Vanilla cupcakes - Pretty rose cupcakes with butter vanilla icing

  You will need the following items:

Self Raising flour	250 g
Margarine or butter softened	250 g
Caster sugar	250 g
Eggs	4
Milk	1/4 cup
Lemon juice and Vanilla essence	1  tsp each
Salt	3 pinches
Baking powder	1 tsp

Let’s make them: Set the oven to 180 C .

Cream the batter

• Beat butter and sugar together until creamy, using an electric hand mixer (3 mins)
• Add eggs, one at a time. Make sure you beat well after each addition
• Add vanilla essence,  lemon juice, salt and beat for two rounds

Sieve flour

• Mix baking powder to flour and sieve onto the cake batter, holding the sieve well above it, allowing the air to escape
• Do not use the electric mixer at this point.  Fold the flour gently with a wooden spoon until everything turns into a creamy batter
• Add milk and mix well

Fill the cupcake cases

• Fill the paper cupcake cases 3/4  with the batter, leaving space for cakes to rise
• Place the cases in the cupcake tray

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Bake in the oven

• Pop the tray in to the oven
• Bake for 13-20 min. (Do not open the oven door in the inital 10 mins)
• Insert a skewer into the middle of the cake and if it comes clean,  your cake is ready
• Take the tray out of  the oven and let it rest for 10 mins
• Slowly remove the cupcakes from the tray and place them on a cooling rack
• Let the cakes cool off completely

Let’s make the butter icing now:

Ingredients needed:

Icing sugar	300 g
Butter or Margarine	125 g
Lemon juice	1/2 tsp
Milk	1 tbsp
Liquid cake colours (red)
Vanilla	A few drops

Let’s make the icing:

• Cream up all together using an electric hand mixer
• Drop two drops from red liquid colour into one bowl to make pink colour
• Spread a layer of pink icing cream on the top.  Or, make swirls using your cake decorating kit
• Immediately after, sprinkle colourful sprinkles or desiccated coconut dipped in any colour
• Your pretty cupcakes are ready

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