Colorful Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting Recipe
 
 
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Ingredients
  • 2 cups all purpose flour
  • 1 ½ cups sugar
  • 3 tsp baking powder
  • ½ tsp salt
  • ½ cup shortening
  • 1 cup low fat milk
  • 1 tsp pure vanilla extract
  • 4 egg whites
  • Food coloring (whichever colors you desire)
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
  2. Combine dry ingredients in the bowl of a stand mixer; add shortening, milk and vanilla. Attach bowl and flat beater attachment and mix on speed 2 for 1 minute. Scrape bowl with a spatula, then add egg whites and mix on speed 6 for an additional minute. The high speed mixing adds air to the batter to make the cupcakes light and fluffy.
  3. Remove from mixer and divide batter into different bowls (decide how many colors you’d like in order to determine how many dyes and bowls you’ll need), to each bowl of batter add 10-15 drops of dye (1 color per bowl), mix thoroughly (add more dye until the desired color is reached in each bowl).
  4. Line #2 12-cup muffin pans with paper liners or spray with Baker’s Joy and layer in colored batter as desired. If you spread out each color one on top of the other you’ll create a nice rainbow effect, if you spoon them in randomly they create a fun splatter effect of colors throughout the cupcake, or use a butter knife or toothpick to swirl it through the mix to make a colorful marbled effect!
  5. Bake for 15-20 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean!
  6. Cool before frosting.
Notes
Start with 10-15 drops of dye to begin and add more until desired color is achieved.
Recipe by How to Have it All at https://www.howtohaveitall.net/colorful-cupcakes-cream-cheese-frosting-recipe/