CNN Photo Usage Update

So I went ahead and emailed CNN through their online form to request proper credit for my photo, and I actually received a response!

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I was so pleased with the fast response, but I still do not see any credit on the photo or the video description. I sent Jo another email this afternoon to let him/her know, but no response yet. We'll see where this goes.

Update: Just got another e-mail from Jo. Apparently the video was too old for them to go back and edit with credit to me, but they went ahead and expired it so it will no longer play. At least something was done, and glad this is over with!

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What's up, CNN?

CNN took the liberty of using my photo twice in the above segment without contacting me for permission or crediting me. You guys all know that THAT cupcake is definitely MY rainbow cupcake! I'm flattered that they thought the cupcake was good enough to use in the segment, but upset that I couldn't even get my name in the corner or an email letting me know they were using it. I know the photo is EVERYWHERE online (comes up #2 in a Google image search for "rainbow cupcake"), but it's not that hard to find the original owner of internet content. I sent them an email asking for the issue to be resolved, so I'll let y'all know how it turns out.

The photo in question, from my Triple Rainbow Cupcakes post:

Triple Rainbow Cupcakes

Let me start this post off by saying that the cupcakes you are about to see are the most AWESOME cupcakes I have made to date. Everything just fell into place perfectly, and they turned out amazingly.

I made these for my younger cousin Kaity, who is in love with all things rainbow. I made them for her 15th birthday on January 30th. I used the simple white cake recipe from my last post, and the same frosting recipe, but with powdered sugar this time.

Pictures first, explanation after:

So you're probably wondering how I made these normal-tasting cupcakes so psychadelic! Well first I made up the batter (you can use any white cake for this) and divided it into six bowls.

Then, I added food coloring to each bowl to make red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple batter.


Next I layered the colors into lined muffin tins. Purple, blue, green, yellow, orange, red, so that the rainbow pattern will be right side up. I smoothed each layer with a spoon to avoid waviness.



Then of course I baked them! To get the rainbow frosting, I did kind of the same thing. I made the frosting (of course you could use any white frosting) and divided it into six bowls. I colored each bowl with gel food coloring to avoid watery frosting, and layered them into my piping bag. Make sure to squeeze some of the frosting out of the piping bag back into a frosting bowl before piping onto the cupcakes as the bottom color (in my case pink) will be predominant until the rest of the frosting works down to the bottom of the bag. I didn't know this, so that's why the first three or so of my cupcakes were mostly pink. No matter, still awesome. To finish them off, I topped them with rainbow non-pareils! Kaity loved them, and so has everyone else that's seen them so far. They were super tasty, too!