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Rainbow Cupcakes
So they’re not very hard to make, but I warn you now, they are VERY time consuming!!
I made them for my 23rd birthday party the other week, and I made them again on Saturday for my Nana’s 80th birthday! She is awesome like rainbows and cupcakes, hence the need for rainbow cupcakes!!
Ingredients
1 1/2 cup SR Flour
2 eggs
1 cup Sugar
4 oz (125g) butter
Vanilla
1/2 cup milk
Method
1. Mix it all together in a mix master/food processor. Make sure the mix isn’t too wet. I would add the milk last, and slowly so that it’s only just enough- still thick, but not gluggy.
I used three times this amount for 24 LARGE cupcakes. I would recommend making about 28 out of this mix if you can.
2. Divide the mix equally between the bowls and put food colouring into bowl. Each bowl will need its own spoon.
Example of how much food dye I used… these were too light. To make them more like the other batch I made (picture at top) use double this much.
Mix pink and just a tiny bit of blue to make purple…
Also this is more effective with less layers. I did six layers this time, and the layers were too thin and joined together. 4-5 colours is ideal.
Also, brighter colours work a lot better then light colours because they are more defined. I know that some people are anti heaps of food die… if so, this cake is probs not for you!
3. Layer the colours into the patty pans. Don’t fiddle with the batter once it’s in the patty pan!! I can not stress this enough. I DID play with it on my second attempt and it didn’t really work as well. If there are bits of the previous colour showing through add a bit more batter, but don’t try to swoosh it with your finger/spoon!!
I did a little video to help you with the layering…
Rainbow Cupcakes from Talia Carbis on Vimeo.
NOTE: Do not fill up your patty pans too much. You don’t want them to spill out of the top because then the layers get lost over the side. In this case it is much better to make small cupcakes then large ones (hard to believe, I know!).
4. Cook in a moderate oven. The time really depends on how big your patty pans are. I would check after 15 minutes, and then every 5-10 minutes after that (obviously more regularly at the end, and less regularly at the first check).
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How To Cover Up An Ugly Corkboard
Corkboards get so gosh darn ugly! Once you poked all the holes in them, and the cork starts coming apart etc… not cool. Anyway, they ARE really quite handy- so I covered one of mine up with some cheap material from IKEA! SO easy. You should have a go!
Step 1. Take your fugly corkboard, and buy some funky fabric!
Step 1
Step 2: Measure out your fabric so that it’s about 2-3 inches wider on each side. Position your corkboard on top, in the middle.
Step 2
Step 3: Get a hot glue gun ready (heated) with some extra glue sticks.
Step 3
Step 4: Run the glue gun along the short side of the corkboard, on the wood. If you feel like the glue is drying before you’re done (this happened with mine cause my glue gun is old and not heating as hot as it use too), then do about 5cm at a time.
Step 4
Step 5: Once you’ve done the short side STRETCH the fabric so that it’s pulled tight, and glue on the other short side. Turn in the corners, like you can see in the picture above (step 4), and add a bit more glue to those.
Step 5
Step 6: Make sure that everything is glued on well, turn it over, and hey presto! A cute looking cork board!
Step 6
You could make these to hang on the wall just as a decoration as well. OR you could just put one photo in the middle to ‘frame’ it, or make a bit of a collage that can be displayed. Lots of options- GREAT for making the craft/kids/study room/s a bit more bright and interesting!
The Bag Bag….
The night before last we finished all our TV series we were watching (LOST & Fringe mostly- WOW to the endings of both!!), which meant that last night I got the opportunity to do some more creative things! I had just been grocery shopping, and had left over plastic bags (yes, sometimes I use plastic bags- they’re handy for bins and such!). I don’t really have anywhere to put them, and had just been stuffing them in spare spaces in the kitchen! So I decided to do something about it!
The idea of the bag bag is simple enough- I didn’t use a pattern, and don’t have one for you either, you can just make it how you want. The basic idea though is to get a piece of material the length you want the bag bag to be (plus extra for turning over). Mine was 70-odd centimeters long, and 40-odd centimeters wide. I just folded it in half and ironed it all flat. Because I was using a scrappy piece of material, I ironed over where I wanted to sew the edges together.
Once that was sewn up I folded over the edges, and sewed around each.
Once they were folded over I just cut a little hole in it (this is all inside out by the way), so that I could tread through the straps I’d made. You could obviously use elastic, or ribbon, or a rope… anything really. I liked the idea of using something I could tie so that I could adjust it once I’d started using it.
Thread it through…
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Now, this was my only little idea that I actually had myself (the rest has been basic, and the same as any other I’ve seen…). For the top, I used a longer cord, and instead of gathering it till it was the right size and then tying it off there, I just tied it at the end of the cords, so that I had a hanger!
Now it’s hangin’ in my pantry lookin’ all dandy! This was REALLY easy to make, so you should give it a try and then let me know how it went!
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