To celebrate the end of the school year, I made cupcakes to thank my interns and program assistants, as well as for our staff lunch, where we celebrated my co-worker’s pregnancy. Someone mentioned that the mom-to-be loves funfetti cake but I haven’t used a box cake mix in several years.
Instead, I found lots of recipes online for making funfetti from scratch, and ended up doubling two recipes: this one for the cake and this one for frosting to make around 19 cupcakes. I used oblong rainbow sprinkles in the batter, which melted in the oven and made perfect little splotches of bright color inside the cupcakes.
I piped the frosting with a 1M tip and decorated it with three types of sprinkles – the oblong rainbow ones, tiny rainbow nonpareils and pastel confetti.
Which sprinkles do you like best?
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Monet
June 9, 2010 at 9:18 am (15 years ago)Both please! I adored funfetti cupcakes when I was a child. Thank you for sharing such beautiful pictures. It takes me back to the days of 1st grade birthday parties. Yum!
Debbie
June 9, 2010 at 9:21 am (15 years ago)Great idea, I have so many leftover sprinkles I could easily do this. Thanks!
Stephanie
June 9, 2010 at 3:57 pm (15 years ago)It’s perfect for leftover sprinkles! The recipe uses them all up.
Melissa
June 9, 2010 at 10:00 am (15 years ago)I think I like the biggest sprinkles on top best, but it is also kind of fun having different sprinkles on the different cupcakes.
Chef Dennis
June 9, 2010 at 4:27 pm (15 years ago)I better taste them to decide which I like better, send over a dozen and I’ll blog my results!!
Wheels
June 9, 2010 at 4:52 pm (15 years ago)Omg we are so making these when I come to town next please!!
Lisa {AuthenticSuburbanGourmet }
June 9, 2010 at 5:57 pm (15 years ago)There is nothing better than white cake with white frosting and then throwing in the colored sprinkles on top!
Patty Price
June 9, 2010 at 7:18 pm (15 years ago)very fun, great for end of school celebration, love the sprinkles with the white frosting!
TaleTellerin
June 9, 2010 at 9:55 pm (15 years ago)These look really yum. Love the color blotches in the cakes and sprinkle-wise… I think I like the big round ones best.
The Cilantropist
June 9, 2010 at 10:50 pm (15 years ago)I think I like the biggest sprinkles the best, they sort of look like cute polka dots! Hurray for you, for making these from scratch yourself. I always applaud any effort to make something on your own rather than use store-bought! 🙂
Lisa
June 10, 2010 at 12:07 am (15 years ago)pretty pretty! ive always wanted to try making home made funfetti cupcakes since i cant buy the mix here. the cupcakes look beautiful! oh, i and i like the confetti sprinkles the most 😉
Heather I.
June 10, 2010 at 8:46 am (15 years ago)I’d have to say the oblong sprinkles. I’m sure these are so much tastier than the store bought mix! They just scream “Happy Birthday”!
Hanna W
June 10, 2010 at 10:22 am (15 years ago)Great post!! I have tried to make funfetti at home before but made the mistake of stirring the sprinkles waaaay too much, the coloring came off making the batter a gross gray color, yours look beautiful though!
For my own personal taste preferences I like the oblong sprinkles but I think the bigger round ones are cute for decorating!
Stephanie
June 10, 2010 at 1:43 pm (15 years ago)Thanks! I added the sprinkles after everything was combined and folded them in with a spatula. The color didn’t bleed at all.
Andrea Groves
June 10, 2010 at 3:20 pm (15 years ago)Yum. Any cake makes me happy, and the color is fun!
The round sprinkles would have to be my favorite for decorating. 🙂
The Housewife
June 10, 2010 at 3:54 pm (15 years ago)The cupcakes look so pretty and festive! I need one to fight my meltdown as I type…
whatnomints
June 12, 2010 at 1:38 pm (15 years ago)Oddly enough, Funfetti cupcakes remind me of college … I would make them for my friends all the time (from the box of course, I’m not too keen with baking from scratch!) – They just put a smile on everyone’s face! Proves you don’t have to be a kid to enjoy these fun little cakes 🙂
Angela
June 12, 2010 at 2:08 pm (15 years ago)I’ve always loved rainbow nonpareils. I also love how you turned funfetti cake into a homemade one, so much better than boxed cake mix. I’ll have to try this out for fun 🙂
Sarah
June 13, 2010 at 12:53 pm (15 years ago)Funfetti cake is the absolute best. I love the rainbow nonpareils as well, and add them to pancakes as well…typically on birthdays, anniversaries, or other celebrations as a little something special 🙂
Stephanie
June 13, 2010 at 2:26 pm (15 years ago)Sprinkles in pancakes – what a great idea! I’ve added lots of other things to pancakes but I’ve never thought of sprinkles. That sounds so festive and fun.
Brandi
July 22, 2010 at 4:32 am (14 years ago)They look yummy!
Kathy
August 2, 2010 at 9:42 pm (14 years ago)When I was growing up, we had Funfetti cake or cupcakes at every birthday, from a box. But the sprinkles on top were always the tiny round things. Mom would let us kind of press them down a little into the icing so they wouldn’t fall off.
Katelynn
August 12, 2010 at 3:39 pm (14 years ago)Hi Stephanie, Those cupcakes look so pretty! Perfect to make for someone’s birthday. I may have to try to make those soon. 🙂
Kori
January 10, 2011 at 2:39 pm (14 years ago)These are beautiful! Just what I was looking for, as a friend of mine’s bday is coming up, and she loves Funfetti cupcakes…but I, too, refuse to make anything from a box filled with preservatives and who knows what and was hoping to make them from scratch 🙂 Thanks so much for sharing! I love how you used different types of sprinkles too. These are adorable!
Linda V @ Bubble and Sweet
June 11, 2011 at 8:40 pm (14 years ago)I like them all but in order or funfetti cuteness I would have to say, confetti sprinkles, rainbow non-pareils and then the oblong rainbow 🙂
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October 23, 2011 at 12:30 pm (13 years ago)yum. i love making funfetti cake/cupcakes! 🙂 YUMMMMMAAAAY!