Tri-Coloured Cupcakes:Republic Day Special

This year, embrace Republic Day in a modern avatar by trying your hand at these colourful cupcakes by Mumbai based gourmet baker, Ayushi Shah

For the cupcakes

Ingredients

250g flour

50g cocoa powder
200g condensed milk
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 cup soft butter
100ml water

Method
1. Sift dry ingredients together.
2. Combine flour, condensed milk, and water in a bowl and whisk well. 
4. Line 12 mini cupcake tins with cupcake lines and fill until half full. Bake for about 10-12 minutes (or until a tester comes out with moist crumbs stuck to it) in a preheated oven at 180 degrees celcius. 
5. Remove, de-mould, cool.

For the Butter Cream

Ingredients
100g salted yellow butter
200g icing sugar, seived

Green and ornage gel colours

Method

1. Whip butter until pale yellow.
2. Add the icing sugar in three additions and whisk well, untill smooth and you have a pipable consistency.

3. Divide the mixture into 3 bowls. Add green gel colour with a tooth pick in one bowl and orange in another. Mix both well. Make sure you use a little colour, more can be added later.
4. Pipe 4 cupcakes with the green buttercream icing, 4 with the orange and 4 with the white. 
5. Use blue sprinkles and top with the white iced cupcakes.