Girly Pastel Tri-Coloured Swirl Vanilla Cupcakes

Triple Coloured Cupcake Swirl Recipe

Triple Coloured Cupcake Swirl Recipe

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Prep Time: 20 mins

Cook Time: 20 mins

Yield: 12 cupcakes

Overly girlie, triple coloured swirl vanilla cupcakes. Pastel shades of pink and lilac with white complimentary colours. Sure to make any princess proud.

Ingredients:

  • 150g (5½ oz) butter, softened
  • 150g (5½ oz) caster sugar
  • 150g (5½ oz) self-raising flour
  • 3 medium eggs
  • ½ tsp vanilla extract

Directions:

  1. Preheat your oven to 140°C, 275°F, gas mark 1. Line a tin with 12 cupcake cases.
  2. Beat the butter and sugar together with the vanilla extract until the mixture becomes light and fluffy.
  3. Add the eggs gradually, beating well between each.
  4. Sift the flour, add to the mixture and mix carefully until just combined.
  5. Remove the bowl from the mixer and fold gently through with a spatula. Evenly spoon or pipe the mixture into the bases.
  6. Bake for around 20 minutes or until a skewer inserted into the centre of one of the cupcakes comes out clean.
  7. Allow cupcakes to cool thoroughly before decorating. Decorate as desired.
  8. For the triple coloured buttercream swirl, I made some buttercream, divided into 3, coloured 2 with a teeny bit of red to create the pink, and the same for the lilac with a teeny bit of violet. I then put the frosting on some plastic wrap and rolled it, sealed one end with a knot (repeat for all colours) then put the 3 different coloured wrapped frosting inside an icing/pastry bag and fitted my nozzle and piped away. Voila! Triple colours in one piping bag.

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9 Comments on “Girly Pastel Tri-Coloured Swirl Vanilla Cupcakes”

  1. Vera Zecevic – Cupcakes Garden November 5, 2012 @10:45 pm Reply

    These cupcakes are absolutely amazing! I'm delighted with your frosting. I've featured this recipes on my blog! I hope you don't mind! If you don't agree with that please contact me and I will remove it. All the best.

  2. Vera Zecevic – Cupcakes Garden November 5, 2012 @10:45 pm Reply

    These cupcakes are absolutely amazing! I'm delighted with your frosting. I've featured this recipes on my blog! I hope you don't mind! If you don't agree with that please contact me and I will remove it. All the best.

  3. Jennifer Crewe January 3, 2013 @6:45 am Reply

    These cupcakes look amazing. I am having a mental blank about the frosting though. I just can't picture what you are telling me to do. Don't the different colours get mixed together when rolled in the plastic wrap. In my mind i just see a mixed up mess. I know i am not understanding something properly. Maybe you could email me if youhave a moment with further information or pictures. Thanks very much.

    1. Lisa {Sweet 2 Eat Baking} January 4, 2013 @12:47 am Reply

      I've emailed you a detailed explanation, Jennifer.

      Thanks for stopping by.

  4. Jennifer Crewe January 3, 2013 @6:45 am Reply

    These cupcakes look amazing. I am having a mental blank about the frosting though. I just can't picture what you are telling me to do. Don't the different colours get mixed together when rolled in the plastic wrap. In my mind i just see a mixed up mess. I know i am not understanding something properly. Maybe you could email me if youhave a moment with further information or pictures. Thanks very much.

    1. Lisa {Sweet 2 Eat Baking} January 4, 2013 @12:47 am Reply

      I've emailed you a detailed explanation, Jennifer.

      Thanks for stopping by.

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