Vanilla Cupcake Recipe
Ingredients
Cupcakes
- 200 g Self Raising Flour (7oz)
- 200 g Room Temperature Butter or baking spread (7oz)
- 200 g Caster Sugar 7oz
- 2 Eggs (medium)
- 1 tbsp Vanilla Essence / Flavouring
- 2 tbsp Milk
Vanilla Buttercream
- 340 g Icing Sugar (12oz)
- 170 g Room Temperature Salted Butter (6oz)
- 1.5 tbsp Milk
- 1 tbsp Vanilla Favouring (or favouring of your choice)
Instructions
- To make the cupcakes I add all the ingredients into my mixing bowl at the same time. Then using an electric hand whisk or electric stand mixer with the paddle attachment you want to mix them up until well combined (this usually takes around 30 seconds).
- You then want to split the mixture into my 12 cupcake cases and bake them in a preheated oven for around 23 – 25 minutes at 180 degrees Celsius. When setting my oven I always use a normal oven setting. If you are using a fan oven you will need to reduce the temperature and bake for a little longer. With a fan over you may find that the outside bakes a little quicker than the inside.
- Once they have a nice golden colour on the outside you can test they are baked on the inside by using a cocktail stick or bamboo skewer. Poke it into the center of your cupcakes, if it comes out clean you know they are baked all the way through.
- You then want to let your cupcakes cool.
- To make the buttercream; sift the icing sugar into your mixing bowl. Then add the room temperature butter (you want to make sure with buttercream you are using a real butter rather than a spread). Add in your flavouring and start your mixer. You can then add the milk to get the consistency you are looking for.
- Mix on a medium / high speed for around 5 minutes. You will see your buttercream start to turn really creamy. You can then add any colouring of your choice. Gel colours work well as you are not adding any liquid to your buttercream.
- You can then add your buttercream into your piping bag with a piping tip of your choice and pipe a pretty swirl on the top of your cupcakes. Read more about making the perfect buttercream here.