Puking rainbow

Another attempt at baking again, and this time I'm going with more colors.
From the previous traffic light cupcake/cake in a jar, I decided to go with 3 more layers. And finally I got my blue dye. Like super happy that Shermin bought it for me, after my pathetic attempt at finding it at Fairprice and Giant.

This baking session is going full scale as my friend would be joining me as well, and she is going to bake 15 cups of puking rainbow while I'm baking a dozen. With that in mind, I decide to cheat a little and rely on cake mix to get the work done faster, as well to know that it would be easier to get my proportions right for the total amount we plan on baking.

Three packets of cake mix bought just for this session. And I was still worried if it won't be enough. But my next attempt (I know again, omg right, so much cupcake) will be purely from mixing the flour, egg, milk and food stuffs. No more cake mix.

My pretty food coloring waiting to be used.

We gradually add in the ingredients into the mixture until they are well-mixed before they were divided equally (I tried to be as equal as possible!) into six bowls.

Once they are divided, that's when the coloring fun begins.
And it's seriously fun to see how bright or how much coloring you want to add to each bowl.
The purple at the beginning we had a little trouble and it turned slightly grey (horrified face) and after adding more red, it eventually turn to the right shade of purple. Thank goodness.
It's like a mixture of pastel colors!

I learned from past experience that it's a super tedious job to slowly scoop the mixture into the cupcake tray bit by bit. Super time wasting and you really got to have the patience for it.
Instead of repeating the mistake, now I rely on using plastic bag to get the job done faster, easier and cleaner.
Just pour the mixture all into individual plastic bag, and please remember to tie a knot at the end.
And once ready, snip off one end of the plastic bag, and of a right size to get the piping started.

After two layers... One third done.

The whole time, the color mixing just reminds me of sand art.
The kind where you just put sands of different colors into a bottle, and at the top, you plant a cactus. 

My pretty color layers before they are ready to be placed into the oven.
Super excited about how the color will turn out, and how pretty they would be.

But I got kind of too ambitious and decided to all into the oven at once, to save time on doing two batches.
So that's how overflowing my oven became.
And as mentioned in the previous baking post, it is important that when baking in a jar, to place them in a water bath, to ensure that the bottom part doesn't get burnt.
But my worst mistake as well.
At the top, my muffin got cooked too fast, and I wasn't watching them carefully and unfortunately, they got BURNT.
My heart just broke.
Couldn't bear to take any pictures of the burnt top, but even with cutting off the burnt part, my puking rainbow cupcake got reduced by two layers.
Really disappointed with myself for not looking at the oven regularly and taking note when my puking rainbow are ready to be puked at.

So that's kind of how it looked like after I slashed the top off. Not quite a pretty sight.

The 'rejects'. But least they weren't immediately deemed as inedible and be thrown away. Thank goodness.
Mummy to the rescue and helped me to cut off the top burnt part, so that the rest can be eaten as snacks instead.

When all things doesn't go well, quickly cover it with cream cheese frosting instead!
The rare times where you are grateful for frosting and rainbow sprinkles to take the attention away. But then at that moment, I was determined to not give away my baking. Like I don't think I would be happy giving someone my baking that isn't my best. But unfortunately that mean my family members have to eat a dozen cupcakes instead.

The rare perfect one! Must treasure it.

As for the cup ones, they turn out pretty.
From the top view, it's super pretty how the layers turn out. Reminds me of a science experiment.
Once they were out of the oven, I placed them in a water bath as well to cool them down fast.
Had to wait at least 20 minutes before I decide that they were cool down enough to put the frosting on top.
Main reason is that if you do the frosting straight after they are out of the oven, the frosting would literally 'melt' on them instead because of the heat. And we do not want that to happen at all.

Meow. Random picture of my failed cupcakes.
Can roughly see the purple, blue, green and orange. A little bit of yellow, but no red.
Okay, that's the only picture I shall post of my puking rainbow.

I like the puking rainbow in the cup instead. Much prettier and the layers are easier seen.

Puking rainbow recipe:
I used 3 packets of Betty Crocker super moist cake mix
9 eggs
1.5 cups of oil
1.5 cups of water
Red, Blue, Yellow, Green coloring

For the frosting:
1.5 container of philadelphia cream cheese
1 cup icing sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
Rainbow sprinkles

Until my next baking adventure... till then it's the start of a new week, and it's my last week of first term! Time sure pass very fast when you lease expect it. So next week it's my study week, probably going to bake when I'm bored from studying. And run in the morning to kill the calories.