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These galaxy cupcakes are a breeze to make with colored frosting and various candies and jimmies to create all the planets and stars. Galaxy-themed cupcakes are “out of this world!”
National Stargazing Day is May 7th, and International Astronomy Day following close behind on May 15th. Then there are meteor showers that we get every year.
I remember gazing at the stars when I was a kid with my dad. It was (and still is) one of my favorite things to do!
What I love about star gazing is the wonder of the stars and all the unknowns that space holds. As a side note, in a total proud nerd moment, the kid in me who watched William Shatner as James T. Kirk in Star Trek loved watching him go up in space.
I am SO happy with the way these galaxy cupcakes turned out! Aren’t they adorable?
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Galaxy Cupcakes Are Perfect For Anyone
Galaxy cupcakes can take forever to make because there’s color mixing to do and tons of mess to clean up. All that work makes for some beautiful cupcake designs, but it can be time-prohibitive to do.
Say “hello” to galaxy-themed cupcakes that are a breeze to make! In fact, they’re so hassle-free that the kids can help make them (or you can whip them up for a party or a classroom celebration)!
Reasons to love this galaxy cupcake recipe:
- Super easy to make with minimal cleanup.
- Beautiful cupcakes that look SO much harder than they are.
- Perfect to make with kids.
- Ideal for ANY occasion!
- Easy to adapt or personalize with your favorite colors and flavors!
Learn more about the solar system and have fun spicing up these pages with some color! Click this link or the image below 👇👇 to get your free solar system coloring pages.
How To Make Galaxy Cupcakes
You’ll be totally delighted with how easy these cupcakes are to make! Here’s the process.
Galaxy Cupcakes Ingredients Needed
- Chocolate cake mix + additional ingredients per directions (OR your favorite recipe)
- Black, blue, and purple frosting together in one piping bag with a large cut tip
- Silver sanding sugar
- Speckled jelly beans, cut in ½ (for space rocks)
- Gobstopper candy (for planets)
- Star-shaped sprinkles
Galaxy Cupcakes Instructions
Here’s the process for decorating these fun galaxy-themed cupcakes.
Step 1
Bake cupcakes per recipe and cool completely.
Step 2
Place blue frosting on one side of a piping bag and purple frosting on the other then fill with black frosting.
Making double-colored frosting will create a space swirl design.
Step 3
Pipe a flat swirl pattern on each cupcake.
Step 4
Sprinkle on silver sanding sugar.
Step 5
Place planets and space rocks around the cupcake.
Add star sprinkles.
Serve, share, and enjoy!
Galaxy cupcakes recipe tips:
- You can use any cupcake recipe that you like. I used a store-bought cupcake mix to make this recipe even easier.
- Make sure NOT to over-mix the batter so that the cupcakes rise well (and don’t go flat in the middle).
- If you choose to color white frosting instead of buying colored frosting, Be careful when working with gel food coloring. It WILL stain your hands, counter, or the floor! I recommend wearing silicone gloves and covering work and floor surfaces if you work with gel food coloring.
- Feel free to experiment with other colors that you like. You don’t need to follow this recipe “to the letter.”
FAQs
Here are a couple of questions I frequently see readers ask about making these galaxy-themed cupcakes. If you have a question but don’t see it answered below, please leave it in the comments!
How do you make Galaxy frosting?
There are a couple of different ways you can go about doing this. I prefer using already colored frosting and mixing colors together to get fun swirls. I find this easier than coloring white frosting with gel food coloring.
However, if you already have white frosting and food coloring, or you just want to make the personalized colored frosting, you can go that route too!
Learn more about the solar system and have fun spicing up these pages with some color! Click this link or the image below 👇👇 to get your free solar system coloring pages.
What colors go with galaxy cupcakes?
I chose to use blue, purple, and black colors. However, you could change the black to pink. Then play around with different colors of edible glitter to achieve the look you desire.
More Cupcake Fun!
If you love these galaxy cupcakes, be sure to check out these other fun ideas too!
- Melted Snowman Cupcakes
- Dark Chocolate Raspberry Cupcakes
- Easy DIY Speckled Mermaid Cupcakes
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