Cupcakes

Ingredients

• Servings: 2
• 1 (18.25 ounce) package white cake mix
• 1 cup water
• 1/3 cup vegetable oil
• 3 eggs
• 14 drops red food coloring, or as needed - divided
• 22 drops yellow food coloring, or as needed - divided
• 6 drops green food coloring, or as needed
• 2 cups prepared white frosting
• 12 pieces of yellow, orange, and white
• 12 pieces of brown, orange, and white

Recipe

Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 20 mins Ready Time: 55 mins


• preheat oven to 350 degrees f (175 degrees c). line 24 cupcake cups with paper liners.
• place cake mix in a bowl, and pour in water and vegetable oil; add 3 eggs. with electric mixer on low speed, beat the cake mix with water, oil, and eggs until thoroughly combined, about 2 minutes. pour half the cake mix into a second bowl; divide the remaining cake mix in half, and place into 2 separate small bowls.
• color the largest portion of the cake mix orange by mixing in 4 drops of red food coloring and 6 drops of yellow food coloring. into a second, smaller bowl of cake mix, mix in 10 drops of red food coloring, 12 drops of yellow food coloring, and 6 drops of green food coloring, to color that bowl brown. into the last remaining small bowl of cake mix, stir in 5 drops of yellow food coloring to color that bowl yellow.
• spoon yellow cake batter into the bottoms of 12 prepared cupcake cups, filling them about 1/3 full. spoon the brown batter into the bottoms of the remaining 12 prepared cupcake cups, filling them about 1/3 full. spoon orange cupcake mix over the yellow and brown layers, filling the cupcakes about 2/3 full. try not to jar or shake the filled cupcakes, to avoid mixing layers.
• carefully place cupcakes into the preheated oven, and bake until a toothpick inserted into the center of a cupcake comes out clean, 18 to 22 minutes. allow to cool.
• frost each cooled cupcake with the white frosting; place a piece of yellow, orange, and white on top of each yellow and orange cupcake. place a brown, orange, and white piece of on top of each brown and orange cupcake.