These fun rainbow colored cupcakes are a big hit with kids and kids at heart.
Amazing Technicolor Dream Cakes
These fun rainbow colored cupcakes are a big hit with kids and kids at heart.
Servings
24 Servings
Ingredients
- 1 box vanilla or white cake mix or your favorite cake recipe
- red blue, and yellow food coloring
Instructions
- Prepare cake mix per package directions. Separate batter into smaller bowls equaling the number of desired colors for the finished cake.
- Using food coloring, color each bowl of cake batter your desired shade. Red + Blue = Purple, Blue + Yellow = Green, Yellow + Red = Orange.
- Spoon approximately one teaspoon of each color into the center of the cupcake cup (each spoonful will spread the batter out). Repeat for all cupcake cups.
- Using a butter knife, fold the batter in each cup 2 to 3 times, in different directions, to slightly mix the colored layers. Finish up by drawing a “figure 8” in each cup. Do not overmix; the colors should remain distinct.
- Bake cupcakes per package directions. Frost and decorate as desired.
- Optional: For added interest, add a few drops of fruit extract to each portion of colored batter for a flavored cake. For example, cherry for red, lime for green, orange for orange, etc.
Thank you. I will try it this Sun. and see how it works out.
If you want to make your won vanilla frosting here is a recipe – http://www.joyofkosher.com/recipe/quick-simple-pareve-vanilla-frosting/
Hi Michele,
The topping seen here is just purchased vanilla frosting with decorative sugar on top. To make the coil, simply transfer the frosting into a zip loc sandwich bag, cut a hole in the corner, and pipe on in coils. You can make the frosting rainbow colored as well by separating frosting into smaller portions, coloring them with food coloring, and then placing the colored frosting back into the bag (take care not to mix the colors too much in doing so. Pipe as directed above, and you should get a tie dye effect frosting. 🙂
I have not tried freezing these cupcakes, but I don’t see why it wouldn’t work. Frost when thawed.
can you please give a recipe for the topping. Also can this be made in advance and frozen?