Baking Basics: Cupcakes

Happy Thursday!

I hope you all enjoyed The Great British Bake Off last night! I'm looking forward to catching up on it when I come back from South Africa.

I thought I'd share with you one of my favourite basic baking recipes: cupcakes.
They're so easy and they're certainly a crowd pleaser!

You can pretty much add any flavourings you want, how great is that? So this recipe makes 12 cupcakes, and enough icing to pipe a swirl on top! Simple!

Ingredients:
110g self raising flour, sieved
110g caster sugar
2 large eggs
110g softened butter

120g softened butter
250g icing sugar, sieved
1tbsp milk
1tsp vanilla essence

Method:
Pre-heat the oven to 170 degrees Celsius and line a cupcake tin with 12 cupcake cases.
Beat together the flour, butter eggs and sugar for two minutes, or until a golden batter is formed, it should be thick and fluffy.
Add any flavourings!
Split the mix into the twelve cases.
Bake for 12-15 minutes, or until golden brown and a skewer inserted to the centre comes out clean.

For the icing, beat together the butter and icing sugar until well combined. The mix should be smooth, thick and cream coloured. Add the milk if it seems to stiff to pipe; I almost always add the milk, just to make sure it is smooth enough to be able to pipe or spread with.
Add the vanilla essence or any other flavourings you'd like.

And there you have it! The simplest recipe known to mankind!

Just remember when adding any cocoa powder, to switch the same amount of icing sugar or flour (for example, if adding 30g cocoa powder to a cake mix, take out 30g of flour).

Happy baking!

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