I Googled “St Patrick’s Day Cupcakes” for some ideas. I found green velvet cupcakes, but since I turned everyone’s mouth blue with my blue velvet cupcakes in December, those were out. So I went for rainbow cupcakes with a twist. I decided to make the rainbow with my frosting, and my cupcake would be the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow!
To make the pot of gold cupcakes, I used my darn good chocolate cake recipe for the “pot”, and a yellow cake batter for the “gold”. I basically spooned some chocolate batter into the cupcake liner and formed a little bowl for the yellow batter. (Fortunately the chocolate batter was thick so this worked well. I wish I could have taken pictures of this step, but it was pretty messy!) I was pleased with the way they turned out, especially since I was basically winging it. Some of the pots were overflowing with gold!
I originally wanted to do a rainbow swirl frosting to top the cupcakes, but having never made swirls before, I wussed out because I was out of milk and couldn’t remake the frosting in case I messed up. Instead I just piped little rainbows on the cupcakes, which turned out cute!
Since I couldn’t fit all the rainbow colors on the cupcakes, I played around with the green and yellow frostings to attempt a swirl. I piped the swirl onto some cupcakes that I made with extra yellow batter that I dyed green. Pretty!
YUM!
Until next time, an Irish blessing:
Wishing you a rainbow
For sunlight after showers—
Miles and miles of Irish smiles
For golden happy hours—
Shamrocks at your doorway
For luck and laughter too,
And a host of friends that never ends
Each day your whole life through!
Peace, love and cupcakes,
Amanda
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