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Rainbow cupcakes

Rainbow cupcakes

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Get a little creative with your cupcakes by making these amazing rainbow cupcakes. Follow this easy recipe to see how it's done - they're not as hard as they look!

Makes: 16
Total time: 25 mins
Skill level: Easy peasy
Costs: Cheap as chips

Child friendly
Make in advance

Ingredients

Make your cupcakes from scratch with our basic cupcake recipe

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White cake mix (we used an 18¼-ounce box)
Food coloring (red, blue, green, and yellow)
Cupcake cases
Whipped cream (optional)

Food colouring amounts:

Purple = 9 red and 6 blue drops
Blue = 12 drops blue
Green = 12 drops green
Yellow = 12 drops yellow
Orange = 12 yellow and 4 red drops
Red = 18 drops red

Method

Prepare your favorite white cake mix, then divide the batter evenly among six small bowls. Dye each bowl of batter a rainbow color (with specific amounts of food colouring drops).
Line 16 a muffin tray with cupcake cases.. Evenly distribute the purple batter among the cups, then the blue, and so on, following the order shown. As you go, gently spread each layer of batter with the back of a spoon to cover the color underneath.
Bake the cupcakes according to your recipe directions. Before serving, remove the paper wrapping, and if you like, top each cupcake with a whipped-cream cloud.

By Disney Family Fun www.familyfun.com

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Nutritional information

Guideline Daily Amount for 2,000 calories per day are: 70g fat, 20g saturated fat, 90g sugar, 6g salt.

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Elaine Spencer

2:38 PM on 25 July, 2011

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I made my first batch of these a few weeks ago,and the novelty of all the different colours caused many comments,I made another dozen this week for a family get together,and they were the first to go,the men seem to find them as much fun as the children .

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minicoopergirl

11:11 AM on 17 July, 2011

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Hi wanting to make these for a large family gathering in August with small children present and trying to organise myself with the minimum of prep beforehand. Where can I get the white cake mix as specified? Thank you.

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LittleMissLovette

2:56 PM on 4 June, 2011

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I've Literally JUST made these using the basic cupcake recipe mixture recommended and they've turnt out fantastically. The amount for each batter however is very critical and was wondering if anyone knew roughly how much batter should make up each layer of the cupcake, to achieve the perfect rainbow cupcake.

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woowoo1011

7:39 PM on 17 April, 2011

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i made these rainbow cupcakes with my 2 year old niece Libby she really enjoyed mixing the different colours. i used the basic cupcake receipe and we topped them with butter icing and anything libby wanted to put on them, they were yum and didnt last very long. They are not fiddle to do they look really great and she now wants them making for her 3rd birthday in June. great idea and great fun.

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stephlia

9:15 AM on 15 April, 2011

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these look amazing! my little boy will enjoy making and eating these!
could you also us one of those giant cupcake molds for this? or would it not give the same effect?

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lorraine247

8:12 AM on 8 April, 2011

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wow these look brilliant, could you just make your own cake mix say a vanilla cupcake mix or is there a reason why you would use a bought one?

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RoseLane

4:29 PM on 7 April, 2011

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My grandmother made these for me when I was but a tiny girl; my mother made them as well; I made them for our children and now our children are making them for their children. They are cheerful...and delicious! We made them by just dropping teaspoons full of different colors rather than a rainbow - they were just bursts of color. Thank you for adding this one!

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Stargirl

2:05 PM on 7 April, 2011

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Wow these look amazing! I never thought to add food colouring to cake mix...

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Holly Recipes Assistant

11:56 AM on 7 April, 2011

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I LOVE these! I though they'd be so much harder to make - will definitely be trying these!

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