Start by preheating the oven to 350 degrees

Next, use the cupcake liners and line the pan.

Add in the butter and sugar into mixing bowl and mix until creamy.

Next, you're going to mix in the eggs, one at a time

Once the eggs are mixed, mix in the vanilla extract

Grab a separate bowl, and start to combine the flour and baking powder. Once that is done, add the mixture to the wet ingredients and mix well.

Then, add in the milk and blend well.

Start to spoon the batter into the muffin cups. But only fill to ¼ inch from the top.

Put in the oven and bake for about 25 minutes.

Once they are done baking, remove them from the pan and let cool on a wire rack

Grab a large mixing bowl and cream together the butter and sugar until fluffy

Once that is done, take and add in the extract and mix

Slowly add in the powdered sugar, mixing on medium speed

Then, it's time to add in the milk and blend well

Take and divide the icing into three bowls. Also, remove and set aside about ¼ cups of icing from each bowl for the white stars.

Next, you're going to add in the blue food coloring to one of the larger bowls and then also add in the red food coloring to the other.

Once that is done, take and fill one of the piping bags with blue and the other one with red.

Attach to the multi-color coupler according to the instructions that are listed on the package. Once done, take and pipe the multi-color swirl and have fun!

With the white icing, put it into a piping bag and add a star on top of the cupcakes.