Best Cupcake with buttercream Recipe :)

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...)

1. Firstly, preheat oven at 190c/375f/gas mark 5
2. In a large bowl, mix together the softened butter and sugar. A butter I think is gteat for baking it lurpack, especially lurpack lightest!
3. Then add the flour, baking powder and eggs. Mix together well and then add the splash of milk.
4. 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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