Rainbow Cupcakes

Yay!

When i saw these cupcakes, I started googling "how to make rainbow cake" and i kinda became obsessed with the idea of making this epic, layered, rainbow cake.  I even bought a cake leveler and gel colours! LOL One day this rainbow cake will happen but for the meantime, this is my attempt at rainbow-fyed cupcakes.  Haha rainbow-fyed, I just googled "rainbow-fyed" and the search results came up with rainbow fried rice LOL whaaaaatt? Seems like you can rainbow anything these days lol.

My rainbow cupcakes turned teeny-weeny and since, I found, there was not a lot of batter to work with, it was quite hard to spread each coloured layer to the edges for an even colour distribution.  So i'm going to post the recipe I used with double the amount of ingredients so this recipe should make 12 decent sized cupcakes. 

Before I do that, here is another picture i took of my batch of cupcakes looking all cute with their butter cream frosting.  My first ever attempt at piping icing on a cupcake too! It was fun.  I watch way too many cake shows on tv...

Rainbow Cupcake Recipe

Ingredients

1 cup caster sugar

250g unsalted butter (softened)

4 eggs (room temperature)

2 cups self-raising flour

2 teaspoons vanilla essence

6 tablespoons milk

food colouring or gel colours (I used gel colours) 

Method

1. Preheat oven to 200ºC.  Line a 12 hole cupcake tray with cupcake papers.

2. Cream the butter and sugar until pale and fluffy

3. Beat the eggs in one at a time, adding a little flour each time until the ingredients are combined.

4. Add the vanilla essence and mix.  Then add the milk one tablespoon at a time mixing after each addition

5. Divide the mixture into 6 bowls

If you are using food colouring:

In bowl 1 - add half a cap of red food colouring

In bowl 2 - add half a cap of red and half a cap of yellow

In bowl 3 - add half a cap of yellow

In bowl 4 - add half a cap of green

In bowl 5 - add half a cap of blue

In bowl 6 - add half a cap of blue and half cap of red

If you are using gel colours, add tiny amounts of colour at a time until you reach the desired colour.  Less is more, when it comes to the gels. 

6. Divide the purple mixture between the 12 cases.  Repeat with the other mixtures in this order: Blue, Green, Yellow, Orange, Red.

7. Bake in the oven for approximately 15 minutes or until a skewer inserted in a cupcake comes out clean.

You can enjoy them as they are or you can top them with buttercream frosting.

Buttercream Frosting

Ingredients

1 cup unsalted butter (softened)

3 1/2 cups icing sugar

1 teaspoon milk

1 teaspoon vanilla essence

1/8 teaspoon salt

Method

1. In a bowl combine butter, sugar and salt.  Beat until blended.

2. Add the milk and vanilla and beat for an additional 3-5 minutes or until smooth and creamy.

I found this "how to" on frosting cupcakes here.  

Mine pale in comparison :(

It's 2:15am :O time to catch some zzzz

♡B