This was the first time I tried baking rainbow sponge cupakes, and I think they turned out okay. But I think I need to start using food coloring gel rather than the liquid. I’ve heard its must better and gives better colors, so I’ll be trying that next time.

I used the hummingbird bakery ‘vanilla cupcake’  recipe. It really doesnt matter which sponge recipe you use, but I must say the hummingbird recipe turned out really yummy! If your not so good with recipes you can always just use a packet mix!

You will need:

Recipe and ingredients for cupcake sponge and for frosting.

Cupcake liners

Food coloring (of your choice)

piping bag

zip lock bag

sprinkles!

Step 1.

Once I made up the sponge mixture, I divided it into 3 bowls. I made one pink, one green, and one that was meant to be purple but turned out a weird blue/grey color.

Step 2.

Get your zip lock bag, fill it with one color (put the mixture into one corner as this is essentially a piping bag) then pipe just a teaspoon on two into each cupcake liner. You dont want to run out of one color before you’ve gotten around to each case! If you have any left over go back over and see which ones could use a little more. Now repeat for all colors. I put the color just over each other, and it didnt have the perfect layered effect that I’d hoped but you could really play around with it. Like you could put all the pink on one side and it would turn out all randomized. You can really have fun so dont follow the rules with the layering too much!

Step 3.

Bake your cuppy cakes according to recipe and wait! Whilst waiting make your frosting. I made mint green frosting just because its my favorite!

Step 4.

Once cupcake are slighty browned and springy to touch bring them out of the oven and allow to cool. Once cooled prepare your frosting in a ‘real’ piping bag. I used an actual sugar cookie piping bag as they use bigger nozzles! Push all the frosting down into the nozzle, twist the rest of the bag around your haznd and apply pressure. Piping bags look really daunting at first, but they are my favorite to use now! Start on the outer part of the cupcake and apply pressure to your piping bag and go around in a swirl until you read the middle of the cupcake. Slightly push down and up to creat a ‘lick’ and whilst doing that take the pressure off the piping bag. It takes a little practice, but so much fun when you get the hang of it! Repeat for all 12 cupcakes!

Step 5.

Sprinkle with desired sprinkles, allow the frosting to set for a while say 30 mins to and hour ( you can eat them straight away but frankly i like the frosting to get a little more solid) then make yourself a nice cup of blackberry and apple tea and its nom nom cupcake time!

Well enjoy! I’m off now to plant my seedlings to start my veggie crop! I’m really excited about growing our own veggies yipppee…I just hope I inherited the green thumb that everyone in my family seems to have!

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