cupcakes dressed as rainbows...for halloween...and much more...

so i needed a challenge for this year's Halloween cupcakes and what better challenge than to attempt 'rainbow cakes'...because let's face it...anyone who is insane enough to go to all that trouble of dividing up batter, adding food colouring, then spooning each colour patiently into each cup in layers...well it takes time, patience and a whole lotta love for rainbows. and thankfully i have all those ingredients...as well as the ones necessary for the cupcakes! i just used a regular vanilla cupcake recipe that i'm sure is lurking around my site somewhere and then i divided it up and added the food colours. easy to make but time consuming to complete...but so fun when they come out of the oven and you see rainbows baked into cakes and then you take a bite...and wow! you just feel sunshine and love oozing out of you. unfortunately the one in the photo was not the best specimen, the rest had to be divided up amongst party guests so this one was the 'extra' photo model that i made but unfortunately didn't have quite enough batter for...hence the uneven lopsidedness to it...!

these were made for a halloween party last night, and not just to celebrate halloween because every year halloween has a special meaning for me now, for not only is it my favourite celebration of the year, it is also the day exactly a year ago when i met a very special someone who has cascaded into my life with such grace and brought all the colours of the rainbow with him back into my days. and so these were made for halloween, for a one year anniversary and for love...

i would absolutely make these again, even with all the time it took because the look on people's faces as they bit into them was joy unrivalled in itself. they are just such happy little cakes and next time i might attempt a big cake if it's someone's birthday because i think the effect of the rainbow might just be a little more perfect in a big cake.