sugarrainbow

A little while ago, I saw a very promising photo of rainbow cupcakes, made for St. Patrick's Day. As I've already baked a rainbow cake, I said to myself: "How hard can it be?" And the answer is: not hard at all. 

Because the recipe for the cake worked out so well, I decided to use it again. The procedure is more or less the same: deviding the batter into six parts, mixing it with the food colouring and then filling it into the muffin pan. (Later, I realized that the batter for a round spring-clip tin is a bit too much for just 12 cupcakes, but that wasn't a problem: more batter means more cupcakes!)

The cream I chose for the top was a simple cream cheese mixture from Julie Schwobs "Yes We Cook". It is sweet, fresh and doesn't distract from the marzipan taste of the muffins. At first, I thought it would be a challenge to find little rainbows for decorating the cupcakes, but then I stumbled upon these slightly sour, colourful sweets in our supermarket.  

 

 

somewhere at the end of the rainbow

So, I'm trying to think about a subject I could write about. It couldn't be more obvious, but it took me some time to remember that I spent a lot of time between learning and knitting in the kitchen.
So, let's start with one of my recent baking experiments I made for a friend's birthday:

Yes, I'm also on Instagram. Just search for fraeulein_k :) 

As it is plain to see, it's a rainbow cake!
I found this very helpful recipe on the internet, but it's in German. I also found one on Brown Eyed Baker, but I can't guarantee that it works out. Mainly, baking a rainbow cake is about dividing the dough into six parts and dye them with food colouring.

This is in fact the costliest part of making the cake. But all in all it wasn't as complicated as I thought it was.

And the result is quite nice:

 

After testing Thomas Langens recipe, I think about putting marzipan in every cake I bake. It's just so delicious!