Rainbow Cupcakes

Yum!

A few weeks ago I was not bored as much as wanting to do something both creative and edible. With a box of white cake mix, vanilla frosting, and some food coloring and the adventure began.

I made the cake mix per the instructions and then I divided out portions of it into 5 different bowls. I added food coloring to four of the bowls and then just started to make my cupcakes.

I took a spoonful of one color and then another and another until the cupcake cup was two thirds full.

For some cupcakes, I tried to layer the colors and others I took a toothpick and tied to swirl the colors around. In the end, it was a colorful mess.

Once the cupcakes were out of the oven and cooled I added the frosting. I wanted the frosting to also be colorful so I scooped it into a zip lock bag, I don't own pastry bags and didn't think to grab one earlier, squeezed all the frosting into one corner, added a few drops of coloring and then cut the tip off the bag and began to squeeze/pipe the frosting out. I can thank that idea to the show The Great British Bake Off.

You can see from the pictures a few cupcakes without frosting and then some with the frosting.

How did they taste? Okay, they tasted just okay. The adding of the food dye caused the flavors to change a little bit. Not enough that I wouldn't do it again, I think I would just want to make sure that the cake was flavored with something. Maybe some strawberry in the pink or some lemon in the yellow, or just some kind of overall stronger vanilla for the cake itself.

Since we don't need a dozen and a half cupcakes for just 3 people, and I didn't make enough for my workgroup or my husband's workgroup we sent them to work with the Broha.

However, to make sure the cupcakes made it through the night I had to kitty proof them.

I enjoyed making these cupcakes. If you've got an extra 30 minutes or so to add a little bit of color to your next baking creation I would highly recommend it.

Thanks for reading and if you've ever made colorful cupcakes like this before what did you think? What would you do different, or have done different the next time? Leave me a comment below!