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rainbow sky cupcakes

phoenixmaine75 avatar
Recipe by
Melanie Ross
@phoenixmaine75
Rumford, ME

I've made these quite a few times and get excited over the results every time. Sometimes, I think I get more excited than my family!!!

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yield 24 serving(s)
prep time 30 Min
cook time 1 Hr 35 Min
method Bake

Ingredients For rainbow sky cupcakes

  • 1 box
    betty crocker supermoist party rainbow chip cake mix
  • water, vegetable oil and eggs called for on cake mix box
  • 2
    containers betty crocker whipped fluffy white frosting
  • 1/8 tsp
    blue paste food coloring
  • 12
    bars (0.55 oz. each "airheads xtremes") rainbow berry taffy candy, unwrapped, cut crosswise in half
  • 2 c
    miniature marshmallows

How To Make rainbow sky cupcakes

  • 1
    Heat oven to 350. Place paper baking cup in each of 24 regular-size muffin cups.
  • 2
    Make and bake cake mix as directed on box for cupcakes, using water, oil and eggs. Cool 10 minutes; remove from pans to cooking racks. Cool completely.
  • 3
    In medium bowl, mix 1 container frosting with food color. Gently swirl in remaining container of frosting. Frost cupcakes to look like sky.
  • 4
    Insert each end of 1 taffy candy piece into frosting on each cupcake to look like a rainbow. Place marshmallows at each end of "rainbow" for "clouds".
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