Week 23. Tony Awards Rainbow Cupcakes

For the Tony's party, we wanted to make themed food...unfortunately, we were lazy and/or uncreative. All we could come up with was rainbow...we love gay people! So, there ya go...



Rainbow Cupcakes

3/4 cup Self-Rising Flour
3/4 cup Granulated Sugar
3/4 cup Unsalted Butter, Softened
2 Eggs
1 1/2 tsp Vanilla
3 tbs Milk
Red, Blue, Green, and Yellow Food Coloring


Start by pre-heating your oven to 395 degrees.

In a large mixing bowl, use whisk to beat sugar into butter until creamy and fluffy. The mixture should be light in color.

Slowly stir in eggs and flour, making sure each is thouroughly stirred in. Mix in Vanilla.

Stir in milk 1 tablespoon at a time, stirring thoroughly after each tablespoon is added.

Divide mixture evenly into each of the smaller bowls.


Add food coloring in this manner:
Bowl 1- 8 drops red
Bowl 2- 8 drops yellow, 4 drops red
Bowl 3- 8 drops yellow
Bowl 4- 8 drops green
Bowl 5- 8 drops blue
Bowl 6- 8 drops blue, 4 drops red

Mix well until colors are evenly distributed.
Colors are as follows:
Bowl 1- Red
Bowl 2- Orange
Bowl 3- Yellow
Bowl 4- Green
Bowl 5- Blue
Bowl 6- Purple.

Line muffin pan with muffin cups. Starting with purple, spoon batter evenly into each of the muffin cups, spreadng slightly. Continue, layering, with blue, then green, then yellow, then orange, then red.


Bake for 20 minutes at 395 degrees.

Makes 12 regular-sized cupcakes.



For cream cheese frosting:

8oz cream cheese
1/4 cup butter
1 cup confectioner's sugar
1/2 tsp. vanilla extract

Mix cream cheese and butter. Mix in vanilla. Slowly add confectioner's sugar.

**Hannah's Hints**

* These are so yummy! Carly said that all the colors taste different and blue is the best...but supposedly they are all supposed to be just vanilla-tasting. Just like blue M&M's taste the best...

* I bought blue raspberry, watermelon, and yellow sprinkles to put on top. They were yummmm and added a fun little pop to the vanilla taste.

* Although Carly and I were terribly hateful during the Tony's this year (we were so disappointed that the Tony voters chose Scarlett Johannson and Catherine Zeta-Jones...did you SEE that performance of "Send in the Clowns"???), we loved these cupcakes as much as we loved Sean Hayes and his bits with Kristin Chenoweth, as well as Bebe Neuwirth and Nathan Lane.

* Other people might recognize thse as "clown vomit"...ew. I dislike the words vomit and barf. "Throw-up" would be better. Anyway, rainbow is the best. Make these.

* We didn't follow the color scheme that the recipe called for...we were much more creative and it was lots of fun!