Basic Cupcakes

Basic Cupcakes are really easy to make and you can even involve kids to help you make them. They will be delighted to decorate them and the recipe is easy peasy. Here's the recipe for simple cupcakes. You can have them on their own or decorate them with butter cream etc. I decorated them with a bit of buttercream and rice paper butterflies (kids loved the butterflies!)

Basic Cupcakes

Ingredients:
Butter: 110 gms
Caster sugar: 110 gms
Eggs: 2 (lightly beaten)
Vanilla Essence: 1 tsp
Self-raising Flour: 110 gms
Milk: 1-2 tbsp (depending on if you require it)

Buttercream icing:
Icing Sugar: 250 gms
Butter: 130 gms
Milk: a few drops

Method:

1. Pre heat the oven to 200 C.
2. In a bowl take butter and add caster sugar to it. Mix well. Then add eggs slowly and beat. Add the vanilla essence.
3. Fold in the flour using a spatula or large metal spoon. Mix little by little, until all the flour is folded into the mixture.
4. Add few drop of milk to make it of dropping consistency.
5. Put this mixture into the cup cake cases until they are half or 3/4th full.
6. Put these onto a baking tray or muffin tin.
7. Bake in the center of the oven for 10-15 minutes or until golden brown.
8.Once cooked removed from the oven and cool on a wire rack.
9. Make the butter creamicing by beating the butter in a bowl. Add half the icing sugar and beat well. Then add the remaining half and beat.
10. Add 1 tbsp of milk.
11.beat until it's creamy and smooth.
12. You can add a few drops of food colouring if you like.
13. Pipe the icing onto the cupcakes using a piping bag.

(I decorated these using rice paper edible butterflies that kids really liked! Sorry about the shape of the icing though as kids were involved here too !