Rainbow Cupcakes :3

Welcome to our new piece where we're going to give tutorials on different things (mostly baking).

It's Erin with you today and I got bored on Sunday evening, as I was rummaging through the cupboard I found some cupcake mix so I decided to make some cupcakes, not boring cupcakes though, some rainbow cupcakes!

What you'll need to do this is some cupcake mix (you can make your own mix if you wish but I find it is often easier and saves time just to use some mix), whatever your mix specifies you need (in my case eggs and water), food colour and some cupcake case. If you wish you can use frosting, or icing, whether bought or made yourself (I made my own icing in this case) and some decorations such as sugar stars or hundred's and thousand's.

First you need to make your mix as specified until it is the right consistency

Once you've done this you need to separate your mix evenly depending on how many colours you're using, I'm doing mine as red, yellow and blue so I have split it into 3 bowls evenly as you can see above.

Add your food colour and mix until you get your desired colour for each layer of the cupcake

Make sure you have your oven preheated by this point. Now you need to put your cases into the cupcake tray and spoon the mix in your desired order (be warned, this can get messy so prepare for some cleaning up to be done). I started with red so fill each case evenly with the one colour. When you move onto the next colour, be sure to then add the next colour trying to cover as much so you can't see the colour underneath (as you can tell I failed with a few of them...)

Once you've done this, it's time to pop them in the oven and let these babies bake!

Have fun in there young ones!

If you're anything like me, during the 20 minutes or so that these take to bake, you will most likely take a few selcas (self captures) out of boredom to pass the time...

 

Once they're out they should look something like this:

While we wait for them to cool, it's time to prepare the decorations! I was going to use chocolate frosting however changed my mind and decided to make icing while I waited for these to cool. I raided my cupboards for some decorations (I'm not the most creative person in the world!). Here were some of the decorations I ended up with:

Decorating these was pretty basic for me, just some coating of icing and then a dash of sprinkles, sugar stars or hundreds and thousands ontop and they were done!

And voila! You should have your rainbow cupcakes!

When taken out of the case

After taking a bite

If you want to have some sort of a tie die effect within them, you can get a toothpick and 'stir' the mix when in the cupcake cases, just before you put them into the oven.

I do recommend experimenting with this as you can do many other things for this such as ones I have previously done before, especially seeing as this is the basic rainbow cupcake tutorial with only 3 colours.

Irish Flag St Patricks Day cupcakes

'Real' Rainbow Cupcakes

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