A few weeks ago, I was asked to make cupcakes for a birthday. I did not want to spend a lot of time in the kitchen, but I wanted to make the cupcakes special. I remembered seeing a tutorial on making rainbow cake a long time ago, and thought, I can do that — with cupcakes! It was actually really easy to do. The rainbow part is a surprise inside.
They look just like regular cupcakes, right? Yes they do. Now take a bite and look inside…
Surprise! Lovely rainbow yumminess!
Want to know how to make them?
Just make a quick batch of white cake mix. Split into 6 little cups. Dye each one with the 6 colors of the rainbow. You will drop the batter into each cupcake liner (this made 36) in order: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple. Put a little batter in the center of the batter before. This kinda makes it spread out when it bakes & it looks like the rainbow.
I frosted it with some leftover buttercream that my mother-in-law made awhile back. I froze it, so it would stay good. 
This helped with the whole quick cupcake thing and staying out of the kitchen!
Will you make these cupcakes? What do you think?
These are SO CUTE!!! I am definitely going to make these the next time I make cupcakes!
I’ll also show these to my younger sister-she wants to open a bakery one day and she is always making cakes and cookies. I bet she’ll love them! Thanks for the great idea!
Quick question—do you know approximately how much food coloring you had to use for each color?
Whoa. 60′s flashback. Tie dye. Perfect for a 60′s party.
Or for me…
I might make those sometime
Actually, I made chocolate/vanilla marbled cupcakes once and those were sooo fun! It was very similar, vanilla mix and then take half of it in a separate bowl and mix in some chocolate syrup. Then using two spoons, basically drizzle both in the cup in interesting designs and voila, marbled cupcakes
Another reason for a party? Sounds good to me!
That sounds cool! My mom has a kit to make a checker cake. It never really worked for me though. Guess I will have to try again,
Sarah – We actually just guessed with how many drops we put in. I would say around 20 or 30 per color. And you mix blue and red to make purple, and yellow and red to make orange. Our box of food coloring had a suggestion of a color ratio for mixing, so we used that. Please let me know if you need any more help! Good luck! And thanks everyone, they were fun, super cute, and tasty!
Thanks, Megan! I’m pregnant and these are so cute know that I definitely want to make this for my kid’s 1st birthday! I’ll probably practice it with my sister soon, though!