Rainbow Cupcakes With Buttercream Frosting – Easy Frosted Swirled Cupcakes – Party Food – Desserts
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Rainbow Cupcakes With Buttercream Frosting
Need a delicious cupcake recipe? Try these amazing rainbow cupcakes – so YUMMY!
Simple homemade rainbow cupcakes recipe that will please any crowd.
Easy from cupcake mix with homemade buttercream frosting.
Swirled colorful cupcakes decorated with frosting and sprinkles.
Great for kids birthday parties, Summer pool parties, classroom parties and more.
Make for fun snacks or desserts that kids will love.
Get ready to bake up the best buttercream rainbow cupcakes.
How To Make Rainbow Cupcakes With Buttercream Frosting
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray or line a standard muffin tin.
Add cake mix to a large mixing bowl.
Using a hand or stand mixer, mix in your water, oil, and eggs on medium until well incorporated.
Mix in the ricotta cheese.
Evenly separate the batter into 6 containers and color each with the 6 food colors until desired color of each is achieved.
Add a small spoonful of each color of the batter into the muffin tin until each is about 2/3 full.
Bake for 18-20 minutes, or until a toothpick comes out clean. Allow to cool completely before frosting.
In a large mixing bowl or stand mixer, cream the butter, and beat until light and fluffy. Add in the vanilla extract.
Slowly mix in the powdered sugar, 1 cup at a time, while adding a bit of the half and half or milk in between each cup. Continue to mix for 1 minute or until creamy.
Add in your marshmallow flavoring.
Prepare piping bag and fill bag with frosting. Frost your cupcakes and top each cupcake with the rainbow sprinkles.
Redorange, yellow, green, blue, and purple gel food coloring
Frosting Ingredients
1 1/2sticks salted buttersoftened
1teaspoonvanilla
4cupspowdered sugar
1tablespoonhalf and half or whole milk
Lorann marshmallow flavored syrupFind it on Amazon
1large piping bag1 large round frosting tip
Rainbow colored sprinkles (Find them on Amazon
Instructions
Directions for Cupcakes:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray or line a standard muffin tin.
Add cake mix to a large mixing bowl. Using a hand or stand mixer, mix in your water, oil, and eggs on medium until well incorporated. Mix in the ricotta cheese.
Evenly separate the batter into 6 containers and color each with the 6 food colors until desired color of each is achieved.
Add a small spoonful of each color of the batter into the muffin tin until each is about 2/3 full. Bake for 18-20 minutes, or until a toothpick comes out clean. Allow to cool completely before frosting.
Directions for Frosting:
In a large mixing bowl or stand mixer, cream the butter, and beat until light and fluffy. Add in the vanilla extract.
Slowly mix in the powdered sugar, 1 cup at a time, while adding a bit of the half and half or milk in between each cup. Continue to mix for 1 minute or until creamy. Add in your marshmallow flavoring.
Prepare piping bag and fill bag with frosting. Frost your cupcakes and top each cupcake with the rainbow sprinkles. Enjoy!
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