My husband has a small stash of tie dye shirts in his closet. He mostly just wears them to bed, or on the weekend – but he really loves them! So as a special Valentine treat for him this year, I figured out how to make him cupcakes – with a tie dye theme!
They came out totally colorful and delicious. So I just had to pass on the recipe! I’m also making a mental note to pull this recipe out again when my daughter is a bit older. It would be a super homeschooling lesson on what primary colors, make other colors when mixed! Plus, it’s totally yummy- and totally groovy! Why do I suddenly have the song ” Age of Aquarius” in my head??? Happy baking y’all!
YOU NEED:
– One box of white cake mix
– 4 egg whites
-vegatable oil
-a box of food coloring
– Frosting (if you desire)
DIRECTIONS:
1. Prepare box of cake mix as directed. But substitute the three eggs it calls for to 4 egg whites instead. (This is to keep the mix very white. If it turns yellow because you use whole eggs, keep in mind that when you add food coloring they will be mixing into yellow. Thus blue food coloring will make green cake, and so on.)
2.After cake mix is ready, separate it into 4 bowls or mugs. Add different colored food coloring to each. Stir well. Keep adding color, until you get the vibrancy of color you desire.
3.Put cupcake liners in cupcake tin. Each liner will hold about 5 spoons of cupcake mix. Take turns putting a spoon of each color into each liner. It doesn’t need to be neat – in fact the more haphazardly you do this the better! Once every liner has every color in it, you can mix remaining cake mix into another color. I mixed the left over red and blue- and made purple to top cupcake liners off with.
4. Take a toothpick and swirl the colors on top for pretty tie dye marbling effect. It wont mix the colors underneath much. But it does make the top very pretty. An especially important step if you choose not to frost the cupcakes.
If anyone else tries to make these, I’d love to know how it goes! Feel free to post a link to your cupcakes below!
About Shannon SchmidShannon traded in her sensible NYC TV producer shoes (they were best for taking the subway), for a pair of Texas Cowboy boots when she married her best friend! He's at fault for making this Yankee a Texan! Shannon writes about all things that make a house a home. Her chief blogging inspiration is being the proud & slightly neurotic mom of a preschool age daughter.
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OK. THAT is super fun! I make cupcakes for my 3-day walk to help with the fundraising and I may have to try something like this!
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What a great idea! I'll have to try that next time I make cupcakes!
Thanks for sharing 🙂
wow, yummy looking cupcakes!
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They look super cute, and you could also do them in only two colors instead of four.
I'm so proud of you for trying and being creative and I love that your thinking about a lesson on color mixing!:)
awee-some!
D
Oh Yeah d! They would be great in several shades of red or pink, or as pastel colors for Easter! The possibilities are endless!!!
I love this idea!!!
Thanks for sharing.
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gonna have to try this!
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How fun is that!!
those are really, really cool! Great idea.
Okay, those are totally awesome! I am totally going to feature them! I bet the kids would have a blast making them!
Real groovy baby! :)))
Wow, you are so creative! These are so neat! I bet your hubby loved them!
what a great idea! We love tie dye too!
Aw, very cute! 🙂 I need to find a vday treat to bake 🙂
How fun! We have to make those!
my son would LOVE these! who am i kidding? so would i?
Shan those are sooo pretty and look sooo yummy!!! How creative of you to turn cupcakes for Michael into a tye die:) love them!!!
That looks really fun.
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Those are VERY cool!
Those look awesome!! They are so colorful. I will definitely need to be trying these!! Thank you so much for the idea. You always have amazing ideas. Sometimes I think my posts about food are just blah. Ha! 🙂
I'm a fan! Looks easy and fun. Plus they're GROOVY baby.
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Wow! They look really colofrul and delicious!!!
Gonna try them…
That looks like so much fun & yummy too – thanks for sharing! Stopping by via SITS 🙂 Have a great day!
This totally rocks! I can see my hippie mom making these little treats with my kids for the next family gathering ;-). Wanted to also share with you some cool ideas for family fun on snow days. Check it out! http://ilivecommunity.com/2010/02/10/winter-boredom-busters-for-extreme-family-fun-on-the-cheap/#more-576
Oh, you are so good. I wish I had the cooking talents you have. (Unfortunately, I am all thumbs in the kitchen!!)
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The colors were so bright and festive. Great idea!
I find this idea brillant , Shannon!
I love cupcakes and yours look devine!
Betty xx
friday following love this great idea!!.
This look so cool! My kids are going to love it. I am from Follow Friday and now following you! Thanks for the ideas.
That looks like a lot of fun. My daughter would be all over these!
Thanks for stopping by today! Following back and cannot wait to see some more great posts!
Stopping by to follow and say hello with Friday Follow. Looks like one fun project that everyone can help with. Lots of pretty colors to choose and to learn the names of colors.
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Huh! Never thought of doing this! This is very cool and funky. 🙂
Love it.
Fridyay Follower–LOVE this idea. My sister will be doing this with her little ones!!!!
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This is an amazing idea! I am just stopping by to tell you I'm following you from Follow Friday. I'm new to this and I'm making it difficult but I'm not sure where else to post that 🙂
Mind if I share this post with my readers? It's a super frugal V-Day gift idea and even mor adorable!
Definitely gonna have to try these cupcakes! Thanks for stopping by my blog and following from FF. Following you back. 🙂
Very fun colors!
I made red white and blue last year for July 4th and they were a huge hit too 🙂
A little color can sure make a BIG change!
Oh what lovely looking cupcakes. I bet my granddaughter would love making those. I'll have to send her your recipe. And thanks for visiting my blog, and a belated Happy Follow Friday to you.
These look great and like a ton of fun. I'll have to use them in a family night or day of play on my site (but I'll give YOU all the credit and link back to you).
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those are cool!! thanks for stopping by.. im following u back 🙂
These look super fun!!!! I'll have to keep it in mind for the boy's birthdays!
I'm happy to follow you back :). These cupcakes look so yummy. I'm a cupcake addict.
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What a cool idea! Thanks for stopping by my blog – I'm following you back!
So cute! My boys would love making these! 🙂
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Following you back from follow me Friday- I LOVE these cupcakes!
Those are so cool looking! I love that even the wrapper got the tye-dye affect!
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Whoa! That's a fun idea!
FABULOUS!
Fantastic!
Downright Mesmerizing!
😉
Can't wait to have kids so I can do FUN STUFF LIKE THIS!!!
Save this recipe and when your daughter starts kindergarten, be sure and use it when you get the chance to send baked goods to school.9and trust me will) It will be a hit and all the others kids will think your daughter's mom is the coolest! Heck 'mI giving this recipe to my college age daughter. They are always making cupcakes in the dorm for someone's birthday and with the confetti icing- wow I can hear them laughing in delight right now.
What a great idea! I'm going to have to do this with my daughter!
those are ridiculously awesome! i so love your blog!
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OMG! These are too cute! I think I might have to try and make them. Following back from Friday Follow! I can’t wait to check out more on your page. I saw lots of interesting stuff!
I actually saw this as a cake & am planning to make one for my mom’s birthday this weekend. I’ll post how it goes:)
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What a great idea! I am now following you too! Thanks for taking time to stop by.
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So cute! I was just thinking they would be even easier if you put a ziplock bag in the glass and pulled it over the sides before adding the batter and coloring. Then you could just close the bag, clip the corner out and have an easy way to add the batter in each cupcake. They did turn out so cute.
Cute idea! This would be fun to make with kiddos! Thanks for the follow. You’ll want cupcakes and I’ll want chocolate chip cookies from looking at your header!! 🙂 Happy Friday!
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