A friend of mine teaches first grade and she pinned this to her board and when I saw them I knew I had to make them!
So how did they turn out? Well read on to see...
The main point of making them was not that I thought it was super-important to celebrate Earth Day on Monday because I think we should celebrate Earth Day every day. As you can tell by the fact that I made these yesterday :) The point was that I thought they would be fun to make. And they were. I just made my regular cupcake batter. And then I divided the batter in half and dyed half of it blue and half of it green. I think the original poster used day-glo food colouring because I added a lot of it (like 25 drops to each half) and couldn't get the bright colours she got. However, as I may have mentioned before, I am not a perfectionist so I decided to just go for it and see what I got.
Then we took a beater licking break because Sam couldn't wait any longer!
And it was
entirely planned completely random that Sam and I just happened to be wearing shirts which matched the batter colours!
Rachel thought this beater licking thing looked pretty cool and she wanted to give it a try.
The hardest part for me was trying to figure out how to get the cupcake batters mixed together in the muffin cups properly. I mostly just winged it (wung it???).
Here is the non-baked finished result. I was just hoping they would turn out at this point but it was an 18 minute wait while they baked.
And the final result! Even though I didn't end up with the brilliant colours of the original one, I was pretty impressed that they looked like abstract little earths. Yay me! And they tasted really good too which was the really important thing. If you're looking for a fun little thing to do to commemorate Earth Day (a day late mind you!) then I would highly recommend making these. We also celebrated Earth Day by eating vegetable chowder, the bread I baked on Saturday and then working in our yard all evening. Yay for The Earth :)
They probably used gel food colouring to get the intense colours. Looks yummy!
ReplyDeleteHow cute! I've mixed cupcake colors for St. Patrick's Day before. It's fun the be festive! BTW, Rachel looks like a big girl in these pictures.
ReplyDeleteThanks! And yes, Rachel is seeming so big lately. Someone was commenting on that at church just last week.
DeleteCute! You are just too crafty. I love that Peter Rabbit apron of Sam's and yours is cute too. Happy "belated" Earth Day! :-)
ReplyDeleteWhat a neat idea! I will have to pin and remember to try this next year!! Super cute!
ReplyDeleteCute Apron!! And I need a good bread recipe...all the ones I've tried turn into lumps.
ReplyDeleteMy cousin makes these aprons and I love them. It's reversible which I love. It's like two aprons in one. The bread recipe I made is my grandma's. The secret is to mix it well and let it rise well in between times. But nor for too long like I did :)
DeleteThe do look like a lot of fun! Maybe not exactly like the pin, but in no way a pinterest fail. And I bet they were delicious, were really is the only thing that really matters.
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