Rainbow Cupcakes for the Fun Fair

Yesterday Miss E's school hosted a fun fair. It was a beautiful day. Not a cloud in the sky. I volunteered to do face painting for a few hours while Mr T took Miss E around to blow money on toys and candy she didn't need to raise money for the school. It was a lot of fun. I did a lot of butterflies and saw lots of smiles from the kids when I was finished. Both Mr T and I ended up with some wicked sun burns. He on his freshly shaved head and me on my left arm. We're quite a pair.

For the fun fair, I also make a couple dozen rainbow cupcakes for the bake sale.

Fortunately I was able to get an extra 1/2 dozen from the recipe so that we could sample some today and to allow me to get a picture of the inside of the cupcake. I divided the batter into four containers and dyed one with electric pink, electric yellow, electric green and electric blue. From the picture I could have used more electric green for the colour to stand out better. For the icing I used plain vanilla butter cream dotted with some matching dragees.

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