Charlotte, the multi-talented Social Committee chair, asked me to make a cupcake creation to accompany the ‘Wizard of Oz’ birthday spread for our Lower School faculty/staff. My immediate response was, “Of course!!! It’s my favorite film, and I’m such a fan of the Baum books!” Ah, yes…it was only a few moments later that I realized that they would be required at approximately the same time as parent-teacher conferences/conference-note writing and such craziness. However, I couldn’t pass on this opportunity! I found a blog posting at Baking Bites for rainbow cupcakes and I just had to try them! My culinary confidantes, just mixing/pouring these lovely treats was a process. It took close to an hour to prepare them for baking, and they were overflowing quite a bit! Muffin tops, muffin tops, muffin tops – oh, my! Needless to say, they were too moist upon retrieving them from the oven, so I put them in the freezer to firm up just a bit. Only two were salvageable enough that I felt comfortable serving them to colleagues. Due to the moisture added from the gel coloring, they were super-duper tasty, but too soft to hold their shape. If/when I choose to recreate these little darlings again (anyone need LGBT/PRIDE cupcakes?), I shall reduce the amount of oil called for in the recipe, and use only 2t (rather than 1T) per color when layering the batter in each well. Oh, and silicon liners would be preferred. In the end, I chose to create chocolate ‘munchkin cupcakes’ and decorated them with white buttercream and a few fondant friends from Oz. The ‘Accident in Munchkinland’ cupcake (photo to be added soon!) was inspired by another post I found online – so much fun!
Beautiful cupcakes. I am sending them down the Rainbow Connection...I am sure they will complete a Rainbow Installation. We are also having a GBLT event in a few weeks to celebrate the new Illinois civil union laws. Might pass it along to the organizer as well.
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