pastel love

Right now I'm currently loving pastel colours, especially with all the cute and refreshing outfits popping up everywhere for the summer. I'd seen people make rainbow cupcakes but I thought the colour was too intense so I thought I'd try these cute pastel colours. The vanilla cupcake recipe is one that I've used in my family since I was a child, it's a recipe that my aunt came up with.

Recipe

Cupcakes

175g butter
150g sugar
225g self raising flour
4 eggs
1tsp vanilla extract
Food dye - I prefer using Wilton food gel over water based dyes as it tends to make your mixture too runny.


1. Preheat oven to 180C
2. Cream butter until light and pale in colour. Add sugar and mix until combined.
3. Add one egg at a time, continually beating gently. After last egg is added, add vanilla extract.
4. Divide the batter evenly into different bowls and a different dye to each. 
5. Spoon the coloured batter evenly into patty pans. Then use a metal skewer and twirl the colours to get a marble effect.