Homemade funfetti cupcakes...
My friend wants funfetti cupcakes for her birthday and I refuse to use a box cake. Has anyone made these with a yellow cake recipe and regular sprinkles? I'm worried the regular sprinkles might not melt properly and make them crunchy...eww.
Any tips?
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12 Comments:
As soon as I read the title for this post, I thought of using sprinkles...they're pretty much pure sugar, right? Plus, think about putting them on ice cream--if you stir them around and let them sit for a bit, they disappear--cooking them in an oven, I'd be almost sure that they would melt and the color would seep into the cake!
Hope they work out (sounds delicious!)
luswim06 at 8:52AM on 09/10/08
http://bakingbites.com/2007/04/confetti-cupcakes/
this looks like it would work pretty well!
amaher40 at 9:17AM on 09/10/08
That's pretty much what they include in the boxed mix, so I'm sure it'd work great.
Laurel E at 9:51AM on 09/10/08
I agree that they would work with a regular cake recipe and sprinkles, but if you want the authentic boxed funfetti flavor, be sure to use a white cake, not yellow.
ChristineB at 10:01AM on 09/10/08
I've never funfetti-ed--how is the 'real' funfetti different from sprinkles?
If they come separate in the boxed mix, you could just make your own real cake, take the 'fetti' from the box, and then use the boxed mix for something else.
HeartofGlass at 11:47AM on 09/10/08
I think sprinkles will work.
Is this a comfort food from your friend's childhood? I hope you don't go through all this effort only to have them say, "That was tasty, but it wasn't funfetti."
SSMom at 12:40PM on 09/10/08
If my friend said she wanted funfetti then I would probably bit the bullet and make the box cake. It's what she wants and it is her day.
dinnermama at 12:59PM on 09/10/08
I feel ya on the box mix thing, but here's another vote for biting the bullet and using the mix, unless your friend has said otherwise. Made from scratch would definitely be *better*, but your friend is probably expecting a very specific texture and flavor that you really can't duplicate at home.
pieninja at 3:58PM on 09/10/08
Why not use your creative cooking energies to decorate the box cake, piggy-backing off of the other posters suggestions to use the box? Or maybe make a top layer of funfetti and then make a bottom layer of real chocolate cake?
HeartofGlass at 6:39PM on 09/10/08
Thanks guys
Actually I experimented yesterday and the sprinkles I bought bled so much the cupcakes kind of turned purple... Maybe I just used sprinkles that bleed color ridiculously quickly and the box mix sprinkles don't or something. So I used some blue food coloring and make them purple and blue swirl curcakes. Pretty cool for a test-batch, even if it's not funfetti.
I am going to bite the bullet and make box-cake cupcakes and decorate them awesomely. I may even do the cupcakes in layers of swirl and funfetti to make them ultrafun. Thanks everyone for your input!
ashkashbgsh at 8:02AM on 09/11/08
You must be a very kind and thoughtful person to put so much effort into your friend's birthday!
SSMom at 9:02AM on 09/11/08
Why don't you make your own yellow cake and use the funfetti sprinkles from the cake mix? You would waste the cake mix but you'd have a better tastying cake with the good sprinkles!
watchforbears at 10:51PM on 09/12/08