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Cotton Candy Cupcakes

This Delicious Cupcake Baking Recipe is Inspired by Carnival Treats

— July 20, 2015 — Lifestyle
If you're looking for a fun cupcake baking recipe to throw together this season, these dainty cotton candy cakes are both colorful and sweet tasting. These cupcakes take inspiration from the sweet cotton treat readily available at festivals and fairs.

While cotton candy is a scrumptious sweet treat, all the sugar found inside does reek a bit of havoc on your teeth. This recipe retains the same sweet and fruity flavors as the traditional candy tailored to a lighter and more satisfying dessert. The cupcakes are standard white vanilla made from butter, sugar, eggs and milk. Once the cakes have cooked, they're topped with pink and blue icing made from butter, powdered surgar and cotton candy flavoring covered in white sprinkles. This recipe even goes as far as to add mini cotton candies as decoration on top.

Trend Themes
1. Carnival-themed Desserts - The integration of carnival and fair-inspired treats into baking is a disruptive opportunity for the baking industry to create unique and nostalgic desserts.
2. Healthier Sweet Treat Alternatives - The creation of lighter and less sugary versions of traditional sweets like cotton candy presents an opportunity for the health and wellness industry to offer healthier options.
3. Innovative Cupcake Decorations - Using non-traditional decorations like miniature cotton candy on cupcakes in baking is a disruptive opportunity for the baking and confectionery industries to create visually appealing and unique products.
Industry Implications
1. Baking - The baking industry can explore carnival-themed dessert trends to create unique products that capture consumer nostalgia and provide innovative flavors.
2. Confectionery - Confectionery businesses can leverage the trend of using non-traditional decorations, like miniature cotton candy, on cupcakes to create visually appealing and unique products that stand out on store shelves.
3. Health and Wellness - The health and wellness industry can offer consumers alternative, healthier sweet treat options by creating light and less sugary versions of traditional sweets like cotton candy.
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