{"id":91,"date":"2009-07-23T19:15:22","date_gmt":"2009-07-24T00:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dementedramblings.com\/?p=91"},"modified":"2009-07-23T19:15:22","modified_gmt":"2009-07-24T00:15:22","slug":"if-id-known-you-were-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dementedramblings.com\/?p=91","title":{"rendered":"If I&#8217;d known you were coming&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the last few weeks, Tastespotting has been filled with Rainbow Cakes (google them, you&#8217;ll find a lot of images with great explanations).  The colors call to me.  I wanted to make my own, especially when I saw someone else make them into cupcakes.  Besides, I needed to test out my oven, y&#8217;know.<\/p>\n<p>I mixed up an ordinary cake mix.  As someone else said, Betty Crocker&#8217;s been doing it for many more years than me, she knows what she&#8217;s doing.  In this case it was Pillsbury, because they were cheapest.  Just a plain white cake mix, done up per package directions.    <\/p>\n<p>I split the batter into six ramekins and played around with the food coloring a bit.  I went too dark with my purple, it wound up more brown, but it was rather grey and adding more red just made it more brown.  I gave up.  <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dementedramblings.com\/images\/foodblogging\/rainbowcupcake_batter.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>You can see there that I haven&#8217;t even finished taking all the tools out of the kitchen, there&#8217;s a level on the counter still!  <\/p>\n<p>I spooned a little of each batter into paper lined muffin cups, only making 12.  I know, this mix should make 24, but I wanted big cupcakes and I only have one muffin pan.  If you have more patience than me, you would carefully add the batter to the center and let it spread outward or whatever.  I am more slapdash than that.   I just randomly blooped it in.<\/p>\n<p>Baked them (at the top end of the baking time since they&#8217;re super sized) and they came out like this:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dementedramblings.com\/images\/foodblogging\/rainbowcupcake_cooling.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>You know I couldn&#8217;t wait for them to cool off before slicing into one.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dementedramblings.com\/images\/foodblogging\/rainbowcupcake_inside.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>*squeee*  I&#8217;ll top them with just some cool whip later, because that&#8217;s what I wanted on them.  <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a plain white cake, it tastes like a plain white cake.  It&#8217;s just more fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the last few weeks, Tastespotting has been filled with Rainbow Cakes (google them, you&#8217;ll find a lot of images with great explanations). The colors call to me. I wanted to make my own, especially when I saw someone else make them into cupcakes. Besides, I needed to test out my oven, y&#8217;know. I mixed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-experimental-kitchenry","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dementedramblings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dementedramblings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dementedramblings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dementedramblings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dementedramblings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=91"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dementedramblings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dementedramblings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dementedramblings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dementedramblings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}