🧁Ingredients🧁

1 cup butter, softened

2 1/3 cups sugar

4 eggs

1 tablespoon vanilla

3 cups flour

4 teaspoons baking powder

1/2 teaspoon salt

1 1/2 cups milk , warmed for 30 sec in microwave to bring to room temp

Rainbow colors of Gel food coloring

1 cup butter (2 sticks), softened

4 cups powdered sugar , sifted

1 tablespoon clear vanilla (if you use normal vanilla it will not be as white, but will be just as delicious)

tiny pinch salt

3 tablespoons milk

🧁Directions🧁

Add in the dry ingredients and the milk alternating 1 cup of flour and 1/2 cup of milk at a time.

Add one cup of the batter to 6 different bowls.

Color each bowl with your gel food coloring in red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple.

Mix until the colors are fully combined.

Your choice here: Spoon or ziploc bags.

Either add the batter to 6 sandwich size ziploc bags and pipe just enough to make a thin layer of each color (maybe 1/4 inch tall batter layers)

OR

with a small spoon, spoon just under a tablespoon of batter into each cup.

Start with purple, then blue, then green, then yellow, then orange and finally red.

Bake for 18-20 minutes.

To make the frosting:

Whip the butter in your stand mixer with your paddle attachment(I LOVE LOVE LOVE this one with a built in scraper) until you see the butter is lighter in color (1 minute).

Add in the vanilla.

Add in the powdered sugar in 1 cup increments with the milk 1 tablespoon at a time, ending with powdered sugar.

Mix on high for 1 minute after each addition.

Your frosting should be SUPER light and fluffy, just like a delicious vanilla cloud.

Using a closed star tip and decorating bag, pipe your frosting onto the cooled cupcakes.

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