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St Patrick’s Day Rainbow Cupcakes


Treat your little ones to the rainbow and maybe add in a pot of gold as well!

St Patrick's Day Recipe, Treats, Rainbow

There are many options that you can do with this cupcake. I was originally going to make rainbow cake pops and stick them in foam in the shape of a rainbow but I couldn’t find my foam. I also made some in the Wilton Mini Bundt Pan and when you cut them in half they look like a rainbow!

Ingredients:

rainbow cupcake, St Patrick's Day Recipe, Treats

  • White cake mix
  • Food coloring (red, blue, green, and yellow)

Directions:

  1. Prepare your favorite white cake mix, then divide the batter evenly among six small bowls. Following the chart below, dye each bowl of batter a rainbow color.
    RAINBOW COLOR DROPS OF FOOD COLORING
    Purple 9 red and 6 blue drops
    Blue 12 drops
    Green 12 drops
    Yellow 12 drops
    Orange 12 yellow and 4 red drops
    Red 18 drops

    St Patrick's Day treats, batter, cupcakes

  2. Line 16 muffin pan wells with baking cups or spray with non-stick cooking spray. Evenly distribute the purple batter among the cups, then the blue, and so on, following the order shown. As you go, gently spread each layer of batter with the back of a spoon to cover the color underneath. (make sure if you’re using the cake pop pan or bundt pan that you start your colors with red so red is on top when you flip them over.)
  3. Bake the cupcakes according to your recipe directions. Before serving, remove the paper wrapping, and if you like, top each cupcake with a whipped-cream cloud.

 

St Patrick's Day rainbow

Recipe idea from Family Fun. Bottom photo by Rob Krueger Photography.


About the author

Paula Paula is a mom of 3 who loves to blog and bake cakes. She started blogging at the insistence of her husband and found she loves it. She just finished up the Susan G. Komen 3-Day for the Cure® walk as the Chicago Keep Going Blogger. You can connect with her on twitter at @frostedfingers or on facebook.

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Comments

  1. Laurie says:

    This is a cute idea and I bet my boys would love it!

  2. Little BGCG says:

    These look delicious and SO much fun to make with some kiddos! I’ll have to do this when I visit NY!
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  3. Lisa says:

    they look pretty AND delicious
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  4. Henrietta says:

    Ooh! those are the prettiest cupcakes ever! they so remind me of spring, YUM!

  5. Those are WAY cool looking!
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  6. erin says:

    I love the colors!

  7. erin says:

    Taste the Rainbow! LOL!

  8. Kelly says:

    That’s adorable – I love it! I have such a hard time getting red frosting/icing – I’ve used the entire jar before and it still ends up hot pink.
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  9. Gina says:

    Ok i’m GOING to have to make these for my daughters class for St. Patricks Day. SO CUTE!
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  11. Jenn says:

    Gah! You are such a good mom! I am going to have to do this. I’ve seen numerous folks do this or similar over the past 5 years and have vowed to do it at least once…. maybe I’ll do it soon… hmmm DD’s bday is coming up in May! ;)
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  12. Melinda says:

    thats the freakiest looking thing LOL
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