What better way to kick off a rainy day then with some baking and what could be more fun than rainbow cupcakes. The entire thing may seem complicated but it really isn't. This is what you need...
Box White Cake
Food Coloring
Patience of a Saint.
(Don't you need this with any baking?)
First things first, prepare your box white cake as per instructions on the back. Which includes preheating your oven to 350.
See simple right? Now divide you batter into however many colors you would like your rainbow cupcakes to be. I chose to do five, purple, pink, blue, green and orange. Now don't make the same mistake I made and divide your batter as even as you possible can.
As you can see in the above picture I decided I needed to use as many mixing bowls as I could. When adding the color it is pretty much a guessing game. I started with 3 drops per bowl but when back and added more to some colors.
Mine turned out looking more pastel-ish in this picture but they were much brighter. In fact when all was said and done I really wished I would have used more coloring. Now go ahead and line your two regular size muffin tins with whatever colorful cupcake papers your little heart desires. Then spoon out layers of each color onto of one another in the cups until your cups are around 3/4 way full.
Not so pretty looking now. Just looks like a blob of purple paint fell on my lovely orange cupcakes. I so could have came up something better to call it but whatever. Anywho, go ahead and stick the pans in the oven and back for between 20-25 minutes. They should look something like this.
See....still not so pretty. The purple blob turned into more of a gray-sludge. Eww! I think it is time to show it cut in half.
Oh look! There's the pretty! I see the rainbow of blob of pastel joy.
So a tips I learned today...
1. Make sure all your ingredients are at room temp.
2. More food coloring = bright color!
3. I need to stop buying mixing bowls. (Pic to follow)
Food Coloring
Patience of a Saint.
(Don't you need this with any baking?)
First things first, prepare your box white cake as per instructions on the back. Which includes preheating your oven to 350.
See simple right? Now divide you batter into however many colors you would like your rainbow cupcakes to be. I chose to do five, purple, pink, blue, green and orange. Now don't make the same mistake I made and divide your batter as even as you possible can.
As you can see in the above picture I decided I needed to use as many mixing bowls as I could. When adding the color it is pretty much a guessing game. I started with 3 drops per bowl but when back and added more to some colors.
Mine turned out looking more pastel-ish in this picture but they were much brighter. In fact when all was said and done I really wished I would have used more coloring. Now go ahead and line your two regular size muffin tins with whatever colorful cupcake papers your little heart desires. Then spoon out layers of each color onto of one another in the cups until your cups are around 3/4 way full.
Not so pretty looking now. Just looks like a blob of purple paint fell on my lovely orange cupcakes. I so could have came up something better to call it but whatever. Anywho, go ahead and stick the pans in the oven and back for between 20-25 minutes. They should look something like this.
See....still not so pretty. The purple blob turned into more of a gray-sludge. Eww! I think it is time to show it cut in half.
Oh look! There's the pretty! I see the rainbow of blob of pastel joy.
So a tips I learned today...
1. Make sure all your ingredients are at room temp.
2. More food coloring = bright color!
3. I need to stop buying mixing bowls. (Pic to follow)
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