Rainbow Cupcakes

Rainbow Cupcakes

Ingredients:

3/4 cup (1-1/2 sticks) unsalted butter
2 cups sugar
3 eggs
1 Tablespoon vanilla
2-1/2 cups cake flour
1-1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon kosher salt
1 cup whole milk
gel food coloring (red, orange, yellow, blue, purple)
mascarpone frosting

Instructions:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Prep a cupcake pan with liners.

In a medium bowl, whisk the cake flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt in a bowl. Set aside.

Cream the butter and sugar until fluffy. Carefully add the eggs one at a time until incorporated, then add the vanilla. Alternate the milk and the dry ingredients.

Once the batter has come together, separate it evenly into 5 small bowls.

I like gel food coloring best because you don’t need a lot and it doesn’t change the taste or texture of the cake. Add the food coloring, one color to each bowl stirring until incorporated.

By the Tablespoonful add the colors one by one into the liners. I go with the colors of the rainbow and start with purple, then move to blue, yellow, orange…

…and then finally red. Bake for approx 15 minutes depending on your oven.

Let cool on a wire rack and then frost with mascarpone frosting.