Step 7

Place in lined cupcake tin about 2/3 full for each, bake for 18 min

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Icing

  • Prep Time: 8 mins
  • Total Time: 8 mins
  • Servings: 12
Ingredients
  • 3 cups powdered sugar
  • 1/3 cup softened butter
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla
  • 3-4 tablespoons milk add as needed
  • USA colored sprinkles optional
  • Yellow food coloring

Step 1

Combine powdered sugar and butter.

Step 2

Add vanilla.

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Step 3

Add milk.

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Step 4

Add 3 drops of yellow food dye.

Step 5

Put plastic bag in tall glass, then fill with icing.

Step 6

Close the bag and cut one of the corner for makeshift piping bag.

Step 7

Ice the cupcakes!

Photograph by Bronwen Schirml