This is one of the cupcakes I made last night :) I have used this recipe a few times now and it has produced light fluffy cupcakes. This recipe will make about 8 cupcakes - all depends on size of your bun cases.
By the way I have never taken any baking classes or anything, I just learnt of my grandma who is awesome at baking.
So ingrediants that you will need:
- Caster sugar 100g
- Butter (softened) 100g
- Self-raising Flour 100g
- 2 Large Eggs
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- About 15ml of Milk (I kind of just put in a splash so not sure on the amount...)
- Firstly, preheat oven at 190c/375f/gas mark 5
- In a large bowl, mix together the softened butter and sugar. A butter I think is gteat for baking it lurpack, especially lurpack lightest!
- Then add the flour, baking powder and eggs. Mix together well and then add the splash of milk.
- Then simply put the mixture into the bun cases. Fill the cases about 3/4. Then pop them in the oven and wait till they are a pretty golden brown.
Now while they are in the oven it is best to make the icing. Personally my favourite icing is
buttercream :) You can make buttercream thin or thick, colour it, add stuff too it. Its very exciting! (Ok... a little sad...)
For just normal butter cream (for about 8 - 10 cupcakes) soften 50g of butter. Next sieve the icing sugar into the butter, until you get the texture of buttercream you want. Not too thich but with a little texture is best.
In the cupcakes above I added 3 drops of pink food colouring, and a few drops of lemon juice (think I need a tiny bit more next time) but I will do a more detailed post about lemon cupcakes though, I was just messing around with ideas last night.
Hope you like this basic recipe :)
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