Rainbow Cupcakes

Rainbow cupcakes are created by coloring your batter before baking. We use gel food coloring for these and they turn out bright, colorful and delicious.

You will need:

White cake mix or homemade white cake
gel food coloring -colors of a rainbow
muffin pan and liners
6 bowls and 6 knife or spoons for mixing colors

Cupcake Rainbow Directions

Prepare your boxed or homemade cake batter. Pour 1/2 cup of batter in 6 different bowls. Color each bowl of batter a color of the rainbow by adding one or two drops of gel food coloring. Stir color into batter until completely blended.



Prepare your muffin pan by placing liners inside each cup or greasing each cup.

Add one color of batter with a spoon into each muffin tin. Start with purple if you'd like to mimic a rainbow. Spread the batter to reach the edges of the pan or shake the pan gently to settle the batter.


Continue with each color:
1st purple, then blue, green, yellow, orange and red on top.













Bake for 15-20 minutes or until toothpick inserted in the middle of your cupcakes comes out clean.



Allow to cool. Frost or eat as is.