vanilla cupcakes
- Preparation and cooking time
- Prep:
- Cook:
- Plus cooling time
- Easy
- Makes 12 cakes
Ingredients
Cake batter
- 175g caster sugar
- 175g of softened, unsalted butter/baking butter
- 175g of sieved self raising flour
- 3 medium eggs
- 1/2 a teaspoon of vanilla extract
Buttercream
- 175g caster sugar
- 175g of softened, unsalted butter/baking butter
- 175g of sieved self raising flour
- 3 medium eggs
- 1/2 a teaspoon of vanilla extract
- 300g of sieved icing sugar
- 100g of unsalted butter
- if your buttercream is not mixing, then add a dash of milk
Method
- STEP 1Preheat the oven to 200C, 180 fan oven and gas mark 6. Line a 12 hole cupcake tin with cupcake cases.
- STEP 2Cream together your butter and sugar until combined.
- STEP 3Add in 1 egg and 1/3 of your flour. Repeat this step until you have no eggs or flour left. Mix until it is all combined.
- STEP 4Put an even amount of mixture into the oven for 20 minutes or until a skewer comes out clean.
- STEP 5While the cakes are cooling, make the buttercream by: mixing together the butter and icing sugar until combined. If it is not mixing well and is going rough, then add a splash of milk.
- STEP 6Pipe/spread your icing across the cakes. Make sure you get an even layer of buttercream.
- STEP 7Now you can enjoy your cupcake. :)
