Buttermilk Yellow Cake

For the Fourth of July I followed Martha's super easy decorating idea: twizzler flags!
The yellow buttermilk cupcakes were super easy and made a huge batch, 36. They were moist and delicious without being too sweet.
However the Swiss Meringue Buttercream icing was less successful. I had made the recipe before and it turned out alright, but this time it was a little too runny. The original recipe makes way too much for a normal batch, so i halved it, but it's difficult to divide 5 eggs in half. I opted for 3, which is where the extra moisture probably came from. The buttercream icing in general is not my favorite, not sweet enough. It's a lot like eating solid butter. Sounds good, doesn't it? Considering the recipe calls for a pound of it, I'm not surprised.
The decorations were super easy, just cut up strips of the pull and peel twizzlers, and add dots of blue icing. Easy as cake!