I have been seeing rainbow cupcakes around the web (they are perfect for St. Patrick’s day…especially with those gold wrapped coins around them) and I decided they would be just right for Chloe’s Fairytale Birthday party. They aren’t that difficult and the results are lovely.
I began my cupcakes with two white cake mixes. Some recipes suggested using egg whites only to keep the colors true and vibrant. I didn’t seperate my eggs and the colors were very rich.
So, I simply followed the instructions for the cake mix and divided the batter into six smaller bowls. Then colored each bowl of batter seperately.

How I mixed my colors:
Purple 18 red and 12 blue drops
Blue 24 drops
Green 24 drops
Yellow 24 drops
Orange 24 yellow and 8 red drops
Red 36 drops
This is approximate because I used gel food coloring- more vibrant coloring- and I added a drop here or there to acheive my desired results.

Once they were in rainbow colors I put the baking cups in my pans and started layering the colored batters one teaspoon at a time in the order listed above. I had 2 cupcake pans so I divided each batter into 24 cupcake liners. Really it would have made more than 24 had I used less than a teaspoon of each color but I didn’t figure that out soon enough…these were big cupcakes because each liner was filled practically to the top. I spread each layer a bit with my finger to make more even stripes of color.

I baked these the day before and frosted them just before the party. I melted the frosting a bit to make it smoother. I was going to pipe it on but I had an icing bag malfunction. The rainbow candy strips are readily available in many stores.

They were super cute and Chloe loved them…well loved how they looked actually…she doesn’t really like cake or frosting that much ♥