Sunday, May 03, 2009

Rainbow cupcakes

Inspired by the rainbow cake made at Omnomicon, we attempted to make rainbow cupcakes today by the same method - just to see if it would work. The hardest part was finding the concentrated gel food colorings, but I finally located them at the largest grocery store in our area. Then the fun began with 6 bowls of colored cake batter (just using a standard cake mix):


Dropped in rainbow order into the center of cupcake thingies:


The final batter appearance:


The view after baking:


And much to our surprise, slicing one open revealed a perfect inverted rainbow! Hurrah! (Now I wonder how it would look with uncolored batter to start and end the rainbow so it would have white in the middle instead of the solid purple center):


The most important part of cleanup is having an assistant standing by to lick the frosting off the beaters:

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8 comments:

  1. Kewl Nitrox7:44 PM, May 03, 2009

    Excellent. They look like radioactive cupcakes!

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  2. Nancy Toby8:08 PM, May 03, 2009

    Only the blue and green parts contain radium for phosphorescence.

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  3. SToby8:29 PM, May 03, 2009

    In my own childhood I remember the batter always tasted better than the cake. Licking it off the beaters was the second best way of getting it -- the best was off a rubber spatula, the few times my mother allowed it.

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  4. LBTEPA10:07 PM, May 03, 2009

    FABULOUS!

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  5. ShirleyPerly9:41 AM, May 04, 2009

    Those are the coolest cupcakes I've ever seen!!

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  6. Carrie11:36 AM, May 04, 2009

    Those are awesome!

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  7. Maryland Girl aka Michelle4:27 PM, May 05, 2009

    very cool. I see cupcakes in my future!

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  8. Holly1:58 PM, May 07, 2009

    Those cup cakes came out FANTASTIC! Very Very Cool! You are my only "Poison Ivy Killing - Rainbow Cupcake Making" Friend and you ROCK!

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