Rainbow Cakes! tiny to GIGANTO-sized cupcakes!

October 25th Sunday. My first try with many things for this baking session! for the very first time, i baked a Lemon Pound Cake. its got cream cheese in it! First try with my new Giant Cupcake Pan! Also first time creating a very colourful Rainbow Cake! thus creating for the very first time - A very colourful Rainbow Giant Cupcake! with the remaining batter, i made the regular-sized cuppies and 3 tiny ones!

it was mad rush in the morning, as i was baking for my hubby who started driving back from KL! its suppose to be a surprise but he surprised me by setting off so early from KL! so no pics taken before getting to this colourful stage! i am very particular about getting the right tone in the colours... yes there are 7 colours in the rainbow and i have 8 in the pic! i like the tiffany blue i created and i kept it and created the right sky blue, thus there are total 8 coloured batter!

using the giant cupcake pan set my heart throbbing fast! from the moment i was done filling up the pan, i began to worry! would it fill up to the top, will it erupt, will it be cooked? will it taste good? will it fail???? i kept my fingers crossed! after 40mins in the oven, i open it up to test.... nope it wasn't ready, the middle and bottom was still wet... then another 20mins past, its been an hour, its still wet... and the top began to brown... another 20mins... the eruption started to break the smooth surface!!! and its still not cooked!!! it got me really worried!!! will it fail??? can't remember in the end how long it took to bake the cake but the cake was a little dry.... then come the worry, whether the cake would turn out nicely! and so glad it did! all the details came out nice! the colour did turn out great for the top of the cupcake that i didnt need to frost it! very lucky as i didnt have time to make my favourite creamcheese frosting!

made with love especially for daddy, my dear hubby! the cake was alittle dry but i love the smell of the fresh zested lemon in the cake... pipped alittle mashmellow creme to go with the cake. it was a long slice of cake and i love the colours in the giant cupcake with the green and purple missing as i leveled the cake, removing the erupted part! i started with too little red and didnt dare to add too much batter at first thus so much orange for the base and i made a booboo by adding orange first as the last colour in the Rainbow song is blue...

after the long wait for the giant cupcake, the regular-sized cuppies baked in the oven beautifully! love the colourful surface! but i didnt have time to wait for it to bake and left it to M to look after them. the top cracked alittle as i think it was baked alittle too long in the oven! in comparison, the cuppies tasted softer in texture. love the colourful marbled effect on the cupcake case! everyone was different as i just spoon the batter in and let it flow anyway. love the residue colours on the wrapper!

mum say she liked the firm texture yet crumbly in the mouth! glad she liked it! i still have lemons in my fridge as i forgot to bring them over to mums and bought new ingredients for this bake... next i will still bake lemony cupcakes but a different recipe! want to try out something that i always been wanting to do... hope i can find some time!

with pink and red batter left, i filled 3 tiny cupcake holders in different ways to see the effect. One all red, one all pink and one marbled pink and red. the tiny marbled cuppie turn out the nicest and these bite-sized cuppies as like sweet treats! think they made beautiful Valentines' day cuppies!