How to make Rainbow Kirby Cupcakes

How to make Rainbow Kirby Cupcakes

I recently saw this tutorial by Youtube user Fondasaurusrex on how to make rainbow cupcakes.  Naturally, I wanted to put a video game theme to them, so I decided to make them Kirby cupcakes, because he’s so darn cute!  Here’s how I made them.  Enjoy!

What you’ll Need

-         White cake mix and the ingredients listed on the package

-         Food coloring

-         Black icing

-         Pink icing

-         White icing

-         7 bowls or disposable cups

-         7 disposable spoons

-         Cupcake tin

-         Cupcake liners

-         Piping bag (unless your icing comes with nibs)

Steps

 1.  Make the cake mix and set the oven according to package directions.

2.  Ladle the mix equally into the 7 bowls.

  

3.  Mix the food coloring into the bowls.  Continue mixing colours until you get all the colors of the rainbow.  I have purple, blue, green, yellow, orange, pink, and reddish pink.

A cautionary note:  my cupcake tins were too small for the amount of colours I made.  I ended up splitting my cupcakes into two: one batch had purple, blue, green and pink, the other had yellow, orange and pink.  I'd recommend using a large cupcake tin if you want all the colors.

4.  Line your baking tin with the liners and start layering the colored batter.  Start with purple.  Continue adding the colors one by one until you read the top (reddish pink).

 5.  Place the cupcakes in the oven for the directed amount of time.  When they’re done, let them cool completely.

 6.  Since most of mine came out cracked, I decided to ice the top to smooth them out before I added the Kirby faces.  To do this, take some white frosting and add a little red food coloring.  Then, frost over top of the cupcakes.

 7. Decorate the faces with the black and pink icing

 8. Give them to your friends and enjoy!

How to make a Rice Krispies Raving Rabbid

 Mon received this cool Raving Rabbids mold about a year ago, and we only got around to using it now.  Doesn’t the final product look great?  Many thanks to Mon and Nakubu for making these sugary treats!

Rayman's Raving Rabbid Rice Krispies Dessert

Nakubu, Mon and I wanted to originally make these the day of the 1upcakes, but ran out of time. They went ahead and made them without me (cry) but kept the pictures for me to share!  Here’s the how-to!

You will need:

Recognize the picture? It’s from the 1upcakes tutorial. We were a bit too ambitious that day.

-         Rice Krispies Cereal

-         Marshmallows

-         Butter

-         White Icing

-         Pink Icing

-         Red Icing

-         Black icing

-         Raving Rabbids silicone mold

Steps:

 1.  Make the Rice Krispies Squares by following the direction on the cereal box.

2.  Quickly fill the mold with the warm Rice Krispy mix.

3.  Freeze or cool the mold in the freezer/fridge (this was done 3 separate times for the 3 rabbids).

4.  Remove the Rabbids from the fridge and place on a flat surface for decorating.

Video game inspired food is always tasty =)

5.  Spread white icing over the Rice Krispies Rabbids.

+1 icing skills for Nakubu.  And yes, "yummy" is intentionally misspelled for dramatic effect.

I call this pre-decorated one "Melty Face"

6.  Decorate with the red, black, and pink according to the desired Rabbid look.

Don't forget to scream "DAAAAAH!!!" before you eat them!

The End!

Mon's 1upcake Cupcakes Tutorial

Featuring Mon, Sharmycakes, and Nakubu

The 1upcake (pronounced one-UP-cake) is a cupcake fashioned to look like a Mario brothers 1up mushroom. Iconic in its vibrant green coloration and its power to grant the player an extra life, the 1up mushroom is perhaps the most coveted of all mushrooms.  Here’s a recipe to make your cupcake, or 1upcake, the most coveted of all baked goods. 

YOU WILL NEED

The X-ed out ingredients are for a future project...

Cupcake mix (read box for required ingredients and baking tools)

White frosting

Green icing

White icing

Black icing

Icing tube nibs

Cupcake tin

Cupcake baking cups

STEPS

1. Prepare the cupcakes according to the package instructions

Before the apron

After the apron

2. Let the cupcakes cool fully
3. Once they are completely cool, apply frosting as smooth and flat as possible

Make sure they're cold or the icing will melt!

4. Place the frosted cupcakes in the freezer for 15 minutes
5. Once the cupcakes are cold, take them out of the freezer and prepare your icing tubes with the appropriate nib



Mon = Awesome

6. Fill in the green section of the 1up first

7. Fill in the white second
8. Outline the black third

Close-up of Mon's 1upcake

9. Continue until you can no longer feel your fingers

The ghetto ones are mine.

10. Eat until you reach 1up status

OM NOM NOM

The End!