How many cupcakes make a rainbow cupcake?

You’ll need approximately 4 dozen cupcakes for this rainbow pull-apart cake. Of course, the size can be adapted based on your needs. Bake the cupcakes in any flavor you like. You can use one of my favorite cake recipes, one of these popular recipes, or any recipe that you love.

How does rainbow cake taste like?

What does Rainbow cake taste like? This Rainbow cake has a mild vanilla and cream cheese flavour due to the vanilla layers that are sandwiched together with cream cheese frosting.

How many layers do you need for a unicorn cake?

Frosting your rainbow cake You will need approximately 6 to 6 ½ cups of white frosting to frost just the basic white all over the six layers of cake. Since I had to pipe the unicorn mane all over the cake with additional dyed frosting, I made homemade buttercream. Homemade buttercream pipes better than canned frosting.

What is a pull apart cupcake cake?

5 Pull-Apart Cupcake Cakes These cakes are made by arranging batches of cupcakes into a unique shape before frosting and decorating all of them at the same time. The best part about these pull-apart cupcake cakes is that they don’t need to be cut, making them a perfect grab-and-go treat.

How do you make rainbow icing for cupcakes?

Piping one color at a time, pipe a 1-inch thick stripe of frosting. Repeat process immediately next to the first color with next color. Repeat with remaining colors until a rainbow has been piped. Carefully pull up on plastic wrap to roll frosting over onto each other, creating a large log of frosting.

How do I make my rainbow cake look vibrant?

You also can throw off the consistency of the vanilla cake batter if you add too much liquid food coloring. I highly recommend using gel food coloring. Gel food coloring is incredibly concentrated, so it allows you to use less. A couple drops will create beautiful, bright colors.

Will Smarties bleed into icing?

The Smarties Let your buttercream covered cake sit for a couple of hours on the counter till the buttercream starts drying. You don’t want it completely dry and crusted, just a little bit. Enough so the Smarties won’t bleed into it, but still sticky enough that they actually stick to the cake.