Ingredients
- CUPCAKES
- 1 cup all purpose flour
- 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 1/2 cup vegetable oil or melted butter
- 1/2 cup buttermilk
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- Red, yellow, blue and green food coloring
- FROSTING
- 1/2 butter, room temp
- 3 tbs milk
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 3 About 3 cups confectioner's sugar
Preparation
Step 1
CUPCAKES
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease 10 cups from a 12 cup muffin tin or line with paper liners. In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder and salt
2. In a large bowl, whisk together sugar, eggs, vegetable oil, buttermilk and vanilla extract. Pour in dry ingredients and stir until just combined
3. Divide batter evenly into 5 small bowls, each should have a little more than 1/3 cup batter (about 6 tbsp or so)
4. Add 1/2 tsp food coloring to each bowl to make red, orange, yellow, green and blue batters. Stir well so no streaks of plain batter remain. Add additional food coloring if necessary
5. Starting with the blue batter, add a small spoonful to each of the 10 muffin cups (just over 1/2 tbs in each). Repeat with all remaining colors, working from green to yellow to orange to red, adding each subsequent spoonful on top of the previous color. Do not attempt to spread the layers of color out (as it can cause layers to combine), but allow them to spread on their own
6. Bake for about 15 minutes, until toothpick comes out clean
FROSTING
1. In a large bowl, beat together butter, milk and vanilla. Gradually add in the confectioner's sugar until frosting reaches a thick, spreadable consistency
2. Pipe or spread frosting on cooled cupcakes