These Rainbow Cupcakes are so beautiful! Light, sweet and delicious cupcakes that look like they came striaght from a story book!Â
Rainbow Cupcakes
It’s the final day of Cupcake Week! And I saved this fun, colorful, rainbow cupcake for last.
It’s got five layers of colorful cake batter to create this gorgeous, rainbow swirled cupcake. Then it’s topped with pillowy soft buttercream frosting and fun rainbow sprinkles. How cute would these cupcakes be for a birthday party??
Here are the five colors I used, found at Hobby Lobby.
And here’s the order I added them in, starting with the green layer on the bottom and finishing with the purple layer on top.
I’ve been wanting to make rainbow cupcakes ever since I first laid eyes on them, but kept putting it off because I thought it’d be pain with five bowls of cake batter. But it was seriously not that bad, I don’t know why I waited so long! If you’ve been wanting to make rainbow cupcakes, go for it! You will love how these turn out. So fun!
I used Sweetapolita’s Fluffy Vanilla Cake again for these cupcakes, and I’m going to send you over to her blog to get the recipe.
Thanks for joining me for cupcake week!! I absolutely loved every minute of it. Have a fabulous weekend, friends! xoxo
Click HERE to get the recipe for Fluffy Vanilla Cake!
NOTES
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- I weighed all my ingredients.
- I used Egg Beaters Egg Whites in place of the egg whites, so I wouldn’t have leftover yolks. So easy and worked PERFECT!
- Â I used 1 tablespoon vanilla extract.
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Cupcake Assembly
5 bottles food coloring in assorted rainbow colors
After preparing the cupcake batter, divide it evenly into 5 bowls (about 1 cup of batter each). Tint each bowl of cake batter with the food coloring until bright and vibrant.
For STANDARD cupcakes, grease and line muffin tins with cupcake liners, and layer 2 teaspoons of each cake batter in the prepared muffin tins. I used this 2-teaspoon scoop, found at Target, to make this go quickly. Bake at 350 for 18-22 minutes.
PrintButtercream Frosting for Rainbow Cupcakes
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Prep Time: 10 minutes
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Cook Time: 0 minutes
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Total Time: 10 minutes
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Yield: Frosts about 24 cupcakes 1x
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Category: Dessert
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Method: No Bake
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Cuisine: American
Description
These Rainbow Cupcakes are so beautiful! Light, sweet and delicious cupcakes that look like they came striaght from a story book!
Ingredients
- 1 cup (2 sticks) butter, softened
- 3 cups powdered sugar
- 1/2 cup heavy cream
- 2 teaspoons Tahitian vanilla extract
Instructions
Place the butter, sugar, cream and vanilla in a large mixing bowl. Beat on medium speed until smooth and creamy, about 3-5 minutes. If necessary, add more cream, one tablespoon at a time, beating for 1-2 minutes after each addition until desired consistency is reached. Pipe onto cupcakes and top with rainbow sprinkles!
Do you have to grease and line with liners?
How many cupcakes did this make. Plus the frosting was enough for how many cupcakes?
couldn’t access the fluffy vanilla cake recipe, can anyone help me?
Beautiful pictures! Just wanted to let you know that my reader was filled with about 50-75 repeats of your posts, might want to check it out!
these cupcakes look amazing!! I am definately going to give them a try. Thanks for posting the recipe!
I have absolutely ADORED cupcake week. I think that cupcakes=Happiness. Please continue to gather yummy cupcake recipes and have another cupcake week next year… or in a few months… or next week… :)
Amanda, where can I get some of those plates and cupcake liners? Super cute, as always.
Colorful cupcakes! Bet it’s great at birthday parties — the kids would go crazy!!!
Hello Mrs.
I want buying a SLR camera
What do you recommend, Nikon or Canon?
Such a fun cupcake! This week was great, can’t wait to try out some of these amazing cupcakes you posted.
I never have the patience or skill to make my baked cutes cute ‘n pretty, but I love looking at picture of those are are more talented than I’ll ever be. Adorable cupcakes!
These are so much fun, maybe I can try them with my 4 year old niece, she’d love this!!
I gained weight just reading this blog this week!
i love the psychedelic rainbow colors…what a happy cupcake for Friday!
This was the perfect way to end the week! I’ve seen these in variations and they did look like a pain but if you say they’re not that bad, I’m gonna trust you on that! Oooh, maybe I’ll make them for St Patricks Day!
Thanks for all of the yummy recipes!
LOVE all the recipes!!!! thanks for sharing!!
I just loved your cupcake week. Saved all your recipes and can’t wait to try them out when I get back up north and back to my grandchildren. Being a snowbird is good but being home with all the kids is better. Love all your posts. Thanks so much.
I just received an AmeriColor product today! The bright white soft gel paste that was recommended to me to make really bright white icing.
I love how bright your cupcakes are! For Pride Parade here, people make rainbow everything…and you could make a fortune selling these :)