Rainbow Cupcakes
INGREDIENTS
  • Cooking Time: 16-21 minutes
  • Servings: 16
  • White cake mix (I used Betty Crocker)
  • Red, Blue, Green and Yellow food coloring
  • Favorite white icing
DIRECTIONS
  1. Preheat the oven according to box instructions. Prepare 16 muffin cups with cupcake liners.
  2. Mix the cake mix according to box instructions and evenly divide the batter between 6 small bowls. Color the 6 bowls as follows:
  3. Purple - 9 drops of red and 6 drops of blue
  4. Blue - 12 drops of blue
  5. Green - 12 drops of green
  6. Yellow - 12 drops of yellow
  7. Orange - 12 drops of yellow and 4 drops of red
  8. Red - 18 drops of red
  9. Combine well
  10. Keeping the colors in the same order as listed above, divide each color between the muffin cups, starting with purple, then blue, then green....etc etc until you have finished with red.
  11. Bake according to the instructions on the box
  12. Allow to cool completely and then frost with some white icing....making a cloud on top of your rainbow.
RECIPE BACKSTORY
One of the gals at work made these cute little cupcakes so of course I had to give them a try.....so fun!!