{"id":5783,"date":"2011-07-08T15:21:24","date_gmt":"2011-07-08T20:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=5783"},"modified":"2011-07-08T15:22:15","modified_gmt":"2011-07-08T20:22:15","slug":"friday-family-fun-rainbow-cupcakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2011\/07\/08\/friday-family-fun-rainbow-cupcakes\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Family Fun: Rainbow cupcakes"},"content":{"rendered":"

F<\/span>or this third installment of my summertime Friday Family Fun series, after suggesting some places to get out and visit around the national capital, I thought I’d post a suggestion for a fun kid activity that you can do whether you live in Ottawa or anywhere else. We did this last weekend and the boys loved it!<\/p>\n

\"Cupcakes<\/a><\/p>\n

You can start with cupcakes from scratch if you have that kind of talent, but we went with a box mix for plain vanilla cupcakes cuz that’s how we roll. However you start out, you should end up with a big bowl of cake batter. Separate that into as many bowls as you want colours — we went with four: red, green, yellow and blue. Add enough food colouring to each bowl of batter so you get a nice, rich hue.<\/p>\n

\"Cupcakes<\/a><\/p>\n

We made cupcakes, but the first time I saw this was on Amy’s blog<\/a>, where she did a whole cake this way. I personally like the cupcake thing — I like my activities and my snacks bite-sized! Put a spoonful or two of each colour into a cupcake sleeve, and keep dripping layers of colour in until the batter fills the cup.<\/p>\n

\"Cupcakes<\/a><\/p>\n

As you can see, there’s not a lot of precision in our methodology. I’m learning to watch more and control less. It’s not always easy!<\/p>\n

\"Cupcakes<\/a><\/p>\n

When you bake them, they end up like this.<\/p>\n

\"Cupcakes<\/a><\/p>\n

As if fresh-baked cupcakes didn’t look delicious enough without the rainbow effect! And then, we added some frosting. Daddy dug out some star sprinkles to add just a bit more whimsey to the final product.<\/p>\n

\"Cupcakes<\/a><\/p>\n

Some of ours ended up half yellow and half blue, or mostly green with a touch of pink, but a few actually ended up like I had intended, looking something like this:<\/p>\n

\"Cupcakes<\/a><\/p>\n

Of course, this was the best part!<\/p>\n

\"Cupcakes<\/a><\/p>\n

If you’re looking for a fun rainy-day activity this summer vacation, consider rainbow cupcakes. So easy that even we could do them, so I’m sure just about anybody could!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For this third installment of my summertime Friday Family Fun series, after suggesting some places to get out and visit around the national capital, I thought I’d post a suggestion for a fun kid activity that you can do whether you live in Ottawa or anywhere else. We did this last weekend and the boys … Continue reading “Friday Family Fun: Rainbow cupcakes”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun-for-kiddies","category-ottawa-family-fun"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5783"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5785,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5783\/revisions\/5785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}