Recipes

Rainbow Cupcakes

Ingredients:

2 ½ cups plain flour

½ teaspoons baking soda

2 teaspoons baking powder

½ teaspoons salt

½ cup milk

½ cup vegetable oil

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

½ cup butter

1 cup white sugar

3 eggs, room temperature

Red food colouring

Blue food colouring

Green food colouring

Yellow food colouring

Cooks Tools:

2x 12 cup muffin trays

Wooden spoon

2x large bowl

Whisk

Electric mixer

5x bowl- (normal size)

Toothpick

Step 1: Preheat an oven to 175°. Line two 12 cup muffin pans with paper baking cups. Stir together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt in a large bowl. Whisk together the milk, vegetable oil, and vanilla extract in a separate bowl until evenly blended; set aside.

Step 2:Beat the butter and sugar with an electric mixer in a large bowl until light and fluffy. The mixture should be noticeably lighter in colour. Add the room-temperature eggs one at a time, allowing each egg to blend into the butter mixture before adding the next. Pour in the flour mixture alternately with the milk mixture, mixing until just incorporated.

Step 3: Divide the cake batter into four separate bowls. Add a few drops of food colouring into one bowl of batter and stir; add more food colouring, if necessary, to reach the desired shade. Repeat with the remaining colours and bowls of batter.

Step 4: Using a different spoon for each colour batter, spoon a small spoonful of each colour into the cupcake liners, until 1/2 to 3/4 full. Do not mix the batter once it is in the cupcake liner. Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the cake comes clean, about 15 to 20 minutes.