These rainbow swirl cupcakes turned out just like I had imagined! I have girly-girls and they love all things pink, purple and yellow. With a little upfront work on the icing preparation these cupcakes come together much easier than you think. The kids go crazy for the added color. One of my favorite things about this is that no two cupcakes are the same. Some have more purple or yellow or pink but they look great together or by themselves on a plate!
If you want to try out your own rainbow swirl icing here are the steps that I took.
- Make a batch of your favorite icing and your favorite cupcakes
- Divide the icing into bowls for the desired number of finished colors. 2-3 colors work best. If you add more than 3 colors they tend to get too mixed up and you loose the desired impact. Choose colors that are vibrant and contrasting from one another. Opposite colors on the color wheel are a good place to start.
- Add gel food colors and stir to completely mix
- Insert star tip into piping bag.
- With a spatula place first icing color bag leaving space for other colors. The picture below is a visual of the piping bag filled with the 3 icing colors. Notice how the colors start to merge together-that’s OK it helps the colors mix together.
- Add additional colors on top.
- These colors will merge together but that helps create the swirl
- Pipe icing in swirls on cupcake
I hope you will try this out. I’d love to see some new combinations and how they turned out!
Rainbow Swirl Cupcake Icing
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Turn your favorite icing into a masterpiece with a few added steps
Author: The Daily Dabble
Recipe type: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Serves: 12
Ingredients
- Your favorite icing-needs to be thick enough to pipe (American buttercream is perfect)
- 2-3 gel food colors
- Favorite piping tip (I used a large star tip)
- Piping bag
Instructions
- Make a batch of your favorite icing
- Divide the icing into bowls for the desired number of finished colors (2-3 works best)
- Add gel food colors and stir to completely mix
- Insert start tip into piping bag.
- With a spatula place first icing color bag leaving space for other colors
- Add additional colors on top.
- These colors will merge together but that helps create the swirl
- Pipe icing in swirls on cupcake
[…] These cupcakes are perfect with a vanilla glaze, a swiss meringue buttercream or your favorite whipped american buttercream. For kids parties I top these with my favorite whipped american buttercream (as seen in the recent rainbow swirl cupcakes). […]