Rainbow cupcakes with whipped cream frosting

It was my son’s girlfriend’s birthday today and she requested rainbow cupcakes for afternoon tea.

Happy birthday, D! 🙂

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Makes 10

Ingredients

1 1/2 cups cake flour (see note below)
1 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
3/4 cup sugar
80g butter, room temperature
1/2 cup milk
2 egg whites
food colouring

1/2 cup heavy cream
1/4 cup powdered sugar

Directions

Preheat oven to 190°C. Line a muffin tin with 10 paper cupcake liners, or place silicon liners on a baking sheet.

Sift flour, baking powder and salt together into a bowl.

In another bowl, cream sugar and butter until fluffy. Add milk and egg white and beat well, until smooth.

Fold in dry ingredients into wet until just combined.

Divide mixture into small bowls, as many as colours you are using. Add colouring to each, stirring in well.

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Spoon colours into cupcake liners in layers until about 2/3 full, about 1 heaped teaspoon of each coloured batter per liner. Bake for 18 – 21 minutes, until a toothpick comes out clean.

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Cool completely on a wire rack before frosting.

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Sift the powdered sugar into the cream and whip until stiff peaks form. Spoon or pipe onto cooled cupcakes.

Note: To make your own cake flour, measure 2 tablespoons cornflour (cornstarch) into the cup before filling with all purpose (plain) flour. For this recipe you would use 3 tablespoons cornflour (cornstarch) in total.

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14 Responses to Rainbow cupcakes with whipped cream frosting

D. says:

August 26, 2012 at 22:03

Thank you so much mother-in-law ❤

- pizzarossa says:
  
  August 28, 2012 at 06:35
  
  You’re welcome 🙂
  
Rosemary Campbell says:

August 27, 2012 at 00:49

They look absolutely fairy-like – gorgeous! Wish her a happy birthday for us too, please! R&H

- pizzarossa says:
  
  August 28, 2012 at 06:36
  
  Message passed on! 🙂
  
Dea says:

August 28, 2012 at 01:34

Whoa! These are adorable! I love the colors you’ve used!

- pizzarossa says:
  
  August 28, 2012 at 06:37
  
  Thank you so much! I was originally going to try for bold colours but it would have required far too much colouring. I think the pastels worked well 🙂
  
  I love your blog – so many pretty things! 🙂
  
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Jenia Sanguinetti-Balysheva says:

September 6, 2012 at 20:18

Wow!!!! This is amazing!!! I should try this for Ilya’s birthday!!

- pizzarossa says:
  
  September 7, 2012 at 05:59
  
  You should! They’re not hard but a lot of fun 🙂
  
Sara says:

September 24, 2012 at 03:59

I LOVE these – so cute!!!

- pizzarossa says:
  
  September 25, 2012 at 16:38
  
  Thanks so much 🙂
  
Anne says:

October 11, 2012 at 19:04

How cute and colorful! 🙂

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