If you’re looking for a super cute St. Patrick’s Day Rainbow Cupcake Recipe, a fun treat to serve at a kid’s birthday party, or a Spring activity, check out this colorful cupcake idea! It’s so easy to make that your kids will have fun helping you from prepping to cooking.

let’s make rainbow cupcakes recipe

And for the best part… they will be so excited to eat lots of rainbow cupcakes and even share them with their friends!

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Rainbow CupcakeS ingredients

• White cake mix
• Food Dye (we used the gel kind)
• Lots of little bowls and spoons
• Cupcake liners and a cupcake pan
• Icing and sprinkles

Directions TO MAKE RAINBOW CUPCAKES: 

Step 1

Mix in the batter.

Step 2

Separate the batter into different bowls, and add the food dye to each bowl. (My birthday girl chose the colors: pink, blue purple, green and yellow. If we ever do this again, we would probably eliminate the color purple, it came out a funny almost gray/brown color once baked).

Step 3

Once the bowls of color are created, drop spoonfuls of the dyed batter into cupcake cups. If you have leftovers, you can make a marbled mini-cake!

Step 4

Then put into the oven to bake. Follow the baking directions on the cake mix box that you use.

That’s how simple it is to make Rainbow Cupcakes! They were a huge hit!  These cupcakes are perfect for St. Patrick’s Day, or any other occasion.

More simple cupcake recipes

Once I bake a batch of cupcakes, I always want to make more cupcakes. I love how the house smells after I’ve been baking! If you’re looking for more baking ideas, check these out:

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Aren’t these colorful rainbow cupcakes perfect? Do you make special treats for St. Patrick’s Day, birthdays or any ordinary days? Tell us in the comments!