Cupcake Recipe
Vanilla Cupcake Recipe
Delicious little cupcakes without much effort. The hardest thing about this vanilla cupcake recipe is deciding what colour icing to use! Decorate the cupcakes with sprinkles, edible glitter balls, anything you want – great for parties and also occasions like Halloween when you can buy lots of ghouls and ghosties for the top! Children will love making these with you.
Vanilla Cupcake Recipe Tips
- Slice a small top off the cakes and fill with icing, then replace the ‘lid’, so you have butterfly cakes.
- Use chocolate buttons as a decoration or crystallised fruits, as a change from sprinkles.
- You can add a small amount of chocolate chips to the mixture before baking, but ensure that you mix them in well.
- Don’t be tempted to open the oven before at least 10 minutes into cooking ” your cakes will lose air and be quite flat!
- Serves: 12 cupcakes
- Preparation Time: 10 minutes
- Cooking Time: 15 minutes
Ingredients:
- 110grams/4oz butter or margarine softened
- 110grams/4oz caster sugar
- 2 eggs, beaten
- 1 tsp of vanilla extract
- 100grams/4oz self-raising flour
Butter Icing Ingredients
- 140grams/5oz butter, softened
- 280grams/10oz icing sugar
- 1-2 tbs of milk
- Food colouring as desired
Directions:
- Preheat your oven to 180C.
- Line a 12-hole muffin tin with paper cases.
- Cream butter and sugar together until pale. Beat eggs in a little at a time. Stir in the vanilla extract.
- Fold in the flour, add a drop of the milk and mix until the mixture drops off a spoon.
- Spoon the mix into the cases, filling to just over half way up. Bake for 10-15 minutes or until the cakes are golden brown and a skewer inserted into one of the cakes comes out clean.
- Remove from the oven and cool on a wire rack.
- Beat the butter for the icing until smooth and then add the icing sugar until smooth and creamy. If you think the mix is too thick, add a touch of the remaining milk.
- When the cakes are completely cool, mix your icing with a drop of the food colouring and pipe the icing in a circular motion on to the cakes. Top with a variety of decorations, if desired.
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