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Inspired by friends posting their awesome pictures of beautiful rainbow cakes, [livejournal.com profile] hnix and I were determined to give it a try. This was an A++ life choice :D

The mixture was actually coconut cupcakes, which was very tasty, but did make for an interesting texture with the colour in it. For the record, [livejournal.com profile] hnix is a freak who doesn't like tasting raw cake mix - which is the best part of cooking!!!


It was harder than we thought to get the mix into the cases in an appropriate combination.


And they were the coneheads of the cupcake world!




But turned out pretty damn awesome nonetheless :)


We made up some lovely coloured coconut to use in decoration (and then didn't use it much, heh)


Decided the delicious white chocolate cream cheese icing wasn't going to sit well on the pointy tops, so cut them off.




Then sprinkled some coconut on and stuck the tops back on, upside down (mismatched to the cakes) because they were too pretty to waste.


We got some really lovely patterns - cutting them open was so exciting!






We had way too much icing, and because we were on a total sugar high by this point, it made sense to throw the coconut into the icing and see what happened.


Unfortunately, it was this.


A far superior use of my time than watching NSW play abysmally and lose to the Bulls, which was how I spent the evening *sigh*. I fed cupcakes to the family in the car afterwards, to cheer them up.

Date: 2009-04-11 01:27 pm (UTC)
sperrywink: (Default)
From: [personal profile] sperrywink
Beautiful cupcakes! They look yummy.

Date: 2009-04-11 01:30 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] erilyn.livejournal.com
Thank you! They were delicious as well as delightfully multicoloured :D

Date: 2009-04-11 01:34 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] turps33.livejournal.com
They look delicious!

Date: 2009-04-11 10:06 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] erilyn.livejournal.com
I wish I could upload them for people to try :)

Date: 2009-04-11 02:04 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] proteinscollide.livejournal.com
Wow, they look chaotic and awesome. And yummy! :)

Date: 2009-04-11 10:08 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] erilyn.livejournal.com
Rainbow cakes are officially the best thing EVER :)

Date: 2009-04-11 02:12 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jocondite.livejournal.com
Those cupcakes are absolutely loldorable. A++++

Date: 2009-04-11 10:14 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] erilyn.livejournal.com
they are so much fun to make, I can't recommend this highly enough :)

Date: 2009-04-11 02:20 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] drunktuesdays.livejournal.com
:DDDD YAY RAINBOW THINGS!!!

Date: 2009-04-11 10:28 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] erilyn.livejournal.com
you totally bear some of the responsiblity for us making these, so thank you :D

Date: 2009-04-11 03:31 pm (UTC)

Date: 2009-04-11 10:30 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] erilyn.livejournal.com
Rainbow cupcakes are magic and amazing :D

Date: 2009-04-11 04:06 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] shihadchick.livejournal.com
Those cupcakes look DELIGHTFUL. ...and now I want caaaaaaaaaaake.

Date: 2009-04-11 10:49 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] erilyn.livejournal.com
They are amaaaaaaaazing :D

Date: 2009-04-11 05:14 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] strobelighted.livejournal.com
THEY LOOK SO DELICIOUS *______________*

Date: 2009-04-11 10:49 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] erilyn.livejournal.com
THEY ARE! And I still have two in the fridge >:)

Date: 2009-04-11 06:40 pm (UTC)
turlough: castle on mountain top in winter, Burg Hohenzollern (CAKE!)
From: [personal profile] turlough
Awesome cakes!!

Date: 2009-04-11 10:52 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] erilyn.livejournal.com
I love them so much :D

Date: 2009-04-11 08:16 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] chrismm.livejournal.com
Those are beautiful! Lots of times rainbow cakes end up sort of muddy colored, but those are lovely and bright and yummy-looking!

And actually, that last frosting/icing shot is kind of pretty, in a pastel kind of way. It looks like the confetti icing my nieces love (um,here).

Which their dad (my BiL) told them was discontinued for years and years. I got in trouble for finding some, a couple years ago. :D I thought he was really looking for it and sad that it was discontinued, and not that he thought it was horrible and was tired of putting it on cakes twice a year, so he was lying to them. Heh.

Date: 2009-04-11 10:35 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] erilyn.livejournal.com
It looked like half-melted icecream when you've mixed sprinkles into it to me :) Your poor poor brother-in-law, heh.

They worked better than I was afraid they might :D

Date: 2009-04-11 09:34 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jezzabe.livejournal.com
oh, those are so awesome! i approve so hard.

Date: 2009-04-11 10:52 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] erilyn.livejournal.com
They are delicious AND beautiful :D

Date: 2009-04-12 03:19 am (UTC)

Date: 2009-04-12 08:49 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] erilyn.livejournal.com
I am ridiculously in love with making rainbow cakes now :D

Date: 2009-04-13 03:11 am (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] meelie.livejournal.com
YUM! they look awesome!

Date: 2009-04-13 12:54 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] iibnf.livejournal.com
FYI since I mentioned you:
http://tapedeck.livejournal.com/579756.html?thread=3966124#t3966124

And since you didn't invite me to cupcakes, I'm going to flounce. FLOUNCE LIKE A FLAMINGO!

They are really good eye liners, btw.

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