Rainbow cupcakes.

End Result

I'd searched around looking at recipes for rainbow cakes and have wanted to try them for SO long (I adore this cake by MyJuiceCup, although I fear a little too sickly sweet looking...) and I ended up sort of, well, winging it.

I made a simple vanilla cake batter* and divided it into 4 bowls, then coloured each separately. I poured a small amount of batter into the bottom of each mini silicone cupcake mold and popped them in the oven for 10-15mins.

Once they were cooled I trimmed the edges to straighten each mini-cake, then used a pink buttercream icing to stick a cake of each colour on top of each other. I left the little stacks to harden, then used the rest of the icing to completely cover the cakes and topped with sugar lump sprinkles.

I let these to cool in the fridge for a couple of hours to harden the icing a little before serving.

*This is an absolutely fail-proof recipe for any beginners.