Rainbow Cupcakes

Colorful Caterpillar Cupcake

Ingeredients

1 package vanilla cake mix

11/4 cups water

3 eggs

1/3 cup vegetable oil

Food Coloring

Buttercream Frosting

Assorted candies, candy-coated chocolate pieces, red string licorice, lollipops, and gummy worms

Preheat oven to 350 and mix all ingredients, bake for 21 to 23 minutes and let cool.

Buttercream Frosting

1 cup butter

1 teaspoon vanilla

1/4 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon meringue powder

1 tablespoon milk

1 package powdered sugar

Direction

Beat butter, vanilla, and salt, next add meringue powder and milk. Gradually add powdered sugar, beat at high speed until frosting is light and fluffy! Next you can stir in food coloring until you get your desired colors.

Frost cupcakes place one cupcake on its side towards the end of serving platter. Place second cupcake on its side next to first cupcake, arrange remaining cupcakes.

Frost 1 reserved cupcake decorate with assorted candies, licorice and lollipops to create face and antennae. place plain cupcake upright at front of cupcake row for head, top with face cupcake on its side. Cut gummy worms into small pieces, attach to caterpillar body with frosting to create legs.

Enjoy!!!

Strawberry Angel Food Trifle

Store-bought angel food cake 24 oz. container frozen strawberries, sliced with sugar added, thawed 24 oz. or 3 cups vanilla pudding (We used 6+ small individual cups this time) 16 oz. container of whipped cream, slightly less than the whole container Fresh strawberries for garnish Tear angel food cake into medium pieces.  Begin layering cake, strawberries, pudding and whip cream in a large clear glass bowl.  Continue irregular layers, filling the bowl.  Top entire dessert with a solid layer of whip cream.  Slice a few fresh strawberries for garnish.  Refrigerate overnight or at least 4 hours before serving.  To me it tastes like all the flavors of strawberry shortcake in one big yummy bite!  I think it would be GREAT to add blueberries to this mix too.  Or nanners.  Maybe kiwi?  However, I’ll first need to find a purty bowl like mom’s.  Hint hint.