Baking 101....

We had a birthday this past weekend at work, so I decided to bake something special. Ok, it was cupcakes, not so special, but they were rainbow coloured, with pink icing AND they were egg free for those coworkers that can't eat eggs: VERY special. And for a very special lady!


Making rainbow cupcakes is no easy task. I'd have to say that they took about 4X as long as just plain old boring cupcakes. I had to divide the batter into 6 bowls, notice how many different sized bowls I have? It was pretty ridiculous.

Colours you can't really make well with cake batter: Green, blue, purple, orange and red. In fact, the only colour that worked out well was the yellow, probably because the batter was already yellow. Instead of bright, bold colours, I ended up with this collection of pastels.

Now came the time consuming part....layering each colour in as per the rainbow. 24 cupcakes x 6 colours = 144 teaspoons, one at a time. A tedious process, but Kat is worth it.





Into the oven, 18 minutes of aging at 350° and the cupcakes were ready. By ready, I mean ready to cool off for another 30 minutes before I could ice them. I burned my fingertips on one because I wanted to see how the colours turned out. The layers worked pretty well, but the like colours blended a bit.







This picture here was just a few random cupcakes I did with the remaining batter I had. It sort of looks like someone threw up colour on them. After baking, the purple was light brown on the outside, but purple in the middle. And some of the blue worked it's way up to the top, through all the other colours. Cupcake physics must be amazing!

VOILA!

The end result - totally worth it. My taste-testers agreed. Although they didn't like the star sprinkles....of course I had already put them on ALL the cupcakes.

Happy Belated Birthday Kat! Enjoy!