Rainbow Cupcakes
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Serves: 12
 
Ingredients
  • *For The Cakes*
  • 150g unsalted butter
  • 150g self raising flour
  • 150g caster sugar
  • 3 eggs
  • 1 tsp vanilla essence
  • 2 tubes of smarties
  • *For The Buttercream*
  • 100g unslated butter
  • 200g icing sugar
  • 1 tsp vanilla essence
  • *For The Toppings*
  • 12 small gold chocolate coins
  • 1 pack of mini white chocolate marshmallows
  • Renshaws Ready To Roll Icing - I used blue, green, orange, red and yellow
Instructions
  1. Pre heat the oven to 180oC / 160oC (fan)
  2. Line a muffin tray with 12 paper cases
  3. Cream together the butter and sugar until soft ansd creamy
  4. Add the eggs, vanilla extract and 1 tbsp of the flour and beat together until light and airy (about 2 mins)
  5. Fold in the flour and then add the smarties and mix
  6. Divide the batter between the cake cases
  7. Cook in the oven for about 20 minutes until cooked right through
  8. Remove from the oven and allow to cool completely
  9. Make your buttercream by beating the butter to make it soft and then carefully add the icing sugar and vanilla essence and beat to make a soft buttercream
  10. Place in a piping bag or you can spread the buttercream onto the cakes if you prefer
  11. Top each cupcake with the buttercream
  12. Top the buttercream with the marshmallows - as many as you can fit on
  13. Add a gold chocolate coin to one side of each cake at the top
  14. Then make your rainbows - literally by rolling 12 strips of each colour icing into worms and then make your arcs as per my photo - although with hindsight thicker worms may have been better
  15. Place them over the marshmallows so that one end touches the gold coin
  16. Then they are ready to enjoy
Recipe by Mummy Mishaps at http://www.mummymishaps.co.uk/2014/03/rainbow-cupcakes.html