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Somewhere Over The Rainbow: Rainbow Cupcakes

By Lyndsay // Coco Cake Land

What a seriously beautiful song. Judy Garland singing it, only, from the amazing movie The Wizard of Oz! The song makes me think of hope and love and compassion, and making dreams come true. Pretty lovely!

Sweet Claire ordered from afar a delightful gift for her friends Tara and Elladee’s housewarming: rainbow cupcakes! These cupcakes are sheer magic — only when you bake that multi-colored batter in the oven, and hear the timer go off, and you peak into the oven do you get to see how the cupcakes decided to turn out! Blobs of neon colours make up these rainbow vanilla cupcakes, which I topped off with a swirl of pretty pink, blue and purple vanilla buttercream.

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  1. KT Cupcake

    August 5, 2010 at 1:46 am

    Gorgeous! I’m curious – what frosting tip did you use?

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  2. faithy, the baker

    August 5, 2010 at 2:49 am

    …way up high…there’s a land that I heard of
    once in a lullaby…

    I just drop by from Cake Wreck..thankfully you had this post so now my mind has been switched from her hilarious “What’s This” to this sweet ballad..lol!

    Love your rainbow cupcakes! I have yet to do swirls like that..do you use a star tip for make those gorgeous swirls!!

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  3. kim @ stellacake

    August 5, 2010 at 4:43 am

    yummers. rainbows taste good!

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  4. jan

    August 5, 2010 at 6:58 am

    i haven’t tasted a rainbow yet, but these look like they are probably pretty delicious!

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  5. Lyndsay // Coco Cake Land

    August 5, 2010 at 1:54 pm

    thanks KT! KT and Faithy, yes it’s a star tip to create the swirls!

    haha Faithy I heart Cake Wrecks too. so hilarious.

    Thanks Kim!

    thank you Jan!! :)

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  6. Lyndsay // Coco Cake Land

    August 5, 2010 at 2:04 pm

    Jan! Thank you for the “link love!” Yay Poppytalk!

    xo lyndsay

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  7. I BLEED PINK

    August 5, 2010 at 4:24 pm

    Oh, how wonderful!!!

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  8. Lulie

    August 5, 2010 at 5:53 pm

    Gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous1 You continue to inspire me with your creations. Actually, I want try to emulate you. Try, I said. I’m ok at smooshing on b/cream icing, but piping I want to learn. PLease can you let me know what tip you use to get this beautiful effect?
    Thanks from the UK!

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  9. Lulie

    August 5, 2010 at 5:55 pm

    Sorry, I dd read it’s a star tip but was wondering what size?
    Thx

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  10. Stefanie

    August 5, 2010 at 10:58 pm

    These are wonderful! How did you get the frosting colors to stay so separate? I have tried and they end up getting all mixed together!

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  11. gyoza*girl

    August 6, 2010 at 5:28 am

    swirly vivid colourful yummy coolness! :)

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  12. NINA

    August 6, 2010 at 7:31 am

    So much fun to eat!!!
    I left a little something for you in my Blog, would love it if you stopped by…

    Nina

    http://designsbynina.blogspot.com/

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  13. Brandy L

    August 6, 2010 at 2:47 pm

    WOW! These are amazing. I love the colors!

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  14. Catherine Holman

    August 6, 2010 at 3:14 pm

    These are absolutely beautiful!

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  15. Lyndsay // Coco Cake Land

    August 8, 2010 at 2:57 am

    thank you so much everyone… !!!

    @lullie, it’s a 1M tip!

    @Stefanie, i wonder if its the consistency of your frosting? Try making it “stiffer” and it will hold better together i bet! :)

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  16. Patricia Oro

    August 9, 2010 at 6:24 pm

    Love your rainbow cupcakes! I’m going to make them for my friend’s 40th birthday in couple of weeks. Where did you get the liners? Thanks!

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  17. Lori

    August 12, 2010 at 6:58 pm

    Wow, these cupcakes are beautiful! I love the frosting! So cool!

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  18. Lyndsay // Coco Cake Land

    August 26, 2010 at 3:29 am

    hi patricia! i buy all my liners in bulk (like, 1000 at a time) but there are some great resources online:

    http://www.bakeitpretty.com comes to mind, she is really cool!

    good luck with your rainbows!!!

    thanks lori! :)

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