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Yum Alert: The Ombre Trend in Cupcake Form

Written by emilyc

Are you one of the people who failed to adopt ombre hair at the advent of the trend? Not to worry. Let cupcakes make the ombre commitment for you. Here’s how:

(Recipe and image via Somewhere Splendid)

CAKE

2¾ cups cake flour

1⅔ cups sugar

¾ teaspoon salt

1 tablespoon baking powder

12 tablespoons (1½ sticks) softened unsalted butter, cut into ½ sticks

4 large egg whites, plus 1 whole egg

1 cup whole milk

3 teaspoons vanilla

food coloring

FROSTING

24 tablespoons (3 sticks) softened unsalted butter

3½ cups sifted confectioners’ sugar

3 tablespoons milk

1 tablespoon vanilla extract

Add the dry ingredients together in the bowl of a stand mixer and combine on a slow speed until well blended.

Add the softened butter, one half stick at a time, allowing the butter to combine before adding the next. With the mixer set at slow, add one egg white at a time, followed by the whole egg, scraping down the sides and ensuring each egg white is completely incorporated before the next addition.

In a small separate bowl, whisk to combine the milk and vanilla extract. Add the milk and vanilla mixture to bowl of the mixer in small portions, allowing the mixer to combine the liquid completely before continuing. Scrape down the sides of the bowl again, and continue to beat for an additional minute or two until the batter is fluffy.

Divide the batter into three equal, smaller batches. Add food coloring as desired, blending well between each drop, until you have three separate color tones (my batches used 4, 7, and 11 drops of food coloring). Spoon a small amount of your darkest batter into each liner, repeating with the middle and then lightest batter until each cupcake liner is filled ⅔ of the way up.

Preheat your oven to 350ºF. Bake for 16 – 18 minutes, or until a toothpick just comes out clean, so as not to overbake. Set aside to cool.

 For frosting preparations instructions, click here.

About the author

emilyc

Emily is a New Yorker trapped in a Floridian's body and loves every minute of her big city life. With a major in international business and years of being surrounded by ill-fitting suits and all the wrong shoes, she learned that the importance of fashion needs to be communicated to the world. To her, fashion is on the same level as charity work and feeding hungry children. Emily can be found frolicking the streets of her gayborhood enjoying the off-color humor of the gays.

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