As I’ve already mentioned, Audrey Grace is studying rainbows in school this month in honor of St. Patrick’s Day. I thought it would be fun to go all-out with the rainbow crafts to celebrate – and she loved every second of it! After we made the rainbow art, we decided to go big or go home – and make rainbow cupcakes with rainbow icing.

Ok, so there are a lot of fun recipes out there, but being that I’m not super domestic and don’t have a lot of time – I didn’t make my own cake batter. I used store-bought white cake batter and cream cheese frosting that I grabbed, along with some cupcake wrappers, and gel food coloring at my local Walmart.

The materials:

The first order of business was to mix all of the necessary ingredients to make the batter. Once I did that, I separated it out into 6 different containers so that I could make the different colors of the rainbow. Using the gel colors, I made batter for red, orange, yellow, blue, green, and purple. This is what it looked like before I mixed them together…

And then after I mixed it all together…

The next order of business was to line the cupcake pan with wrappers and start filling them up in order. I started with a teaspoon full of red, then I dropped a teaspoon of orange in the middle of the red, then yellow in the middle of the orange, then green, then blue, then finally purple. Here is a picture of how it will look at each step – you can see at the bottom I only have red, then the second one is red with the orange, and so forth.

I did that for 6 cupcakes, then for the next 6 I reversed the colors – so I started with purple, then blue, then green, then yellow, then orange, then red. I like to mix it up a bit.

Then I baked them for 18 minutes. Depending on the batter that you use, just read the back of your box for the designated baking time. They came out happy and rainbow-ey – like this!

After we all took a few minutes to oooh and aahhh at my handy work, I started working on the icing. I used an icing bag with a star tip to frost the cupcakes. I decided to try something new, and try to make rainbow icing. I streaked the inside of the bag first with some of the gel food coloring and then loaded the icing into the bag. If I could do it over again, I would have pulled the icing further up the bag and not made it as concentrated towards the bottom. This is how the icing bag looked once I had the icing in it.

Then I went to town with the icing. It took all of 3 minutes to put icing on all 12 of these, while Audrey Grace hung on my arm and begged to eat one (she had to wait until after dinner). Because of the way that the food coloring was distributed, some of them have more vibrant colors in the icing than the others, but I still thought they looked neat. These would also look fun with a light blue icing or just plain white!

The best part, though, is biting into one and getting a mouthful of rainbow!

Enjoy!

Disclosure: This is a sponsored post on behalf of Walmart.