{"id":4989,"date":"2011-03-17T15:23:14","date_gmt":"2011-03-17T15:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.priddybooks.com\/?p=4989"},"modified":"2011-03-17T15:23:14","modified_gmt":"2011-03-17T15:23:14","slug":"rainbow-cupcakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/priddybooks.com\/gb\/fun_stuff\/rainbow-cupcakes\/","title":{"rendered":"Rainbow cupcakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4991\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4991\" style=\"width: 319px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4991\" title=\"Rainbow Cupcakes - credit: bakingbites.com\" src=\"https:\/\/d2kn1zwrh98jbi.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/rainbows.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"329\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/priddybooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/rainbows.jpg 329w, https:\/\/priddybooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/rainbows-250x266.jpg 250w, https:\/\/priddybooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/rainbows-120x128.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 329px) 100vw, 329px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4991\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">photo credit: bakingbites.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"line-height: 35px; font-size: 23px; color: #000000;\">Ingredients<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>200 g butter<\/li>\n<li>200 g caster sugar<\/li>\n<li>4 eggs<\/li>\n<li>200 g self-raising flour<\/li>\n<li>2 tsp of vanilla essence<\/li>\n<li>red, orange, yellow, green and blue food colouring<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 35px; font-size: 23px; color: #000000;\">For the icing<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>450 g icing sugar<\/li>\n<li>200 g butter<\/li>\n<li>2 tablespoons of water<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>How to make it<\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li>Mix the butter and sugar together until smooth. Add the eggs and mix well.\u00a0Gradually add the flour, then the vanilla essence.<\/li>\n<li>Divide the mixture into five bowls. Pour about 1\/2 tsp of food colouring into each bowl to make red, orange, yellow, green and blue cake mixture. Stir each bowl of mixture<br \/>\nso that the colour is well mixed in.<\/li>\n<li>Starting with the blue mixture, add a spoonful to your cupcake cases. Repeat with the green, yellow, orange and red icing, layering each on top of the last.<\/li>\n<li>Bake the cupcakes in a moderate oven for about 20 minutes \u2013 they are done when they rise up and spring back into shape when lightly pressed. Leave them to cool.<\/li>\n<li>For the icing, put the icing sugar in a large bowl. Cream the butter in a large bowl. Add this to the icing sugar and mix together well, adding the water gradually.\u00a0When the cupcakes are cool, spread a layer of icing over each one.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Celebrate St Patrick&#8217;s Day in technicolour, with these fab rainbow cupcakes. Makes 10 cupcakes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[114,154,224,226,487],"class_list":["post-4989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun_stuff","category-recipes","tag-children","tag-cupcakes","tag-fun-activity","tag-fun-recipes","tag-st-patricks-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/priddybooks.com\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/priddybooks.com\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/priddybooks.com\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/priddybooks.com\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/priddybooks.com\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/priddybooks.com\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/priddybooks.com\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/priddybooks.com\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/priddybooks.com\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}