Red, white and blue cupcakes

Just a quick post--I have been thinking about cake decorating most of the day and got materials to make dummy cakes to decorate. (And then, what, I'm not sure.  They can't really sit on my dining room table.  Maybe I could take a tiered, decorated styrofoam cake to work as a backdrop while I work on fiscal reports?)  But it was getting late, so I decided to go the cupcake route tonight.  

I made these cupcakes to share with the neighbors for the fourth of July holiday using the same technique I did for the rainbow cupcakes a couple of months ago.