End of the Rainbow
Is your mind sufficiently blown?? Mine is! I am absolutely tickled that these cupcakes turned out so well! It all started with me trying to figure out a St Patrick’s Day dessert for today’s Half Baked. I’m sure you could google and find seven thousand green desserts, but I wanted to be a little more thoughtful. The train of thought was leprechauns -> pot of gold -> rainbow and the great part is you can give this to someone and they’ll be like “wow, thanks, a cupcake” and then they’ll take a bite and have their socks knocked off by your creative genius! This little ditty doesn’t require any baking prowess, just patience and a steady hand, oh, and some food coloring.
Color Me Mine
Here’s What You’ll Need:
One white cake mix (the boxed kind) mixed per the instructions
Food Coloring: red, green, yellow, blue
Cupcake liners
White Icing (they make spray can options now which is what I used here) it’s called “Cupcake Icing” imagine that!
Mixing Up Purple
To start, fill your cupcake pan with liners. Now take about 3/4 of a cup of the white cake mix and add it to a small bowl. Add six drops of red dye and four drops of blue dye and mix well. If it’s not dark enough, add more dye. Be sure to blend really well.
Scoop
Use a small ice cream scoop to drop the purple batter into the base of your cupcake liner. Use a butter knife to smooth it out into an even covering of the base of your cupcake
I've Got the Blues
Now remove another 3/4 cup of the white batter and place into a new small bowl. Add blue food coloring and blend well. Wash off your ice cream scoop (so there’s no purple on it) and add a blue scoop gently to the top of your purple.
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- Purple then Blue
Use your clean butter knife to VERY gently smooth the layer out to the edges. For the rainbow affect it’s important that each layer is even.
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- Smooth It Out
Sometime around this point I realized I didn’t know the lineup of a rainbow so I had to google image it. I’ve included here for you too… thank God for Blackberry!
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- Rainbow Connection
Continue your layers (I did purple, blue, green, yellow, red) all the way up. For the top layer (you probably wont have a ton of batter left) so do a little dollop of your red batter but don’t smooth out. It will naturally start to spread in the oven. Bake per the box instructions and until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.
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- Even Without Icing They’re Cute
Allow to cool and then use your icing to create a “cloud” affect on top of each cake. I did little groups of puffs.
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- A Cloudy Day
Taste the Rainbow
Enjoy!!
Rainbows End
18 Comments
What a delightful array of pictures. Well done.
genius! I will definitely try this!!
Oh my goodness! Color me impressed!!!
Roy G. Biv
Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet
LOVE this idea! I’ll pass it on to our personal baker aka daughter.
OK….never thought this would have worked. Great job!!
Do you think one could do a cake like this? This too cool!! I likie, I likie!
I can honestly say I have never in 55 years seen such a beautiful, yummy cupcake! This is a winner!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hi Angela, I actually got this idea when I saw a layer cake where each round layer (divided by icing) was a different color. I don’t think you could do a cake in the same way I did these cupcakes since it would require a TON of batter to fill an 8 inch round… but there’s only one way to find out. ; ) give it a whirl and let me know how it goes!
Hi Rachel! I know your sister, Christina, and she linked to this last week on Facebook. I bookmarked it immediately because I am a cupcake addict, and I have more boxes of white cake mix than is necessary. Anyway, my birthday is next week and I will definitely be making these!
Thank you for such an amazing idea!
OMG!!! I love it!!!
Thanks for the great visual! I love seeing how other people’s processes work! These look like a lot of fun to make. Thanks for the creative idea!
I’ve made the rainbow cake before , next time I’ll make your cupcakes to go along with it.
Love these! Making these with my daughter today! We are going to put gold coins, you know those milk chocolate coins wrapped in gold foil, on top of the frosting for an end of the rainbow pot of gold touch!
Nice website, I think I recognize this design from somewhere, is it a template? It suits your website anyway.
I love your cupcakes! They are so pretty!
I’m going to make these soon for my grandchildren.
I love this idea, I saw it when you posted it on facebook and I have to try it! I am all into baking cupcakes right now and I decided that for the kids birthday I would do these instead of a cake! I will let you know how it goes….
These ae wonderful! I am sending this article to my daughter. She can use with Special Ed. Cooking classes. Thanks for such a fun ay to make cupcakes. They will Love making them!
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