These rainbow cupcakes were made from a standard white cake mix and look so pretty!
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My son’s eyes lit up when I suggested we make cupcakes. Then I mentioned we would be making rainbow cupcakes. He wasn’t so sure. But I managed to convince him!
After preheating the oven my son helped me place all the mini cupcake liners into the baking pan – this was fiddly work!
To make these rainbow cupcakes we used a regular white cupcake mix then added food dye to it! F helped me make the cake mix in the stand mixer – we used apple sauce instead of oil because, well, why wouldn’t you?!?
Once the mixture was smooth, I divided it into five bowls. I added a few drops of food dye to each one, and F got mixing and stirring.
As usual I chickened out of adding a ton of dye and making them super bright colors. So if such a thing as a pastel rainbow exists – I think that’s what we made!
Then it was time to add a little bit of each color to the cupcake liners.
F started well but for some reason this didn’t hold his attention – and I thought it was the best part! So he played trains for a while and left me to play cupcakes! These little ones only took 10 minutes to cook in the oven.
I had loads of mixture left over. I had been trying to do rainbow layers with the mini ones but it was too tricky. So I tried regular sized ones! It was all too easy to overfill them which is why there isn’t much of the pink/red cake mix on the top!
When it was time to eat, F mysteriously reappeared! I decided not to frost them because they were pretty enough without and why add extra sugar? He said they were yummy!
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Those look amazing! They’re just so pretty I would probably stick with the pastel rainbow as well 🙂
These look SO CUTE! Great job 🙂
I just found your profile on twitter and had to pop right over! I can see I’m going to spend a while botanizing here!
I’m a ‘crafty’ Brit mum too 😉 …In Sweden. Where in the USA are you?
Hi Steph! I’ll pop over to your site now. I’m in Illinois!
They were so yummy!
these turned out beautiful! My daughter would LOVE to make these. I found your recipe from Teaching 2 and 3 year olds.
Thank you so much!!