It is a gloomy, rainy, tornadoey kind of day.
We are having a mid-day movie picnic. Sometimes these days are just fun and much needed.
I chose Kung Foo Panda…Jack Black is so hilarious.
The other night I got home and saw this on our chalkboard.
I love Josh Kelley’s movie voting system…and his drawings. Can you guess the choices?
Last night I attempted rainbow velvet cupcakes. I made red velvet cupcakes for the first time on Valentines this year. I used Paula Dean’s Recipe but with my Mom’s cream cheese icing recipe. Mom’s icing recipe is like Paula’s except Mom used 2 tsp of vanilla, instead of just 1.
I always just assumed that an ingredient made red velvet cake red, but turns out it’s just food coloring, so why does Red Velvet Cake have to be red? Well, it doesn’t. I saw this pin on Pinterest and knew I needed to attempt it.
I made up my Red Velvet batter minus the food coloring. It was just this puke brown kind of color…totally not appealing at all.
I wanted all the colors of the rainbow…red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple.
I then divided out the puke brown batter into 6 different bowls.
Dyed each bowl of batter a different rainbow color. Since the batter was the not so great brownish color, my orange, yellow and green were not as bright as I wanted, but they still worked.
I added a little bit of each batter color to my muffin cups and baked.
I iced them with the cream cheese icing, added a few sprinkles and delivered some today as a sweet encouragement. The wee Kelleys and I are now enjoying one after our lunch.
Yes, today is definitely a rainbow cupcake kind of day.
Happy Wednesday!
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Love the cupcakes! I make a red velvet cheesecake, only I use purple food coloring. I tried red the first time but it turned an atrocious mauve color, so un-beautiful. Then I tried purple and voile’! Purple cheesecake goodness! Maybe next time I’ll try to make a rainbow cheesecake!
I love the rainbow cupcakes!! I want to make some right now!! But I would need your mom’s cream cheese icing recipe… 🙂 My son and I just shared one amazing cookies and cream cupcake from a bakery. It was …absolutely delicious and definitely not enough! So your rainbow cupcakes are making our mouths water.
What a fantastic idea! I have just started following your blog, after discovering you through Pinterest. Can’t wait to try these rainbow velvet cupcakes. I was eagerly waiting since yesterday to see what greatness you would create. Love rainy day movie days- we are having that type of day too. 🙂
Those looks really yummy. Red velvet has always been my favorite. Thanks for sharing.
Love the cupcakes. I’m going to have to make them soon! Thanks for sharing!
Awesome Cupcakes! Might have to try that soon 🙂
Those cupcakes are too cool for school. They are perfect for st. Patty’s day. And they coordinate with the photos of rainbow dri-fit tee’s underneath;)
I love the way the cupcakes turned out – so cute! As a little red velvet history (did I really just say that? I guess I like cake too much…), they’re red because the original recipe included beets to make them sweet giving them their red color. Nowadays it’s hard to find red velvet with actual beets in it (we have a local restaurant that does this and taught me the lesson). There’s my PSA for the day…
Also, I got all the movies except the bird one – what’s that?!
I LOVE the rainbow cupcakes!!!!! They are fabulous!
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