One of the reasons that everyone looks forward to spring after a long, cold winter is that everything starts to explode with color this time of year, as plants come back to life and flowers burst open. The baking aisle happens to be brightening up with lots of colors, too, thanks to Pillsbury’s Funfetti® Bold Cupcake & Cake Mixes and Frostings. This new line is full of cakes that come in bright, fun colors that will add some flair to your baked goods.
The mixes are packaged in stand up pouches, rather than traditional cake mix boxes, and deliver 12 cupcakes or one layer of a layer cake. This is a great portion for smaller batch baking and if you want to mix and match the colors for a festive layer cake without messing with different dyes and worrying if your layers are going to be even. The coloring is already in the mix, so you just have to mix and bake.
To kick-off the spring baking season, I teamed up with Pillsbury to host a giveaway that includes lots of colorful goodies – like the products I used to make my March Madness Cupcakes – Â that will allow you to infuse some bold colors into any spring party or event!
The spring giveaway includes:
- Funfetti® Aqua Blue Cupcake and Cake Mix
- Funfetti Orange All Starâ„¢ Cupcake and Cake Mix
- Funfetti Neon Yellow Cupcake and Cake Mix
- Funfetti Vibrant Green Cupcake and Cake Mix
- Funfetti Orange All Starâ„¢ Vanilla Flavored Frosting with Colorful Star Shaped Candy Bits
- Funfetti Neon Yellow Vanilla Flavored Frosting with Multi-Colored Candy Bits
- $100 dollar Visa or American Express gift card
Total estimated giveaway value: $108.
To enter the contest, just leave a comment below and tell me what color mix appeals to you the most. Would you simply bake a batch of sky blue cupcakes? Would you make some Swirled Cupcakes to support your favorite sports team? The winner of the contest will be chosen at random, so no advantage will go towards one color preference or another! The contest ends at midnight Friday, May 2nd and one winner will be randomly selected from the entries at that time. Don’t forget to fill in your e-mail on the comment form (it will not be made public), as that is how I will contact the winner, and good luck to everyone!
And if you want to get some more great ideas on ways to “Go Bold” in your springtime baking, head over to Pillsbury Baking’s Facebook Page!
©/® The J.M. Smucker Company. Pillsbury is a trademark of The Pillsbury Company, LLC, used under license. This giveaway is sponsored, but all opinions expressed are my own.
Update: Comments are now closed. Congrats to Lauri on winning this giveaway! Â Thanks to everyone for participating!!
bianca
April 30, 2014all swirled together for tie-dye cupcakes!
Kellie
April 30, 2014I think the orange cake mix and orange frosting sound great
Jhamille
April 30, 2014All the colours to make a rainbow cake for my lil sis birthday
Brenda Gibson
April 30, 2014I am going with the orange as this is my grandsons’ favorite color
shamima
April 30, 2014Pretty rainbow cakes and cupcakes.Try layering with different colour mixtures.
jane
April 30, 2014Aqua blue!
Hannah
April 30, 2014I love the idea of swirled for a sports team. Go Mavs!!
Lisa
April 30, 2014I’m excited about using the vibrant green and the yellow! It’d be so spring like!
Katie Rose
April 30, 2014I like eating blue foods. Probably because there are no real blue foods and it’s my favorite color.
Rachel Cartucci
April 30, 2014Aqua blue would be great!!! FUN!
Dawn K.
April 30, 2014I would do blue and yellow, and attempt to make soccer ball looking cake pops for our school team.
Elizabeth
April 30, 2014The blue for sure, though they would all be fun to use in different combinations.
Shaakirah
April 30, 2014My Favorite is the Orange old star. i love coloring m baked goods and orange is my favorite color
Alaine
April 30, 2014I’d love the blue cupcakes 🙂
mysweetiepiepie
April 30, 2014I like the Funfetti Orange All Starâ„¢ Cupcake and Cake Mix.
Kim L
April 30, 2014I have used and loved the Aqua Blue – I think I’d like to try yellow next – so happy.
Cassandra Eastman
April 30, 2014I would use the blue and yellow together! My son wants to have a minion themed birthday party so the colors would be perfect and fun!
Jill
May 1, 2014I would make the neon yellow cupcakes for my daughter and the aqua blue for my son! That is their favorite colors!
Deb Jackson
May 1, 2014I would use the lovely aqua blue to make oceanic themes and then I would go with yellow for fish bodies.
dreama e
May 1, 2014My kids would love the blue
Sandi
May 1, 2014I’d pick blue, because it is both my and my husband’s favorite color. If I could send them overseas to my husband I would, and I would top them with some blue frosting and maybe some chocolate shavings and sugar sprinkles.
Melissa M
May 1, 2014I would makeblue cake with orange icing.
Selly
May 1, 2014I think because baseball season started we should go with teams colors…
Grace G
May 1, 2014I’d go with Vibrant Green. It’s my favorite color and just so happens to be part of my company’s colors. 🙂
Jennifer C.
May 1, 2014The vibrant green is so cool
Tegan
May 1, 2014I’d like to make a rainbow of cupcakes.
amanda whiltey
May 1, 2014i love the aqua blue mix!
Elle
May 1, 2014I would definitely use the aqua blue mix and maybe make a mixture of that and the yellow.
Betsy Barnes
May 1, 2014I love the bright, bold blue mix. I would bake a batch of sky blue cupcakes when we watch the Carolina Panthers, also be fun during the draft weekend that’s coming up this weekend 🙂
Bethany
May 1, 2014aqua blue, all the way!
Linda
May 2, 2014The vibrant green mix appeals to me the most but I’d probably play around with the different color mixes and make fun designs.
Rebecca
May 2, 2014That Vibrant green would be great for st. patty’s day!
Sheena
May 2, 2014I would make a one layer cake using all the colors and then stack them from aqua blue to neon yellow. Then, I’d frost with the orange and the bottom and yellow at the top. And then I’d cover in the sprinkles. Seems like a lovely idea for mid-spring, early-summer.
Steph
May 2, 2014I would bake the aqua blue! They would be so unique! Yum.
meredith
May 2, 2014The Funfetti Neon Yellow Cupcake and Cake Mix looks fun – I would make some flower cupcakes for spring!
Amy Lynn
May 2, 2014I would do swirl cupcakes of aqua blue and green for Seahawks!! What a fun idea!! Love your march madness cupcakes~ super cute!
Patricia Wojnar Crowley
May 3, 2014I would make yellow cake for Spring!
Cheryl Newton
May 3, 2014Aqua Blue cupcakes, because my younger son’s fave color is blue.