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Tie Dye Cupcakes

by - May 14, 2012

Pinterest is my new obsession. There are so many awesome ideas on there. I have done a few "projects" I have seen on Pinterest this week and here is my first one.



I had planned to make a rainbow cake to practice for Ace's birthday. We are having my cousin's Mom make a really awesome rainbow cake for him but I figured I would see if I could make one and if so I would make his smash cake picture ones or his birthday one and have her make the other one. Well, the directions said to get 2 boxes of cake in order to make this. I figured since I was mostly just doing this to see how the colors turned out I would just get 1 box and make a cake. That didn't quite work. I didn't have enough of each color to fill the cake round cake pan so I ended up making tie dye cupcakes instead. They ended up looking pretty cool if I do say so myself. So here is what I did.
What you need
1. WHITE cake mix. Must be white for the colors to really show.
-3 eggs
-1/2 cup vegetable oil
-1 cup water
2. GEL food coloring. Again make sue fit is the gel food coloring so the colors are really vibrant.
3. Icing. I used Pillsbury East Frost, cream cheese flavor.
3. Cupcake pan
4. Mixing bowl
5. Mixer
6. PAM



Instructions
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. Add cake mix, eggs, oil and water into your mixing bow and mix the ingredients together.
3. Measure out just under 1 cup of batter in a bowl. Do this 5 times.
4. Take your gel food coloring and color each bowl of batter a different color. My gel food coloring only came with 4 colors so I made purple as my extra color. This took 4 drops of red and 3 drops of blue.
5. Spray cupcake pan.
6. Now go through and spoon in a tablespoon of your first color. Doesn't matter what color it is. You can mix up your order for each one.
7. Next spoon in your second color over top of the first one. Do not mix the colors just spoon it in over the top and don't worry if it looks sloppy. Do this one more time so that you have 3 layer of colors.
8. Place cupcake pan in coven for 20 minutes.
9. Let cupcakes cool and then remove from pan. I did not use cupcake wrappers because I wanted to see what the colors looked like on the sides. I did put them in the wrappers after they had cooled though.
10. Top with icing.
11. EAT!







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3 comments

  1. I found your blog because of a giveaway and I am so glad! These are so cute! I love these, can't wait to try them.. I think our youth group would love them too! :)
    Jess

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    1. Glad you liked the idea. They are super easy and turn out really cute.

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  2. these came out sooo cute!! I'd love to try this! Not too hard or too messy, either!!

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