Homemade Rainbow Sprinkles are the easiest DIY. Made simply with color, sugar, and milk, it is the best way to control what goes in your food.
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It was my sonny boy’s birthday and after many mental changes on how to present the Chocolate Orange cupcakes for all the kids, I decided to just sprinkle them with some homemade Rainbow Sprinkles. I had seen this post on I Am Baker a while ago but like all her other posts, it stayed with me. :)
As she rightly says, it is quite easy but even then I met with disasters – can’t help it, it’s me :) I made the first attempt with an orange color & I do not know why but the icing became too thin. I did try to use that but it was too runny & my dots became like con-joined twins. I added about 1 tsp cornflour but it didn’t help much. I left it in between & moved to other colors. The yellow was better but I think I became too conscious & it was slightly thicker than it should have been. The green was a perfect consistency.
I used liquid colors as the shop from where I buy baking supplies had not heard of gel-based colors & offered me oil-based colors. I had no idea if they were the same or could be substituted for each other so I stuck to liquid colors. As Amanda suggests I believe it would have been better to use gel colors and I might have avoided the situation of a runny icing.
I used homemade paper cones, which I felt weren’t the best options. The paper started tearing after a few squeezes & after a while the icing hardened in it & I couldn’t apply much pressure. I read somewhere that even disposable (plastic) piping bags won’t work here. Maybe next time I will be less lazy & use a pastry bag – I own two. :)
I found that they dried in much lesser time than 24 hours. But Orange dots didn’t come off easily even after 48 hours & with too much pressure they either crushed or came off with little paper. I plan to re-do them again this evening. If I do, then I will update.
Taste was really good – certified by both, birthday boy & his papa.
Homemade Rainbow Sprinkles
Ingredients
- ⅓ cup icing sugar
- 1 tsp light corn syrup homemade
- few drops color
- ¼ tsp vanilla extract
- 1 tsp milk
Instructions
- Mix all the ingredients except milk together. Add in milk slowly till it reaches desired consistency.
- Pipe in dots or lines on a butter paper. Allow to cool for 24 hours & remove when dry completely. Store in air-tight container.
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