rainbow cupcake love.

Rainbow cupcakes are something that I've been trying to perfect for about a month and a half now - it took me three tries to get it right and four tries to perfect it. My little sister says she's not sick of cupcakes butttt I feel like that might be coming any day now.

My first try was really cute but not at all what I wanted. Different colors, yes. Rainbow, no. More like a tie dye monstrosity of cuteness.

The second try was no better. Instead of orange I used purple for my fifth color, and it ended up looking for the most part like a dinosaur. Bummer.

The third try was when I really figured it out. I decided to try a different cake recipe entirely, and because I was a little nervous I only used four colors. As a result these cupcakes kind of look like legos, but were super successful in the stripy department.

The fourth attempt was a true success - SIX DIFFERENT COLORS - all beautiful and perfect the way I wanted them. I am the winner.

And here is the recipe:

Ingredients:

• 1 cup white sugar
• 1/2 cup butter
• 2 eggs
• 2 tsps vanilla extract
• 1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
• 1 3/4 tsps baking powder
• 1/2 cup milk
• food coloring

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees
• Line muffin tins - makes about 12 cupcakes
• Cream butter and sugar together (use the kitchenaid mixer, for realz)
• Beat in eggs one at a time
• Stir in vanilla
• Combine flour and baking powder in a separate bowl
• Add flour and baking powder to the butter, sugar, eggs, vanilla - mix well
• Stir in milk until batter is smooth
• Separate batter equally into 6 (or more, or less?) small bowls
• Add food coloring until desired color is reached
• Layer batter one color at a time into cupcake tins
• Bake 20-25 minutes or until done

Yummm.