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Recipe: Mini Rainbow Cakes

April 17, 2014 · Narrative

A very simple, mini baked dessert in eye-catching rainbow colors.

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Over the years, we have made many rainbow desserts – our six layer Rainbow Cake, Rainbow Pancakes, Rainbow Colored Oreos, a Rainbow Sheet Cake… I’m sure there are others that I have missed. Now we can add Mini Rainbow Cakes to the list.

At first glance, these look like they could be really fiddly, but I have since learned a trick to make them anything but. In fact, they were so easy to make, Madeline actually made half of them herself. By separating the colored batter into six Ziploc bags, we can squeeze color dots into the pan to make the mini rainbows.

Life changing.

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We originally made these last month, to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day, but they could be made for a variety of other occasions as well … a rainbow-themed party for sure, but now that you know the trick to making the color separation easy, you don’t have to just stick with rainbow colors. Shades of blue or pinks to celebrate a baby shower. Pastel colors for a Spring fete. Red, white, and blue for the Fourth of July. The possibilities are endless.

As you can tell, I didn’t make actual doughnuts (no mini doughnut pan and no need for another item in my kitchen). Rather, I used a mini muffin tin for the baking … henceforth, mini cakes.

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Because the rules for bringing in baked goods for the kids’ schools are ridiculously strict (oh how I miss the days when we could just send in baked goods), we shared these with Madeline’s Girl Scout troop at our meeting. Those little six year old mouths demolished these in nothing flat. Two each even.

But I mean, really, can you blame them?

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Mini Rainbow Doughnuts
Recipe courtesy of Hoosier Homemade

Ingredients

1 box Yellow Cake Mix
2 Eggs
1/2 cup {1 stick} butter, softened
1 cup milk
Coloring – Violet, Royal Blue, Kelly Green, Lemon Yellow, Orange, and Red

Glaze
1 cup powdered sugar
2-3 tablespoons milk
1 teaspoon vanilla

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees, slightly spray doughnut pans
  2. In a large bowl, combine cake mix, eggs, butter and milk, mix well
  3. Divide equally into 6 separate bowls
  4. Add coloring to each batter and mix well to combine for even coloring
  5. Spoon batter into resealable bags and pipe a small amount into doughnut pan, fill about 1/2 way
  6. Bake minis for about 7 minutes and regular size doughnuts for about 10-12 minutes
  7. Serve with glaze if desired

Makes 36 mini doughnuts.

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Posted In: Narrative · Tagged: doughnuts, mini cake, rainbow dessert

Comments

  1. Joanne says

    April 18, 2014 at 6:40 am

    These are so cute! The ziploc bag method is genius.
    Joanne recently posted..Coconut Cake with Silk Meringue Buttercream

    Reply
  2. Carrie @ poet in the pantry says

    April 18, 2014 at 12:06 pm

    Love the Ziploc bag tip! These are so wonderfully bright and cheery!
    Carrie @ poet in the pantry recently posted..Cheeseburger Quesadilla Deluxe #client

    Reply
  3. Karen Petersen says

    April 22, 2014 at 12:02 am

    Oh my! My kids would LOVE these. How creative!

    Reply
  4. C.Y. says

    August 6, 2014 at 2:09 pm

    Hi, there!! I’m wanting to have a tie-dye cake for my daughter’s 1st birthday. Did you notice if the food coloring altered the taste of the cake? Thanks!!

    Reply

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It didn’t take much to get me to @mikespastasand It didn’t take much to get me to @mikespastasandwichshoppe when a friend texted me a screenshot of their cheese butter. Up until last week I had never even heard of cheese butter but just two days later, I’m driving an hour round trip to get some. 😂 I was never one to succumb to peer pressure (I didn’t have my first drink until I was 21!), but when it comes to food finds, I am very easily intrigued. After all, that’s how I’ve discovered some of my favorite bites over the years … lardo from @butlerandtheboard, a spicy Italian sausage, and my love of chicharron. If you haven’t visited Mike’s in Nutley, it’s worth a visit. While there, I also got a small tray of meatballs (a bargain at $10!) and a delicious mortadella sandwich that is worth a round trip. ✨
The long, dreary and grey months of the Winter nee The long, dreary and grey months of the Winter need a little bit of color, so here you go. 😍 Love this chest of drawers. Discovered it buried in a local shop and bought it specifically for the green color (one of my favorites). Vintage Coke crate was a $10 score from a garage sale place on Facebook some ten years ago. And the assorted markers in Roy G Biv order (natch) that aren’t used anymore because my kids have sadly left that phase. 🙃
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A friend was taking a trip to Ireland and asked if A friend was taking a trip to Ireland and asked if I wanted her to bring me back anything. Would you believe me if I told you I asked for salt? I love picking up different varieties, whether we’re traveling or I’m just visiting a new shop. Maddie grabbed me a super cute one from her trip to Paris last year, and the Magic Unicorn Salt I get locally is another favorite. What’s yours?
One of us hops like a bunny down the steps, has a One of us hops like a bunny down the steps, has a serious case of FOMO on the daily, gets hiccups more than anyone we know and has perpetual bed head. She’s quite the unique roommate but may be exactly what our home needed. 💛
I haven’t had a bagel in ages, but when I saw th I haven’t had a bagel in ages, but when I saw that @njdotcom had picked six bagel shops at the “best in the state,” and one was reasonably local, all the sudden I needed one. I was never one to fall prey to peer pressure, but I’m very definitely a marketer’s dream. 😂 Alfa Bagels is on Route 10 in Randolph and has a good assortment of bagels, including all the usual suspects, but with a few others like rainbow, Asiago and French Toast throw in for good measure. Their bagels always seem to have a nice chew, which I appreciate and I love their sesame one. My go-to order lately is a double toasted flagel with lox spread and tomato. Their lox spread is a little ho hum, but the bagel is delish. Check them out next time you’ve got a craving (or get motivated by a local news story 😝). What’s your bagel order?
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