Cupcakes are the perfect dessert

I'm not a big fan of cooking.  My husband is much better than I could ever be so he does most of the cooking.  I do like to bake though.  My favorite things to make are cupcakes.  There is something perfect about a cupcake.  It's the perfect amount of cake and frosting and cupcakes are so cute anyway.  I usually make out of the box cupcakes and rainbow cupcakes are my favorite.  They are so bright and cheerful and very cute! 

 

I have also used the same idea to make a Christmas cake with red and green food coloring and Candy Corn cupcakes which came out alright.

Candy Corn cupcakes

I made what was suppose to be candy corn striped cupcakes for Halloween. They didn't come out striped like I wanted but still pretty cute.

Rainbow Cupcakes

The other day on Twitter someone linked to spearmint baby's rainbow cupcakes and I knew I had to do this.  With a little help from the boy, that is.  He mostly helped with the mixing of the white cake.  I didn't let him get into the dyed batter.  So I used Pillsbury white cake mix with the egg white recipe as suggested and divided the batter into 6 colors: red (which came out pink), blue, green, orange, purple, and yellow. 

In the end, I didn't divide it evenly enough so when I went to make the layers I ran low on some colors.  I also failed to divide what I did have evenly among the cupcakes.  But that's okay!  While the ones from spearmint baby are very layered, mine ended up with sort of a tie-dyed look which was very cool.

in the pan

out of the pan, you can see through the liner

In the end half got topped with yellow and the other half with purple.  I iced them with a whipped cream frosting by Betty Crocker which was the perfect thing since the cupcakes were light and fluffy and so was the icing.  They went really fast and everyone liked how cute they were.