Plain Old Vanilla

I made five cupcakes today, just five. I wanted to try something I had read about somewhere (cannot find where now) about coloring your own sugar to make sanding sugar. It only involved ordinary sugar and food coloring. For my own test, I used about 3 teaspoons of sugar, put it in a Ziploc bag and added one drop of yellow food coloring, mixed the sugar with my fingers (on the outside of the bag so my fingers wouldn’t get messy), then added one drop of red food coloring to make orange. When it was mixed, I poured out the sugar onto a paper towel and spread out the sugar so it could dry. The end result was exactly what I wanted. Thus, today this cupcake was born…

A plain vanilla cupcake with plain vanilla frosting (tinted orange as well, with yellow and red food coloring), sprinkled with the colored sugar that I made.