Rainbow Cupcakes

Hello, and welcome once again to Kitchen Experiments.

This episode, we're in an all new kitchen, and we've had some trials and tribulations with the oven and some of our favorite fallback desserts, but now it's time for something new.

Rainbow Cupcakes.


I was inspired by the LJ Comm bakebakebake, in which various persons post of their kitchen exploits and experiments. I came across several posts about rainbow cakes, and one about pudding icing. I couldn't help myself. Off the kitchen I went.

For my cake, I used the tried and true Simple White Cake from All Recipes. It's just awesome. I use it all the time. So the process of separating the batter into six separate containers and dying it all different colors was interesting, and a bit time consuming, but ended up with beautiful results.

This is after being layered in the jumbo baking cups that eventually I'll get rid of.

And into the oven they went!
And out of the oven they came!
And into the fridge they went!
And out of the fridge they came, now ready to be frosted!


For the frosting, I used one box of Jell-O chocolate pudding, 8 oz of cream cheese, and a splash of milk, as suggested by the post. The texture was wonderful, but the cream cheese was a bit pungent for the chocolate flavor, so I added about 1/2 cup powdered sugar, a teaspoon of cocoa powder, and a teaspoon of vanilla. After the additions, the frosting was just right. Very rich, and very smooth.

So, the cupcakes were frosted and sprinkled, (for what is a cupcake if without sprinkles? Answer: A sad cupcake.) and macro-ed.


And the glorious innards:

From Rainbow Cupcakes

These are claimed to be a success. Will most certainly use and elaborate on this frosting recipe again. Perhaps, vanilla pudding with strawberry cream cheese? The possibilities are ENDLESS!