This pretty little picture has gone viral. I found lots of links to the image and not many folks who actually made them. Obviously, cupcakes and blue icing are simple enough. My concern was candy manipulation. Airhead sour belts are very soft and floppy. I wanted to make sure my rainbows arched. This was my only cupcake option other than plain pink or blue frosting. We have a book called Minnie's Rainbow Picnic it had to be these.
After Mike and I experimented for a week (baking, refrigerating, etc) we decided most of our candy manipulation was a fail. When today (baking day) came I just opened a package of candy and mixed up some cupcakes. Roo requested "ba-nill-wa" so we did "Classic White" mix. I also got the same frosting, we have a little friend with a sensitivity to red 40, and colored it myself.
Riley picked the polka dot cupcake papers. I baked 36 vanilla cupcakes and then added a few drops of blue food coloring to the white frosting to get a pretty sky blue. I intended to use the left over white to make clouds.
When push came to shove decorating I only did the sky blue. I used the slightly harder candy belts (that had been open to the air through the baking process). I just made deep parallel slits with a butter knife for rainbow support. I plunged those buggers right in there and that was the end of it.
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