[BLUE] Raspberry Buttermilk Cupcakes

So like I've been talking about for almost all of my posts, I'm in this club - Circle K. Recently, we were allowed to be Family Heads. It's sort of like in the greek system where you have a big bro and a big sis and what not, but in Circle K, it's like a Mom and a Dad. Dmitriy and I decided to be family heads together. We are known as the Blue Shapangs (Shaprio + Yang = Shapang).

Tuesday was our first meeting, and we were supposed to wear our family colors - blue. EASY! I wanted to bring something extra along with me in the form of cupcakes. I had looked at my recipes, and quite a few of them were blue - as in blueberries, but going to the grocery store, the raspberries were only 99 cents but blueberries were 4.99. Guess which one I bought.

Dont these look like alien creatures wanting food?
Maybe I just try to entertain myself while baking and laughing at random things I think about.

So with these raspberries, I remembered this beautiful recipe made by Smitten Kitchen, but I still needed something blue.

I decided to dye the batter itself blue. Food coloring will be my best friend. I expect that I'll be using it a lot to get that unnatural color of blue. Even blueberries aren't blue. *sigh* I guess I'll have to see how well the blue lasts me. I'll probably give up after a month. As a surprise too, I added one chocolate chip in the little cup that the raspberry created. I wondered how many of the family members actually noticed.

Recipe for the raspberry buttermilk cupcakes
[found here]