Monday, March 28, 2011

Day 2 - Rainbow Cupcakes


Introducing one of the most long awaited recipe requests I have gotten in a while. These delectable, cute, small, and utterly colorful cupcakes are sure to make a great treat. I hope you enjoy and I apologize in advance for the humongous post this is going to be :)

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Ingredients --
  • 1 Box of White Cake Mix
  • 3 eggs
  • 1/4 vegetable oil
  • 1 cup water
  • Assortment of Gel Food Coloring (in all colors)
  • Homemade icing (optional)

Directions --
  • Preheat your oven to the needed temperature ; 375
  • In a large bowl prepare the cake mix as stated on the box
  • Gather together 6 bowls, 6 spoons(one for each color), and your food coloring
  • Evenly distribute the cake batter amongst the 6 bowls using a measuring cup or spoon
  • In each bowl squeeze an equal amount of food coloring (one color per bowl)
  • For the orange: mix 3 drops yellow with 1 drop red
  • For the purple: mix 3 drops blue and 2 drops red
  • Stir each bowl until all the bowls are the desired color
  • In a lined muffin pan spoon in the colors in backwards order of the rainbow
  • purple, blue, green, yellow, orange, red ; forming layers of color
  • Bake as stated on the box
  • Let cool and top with homemade icing (optional)
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Note - for petite cupcakes use a mini muffin pan and smaller amount of batter
Note - Use caution when mixing the purple ; it can get very yucky
Note - FEEL FREE to make your own batter -- i was just being lazy
Note - Although gel food coloring works the best; liquid is fine too
Note- Don't forget to cut it open and see the rainbow!

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Recipe copyright to me
Image copyright to BakingBites

2 comments:

  1. In my experience, liquid works as well as, if not better, than gel...

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  2. liquid can change the consistency, and thin the batter. But like i said, it works too

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