rainbow (or neopolitan) cupcakes
Made these with a group of primary school children. They really enjoyed creating the colours but don't let them mix too much at that stage or the cupcakes loose their light texture. Option : Leave out the colourings & make lemon cupcakes by adding grated lemon zest & topping with lemon icing.
yield
12 serving(s)
prep time
30 Min
cook time
20 Min
method
Bake
Ingredients For rainbow (or neopolitan) cupcakes
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1 cwhite sugar
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113 gbutter
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2eggs
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2 tspvanilla extract
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1 1/2 cflour (then take 2 tablespoons out)
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2 Tbspcornflour
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1 3/4 tspbaking powder
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3/4 cmilk
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1 tspwhite vinegar
How To Make rainbow (or neopolitan) cupcakes
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1Preheat over to 180 C & line muffin pans with paper liners. Mix the cup of milk & teaspoon of vinegar together & set aside. In a medium bowl, cream together the sugar and butter. This needs to be beaten really well.. 6-8 minutes.. until really creamy Beat in the eggs, one at a time, beating well again for about 5 minutes. Stir in the vanilla
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2Sift flour, cornflour, salt and baking powder together. Add dry ingredients to the creamed mixture alternately with milk (a bit of flour, a bit of milk, a bit of flour, a bit of milk..) mix well. Stir until batter is smooth. Divide batter into 4 or more equal portions in separate bowls. Colour each a different colour with food colouring &/or cocoa.
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3Spoon mix into the prepared pan/cases, putting one teaspoonful of each colour per case. Start with one colour & do all 12 then add next colour, etc. Bake for approx. 20 minutes or until cupcakes spring back to the touch. Ice tops & decorate as desired
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