BBC Food - Recipes - Rainbow cupcakes

Ingredients

• 240g/8½oz plain flour
• 240g/8½oz golden caster sugar
• 3 tsp baking powder
• pinch of salt
• 80g/2¾oz unsalted butter , at room temperature
• 240ml/8½fl oz whole milk
• 2 medium free-range eggs
• ½ tsp pure vanilla extract
• 4 food colourings of your choice (such as red, yellow, green and blue)
• 250g/9oz unsalted butter , room temperature
• 500g/1lb 2oz icing sugar
• 2 tsp vanilla extract
• multi-coloured hundred and thousands
• 24 glacé cherries