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!

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You get 10 points for finding the hidden messages.

Co-drawn with boyfriend at a co-ed bridal shower.

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Look who's back from summer vacation!

After a nice long summer of rediscovering the magic of Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers), my boyfriend and I decided to try to learn and acapella "Da Mystery of Chessboxin.'"  Though we've probably listened to the track 50 times in the last month (and countless times in our youth), we still can't get the lyrics straight.  I like to imagine that he'll get over his stage fright and actually rap this song with me one day at hip hop karaoke. 

So, here I go with my ghetto drawing memorization technique.  This will definitely help us get through our upcoming road trip to Toronto!

So the first few lines are easy enough.  They're:

RAW, I'mma give it to ya,
With no trivia,
Raw like cocaine straight from Bolivia.
My hip hop will rock and shock the nation
Like the Emancipation Proclamation.

And this is where it gets tricky for us, hence the DRAWINGS!  Enjoy if any of you are reading this! 

More to come soon-ish, as it's bedtime for Sharmycakes! zzzzzzz

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!

How to make a Jigglypuff Bento

I recently got a request to make a Jigglypuff bento (thanks, Heather, for the great idea!).  Here’s my second bento, made with the leftovers from my Kirby bento.

For Heather: a Jigglypuff bento!

 

The concept of the bento was inspired by the video game Super Smash Bros.  I also riffed on the themes of “before and after” the honeymoon phase of a relationship, or it can represent the thin line between love and hate, or loosely on the theme of “friendly competition.”  Something’s telling me that you’re probably thinking that I’m getting too “English Literature Teacher-ish” and that I should end my paragraph right about…now.

If you’d like to know how I made this or if you’d like to replicate it, here’s the tutorial!

What you'll need:

-       A bento box (or Tupperware-type container)

-       Scissors

-       Cookie cutters

-       Toothpicks

-       Nori

-       Cheese (I used 2 kinds: white cheddar and American)

-       Lettuce

-       Ham (I also used salami inside the sandwich for variety)

-       Mayonnaise

-       Hot sauce (or ketchup)

-       Mustard

 How to make Jigglypuff:

Jigglypuff and Kirby are basically circular ham and cheese sandwiches.  I placed ham over top and stylized it to look like the desired characters. The Jigglypuff is my design, and the Kirby is Anna the Red’s creation (for Kirby, follow this link, or go to Anna the Red’s blog).  Here's how to make Jigglypuff.

1.  Cut pieces of nori into the desired shapes.

2. Use a circular cookie-cutter to cut pieces of toast.  I used 2 large pieces of toast to make 4 slices (which makes 2 Jigglypuff/Kirbys). 

3. Cut 2 slices of cheese with the circular cutter. This goes in the sandwich.

4. Use a smaller circle cutter (or the top of a heart-shaped cutter, as I did since I don't have a smaller circular cutter) to cut Jigglypuff's arms.

5. Cut several slices of ham with the circular cutter (depending on how much ham you like). Cut Jigglypuff’s arms and ears (and Kirby’s arms) as well.

6. Spread mayo and mustard onto the slices of bread.

7. Add the cheese and ham.  Save the top slices of ham for Jigglypuff and Kirby’s face/body (you’ll need 4 for each mini sandwich).

8. Place the remaining slices of ham on top of the sandwich.

9. Slide Jigglypuff's ham "limbs" in the desired locations.  Use cheese for Jigglypuff’s legs.

10. Cut circular pieces of cheese for the whites of Jigglypuff’s eyes and place accordingly.

11. Cut lettuce for the eyeballs (heart-shaped for the “love” look, and circular for the “angry” look).

Kirby is pretty much the same thing.  The only differences are that I applied mayo with a toothpick to make the twinkle in his eyes, and several dabs of hot sauce on the ham to make his rosy cheeks.

Final product: WIN!

Ta-da!