The rainbow connection

I wish I could claim this idea as my own but I spotted them last week on Spearmint Baby and instantly knew I had to make them for our zoo trip.

I was so excited by them I wouldn't let any of the kids see them until I was time for them to be eaten and it was worth the wait to share the "magical cupcakes" with the kidlets.

I think this is something I'll be whipping out as much as possible even if it is only to maintain my "cool mum/aunty" status.

You could use any basic vanilla cupcake recipe but I wanted to have chocolate in there somewhere so I used the following recipe I found at Best Recipes

White Chocolate Mud Cake

250g butter

250g white chocolate

200 ml water

1 1/2 cups caster sugar

1 3/4 cups plain flour

1 cup self-raising flour

2 eggs, lighly beaten

1/2 cup sour cream

1 tea spoon vanilla essence

ICING

125g butter

125g white chocolate, melted

3/4 cup icing sugar

1. Preheat oven to 150 c

2. Heat butter, sugar, chocolate and water in a saucepan over low heat until combined.

3. Sift both flours together and blend into chocolate mixture.

4. Stir in eggs, sour cream and vanilla.

5. Pour mixture into a deep 20 cm tin and cook for approx. 1-2 hours depending on oven.

6. ICING Cream together butter and icing sugar. Spread over cooled cake.

(7 See if you can stop at just one!)

I halved this because I wasn't sure how it would turn out and half of the above mixture made 12 normal size cupcakes. I didn't have any sour cream so I replaced that with yoghurt and they were still yum.

In between steps 4 & 5 I divided the mixture into 4 bowls and added a couple of drops of food colouring. Then drizzled them into the cupcake cases. Like instructed on spearmint baby I used a fork to help add the different layers. I cooked mine for about 45 minutes.

a couple of satisfied customers