Green Monday Blues

So, today is Green Monday (the first day of Lent) here in Cyprus. Traditionally we (cypriots) take to the fields this day, and eat shellfish prepared on the bbq, and vegetables. Today though, it is raining (so all the fields will be swampy) and we have decided to make food at home. The children are a little upset that their picnic (and kite flying) has been called off, so i came up with the idea of making rainbow cupcakes :) My daughter forund a video tutorial and told me that we just HAD to make them :)

Take your favourite cupcake recipe (or mix) and make it up. We used the basic cupcake recipes from Isa Chandra Moscowitz's "vegan cupcakes rule the world" (1 cup soy milk, 1 teaspoon apple cider vine, 3/4 cup sugar, 1/3 cup vegetable oil, 1/2 teaspoon almond extract, 2 teaspoon vanilla extract, 1 cup plain flour, 3./4 teaspoon baking soda, 1/2 teaspoon baking powder, 1/4 teaspoon salt). I (when i say I, i mean my lovely assistant ) put the dry ingredients into the bowl

and added the wet ingredients, and mix it up, into a nice batter.

Then, i seperated the mixture into 4(thats the number of food colouring bottles i had) seperate ziplock bags and added enough food colouring to colour the whole bag of mix.

Next I snipped off one corner of each bag, and layered the different coloured mixes into the lined cupcake trays.Be creative - i did a few different ones, but the bullseye one was my daughters favourite :)

Then into the oven at 180C for 18 minutes or so (quicker if you use a fan oven) Check them, by inserting a toothpick- if it comes out clean-they are done!

I frosted them with a quick and easy frosting-1/2 cup of dairy free butter, 1/2 cup of vegetable lard, 3.5 cups icing sugar. It should be thick, so you can put it in a piping bag. Put swirls of frosting on each cupcake, and then sprinkle with hundreds and thousands..






Yummy! It's heaven in a bite, and just the pick me up we needed today!