Today, i have reached a peak in my baking.
Today, my friend and I not only had a cookie/cupcake day reunion, but we also made RAINBOW EFFING CUPCAKES.

I'm feelin' pretty good about myself right now, not gonna lie.
I thought it was cool when I made homemade funfetti, but gosh this is even cooler!
They taste pretty good, considering the heaps of chemicals the food coloring must have added, but they look even more badass.
we made a whipped cream to top it with, because we didn't want to take away from the epic-ness of the cupcakes. The cupcake recipe is adapted from http://bakingbites.com/, and the whipped cream is from http://www.joyofbaking.com/.

Anyway, without any further ado, I give you... Kelsey and Erica's COSMIC CUPCAKES:



Cosmic Cupcakes (adapted from http://bakingbites.com/ Rainbow Cupcakes with Whipped Cream Topping:

CUPCAKES

2 Cup all purpose flour
3 Tsp. baking powder
1/2 Tsp. salt
1 Cup sugar
4 Large eggs
1 Cup vegetable oil
1 Cup buttermilk
2 Tsp. vanilla extract
red, yellow, green and blue food colorings




1. Preheat oven to 350F. Line cupcake tin with 20 with paper cups.
2. In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder and salt.
3. In a large bowl, whisk together sugar, eggs, vegetable oil, buttermilk and vanilla extract. Pour in dry ingredients and stir until just combined.
4. Divide batter evenly into 6 small bowls; each should have a little more than 2/3 cup batter (approx 6 tbsp or so for each).
5. Add about 15 tsp food coloring to each bowl to make red, orange, yellow, green blue and purple batters. Stir well, so no streaks of plain batter remain. Add additional food coloring if necessary.
6. Starting with the purple batter, add a small spoonful to each of the 20 muffin cups (just over 1/2 tbsp in each). Repeat with all remaining colors, working from blue to green to yellow to orange to red, adding each subsequent spoonful on top of the previous color. Do not attempt to spread the layers of color out (as it can cause layers to get combined), but allow them to spread on their own.
7. Bake for about 15 minutes, until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean. Cool cupcakes on a wire rack before frosting. Makes about 20.
*Note: We doubled this from the original recipe, and it actually only made about 18. Just sayin'.

WHIPPED CREAM:

1 Cup heavy whipping cream
1/2 Tsp. vanilla extract
1 Tbsp. granulated sugar

1. In a large mixing bowl place the whipping cream, vanilla extract, and sugar and stir to combine.
2. Cover and chill the bowl and wire whisk in the refrigerator for at least 30 minutes. When chilled, beat the mixture until stiff peaks form.


(Not the best picture of us, but meh, what can you do?)



Basically, even though my parents declared that the cupcakes "look like the fake food that kindergartners play with", Erica and I decided all our friends are going to love them and that the rainbow just makes them extremely kick ass.

I'm super happy right now. YAY! (Okay, maybe I ate too much of the batter when I was baking...)

Happy Sunday y'all.
Peace. Love. Rainbowcupcakes.