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My godson Shan had just celebrated his 2nd birthday, and as a gift I made rainbow and chocolate monkey (recipe on the next post) cupcakes for his dessert buffet.

Rainbow Cupcakes
Ingredients:
1 and 1/4 c. plus 1 tbsp. of cake flour
1 tsp. of salt
3/4 c. of vegetable oil
3/4 c. of sugar
1 large egg
1/2 c. of buttermilk
1 tsp. vanilla extract (optional)
3/4 tsp. of baking soda
1 tsp. of white vinegar
food colors

How to:
- Line a 12-hole muffin pan with cupcake liners
- Preheat the oven to 350F 
- Sift together the flour and salt.
- Beat the oil and sugar. Add the egg and beat until incorporated.
- Add the flour and buttermilk alternately by thirds mixing well after each addition. If using vanilla extract, stir it in.
- Mix together the baking soda and vinegar (it will fizzle). Add to the cake batter and mix in.
- divide into 4 bowls, color batter with food color 
- alternately pour colored batter into muffin pan and bake for 15-17 minutes or until toothpick inserted comes out clean
- frost with whipped cream or white buttercream frosting

cupcakes with white frosting and candy sprinkles
with rainbow streaked white frosting


These colorful cupcakes are perfect for parties!

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