I baked the cupcakes and she helped me with icing them and dipping them in the 100s and 1000s (sprinkles / jimmies). Her favourite colour is blue. So lots of blues - blue with green, blue with orange and blue with everything.
Mini Vanilla Butter Cupcakes Recipe (Makes 24)
Ingredients
- 1 cup (150 g) self-raising flour
- 90 g soften butter
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup (110 g) caster sugar
- 2 eggs
- 2 tbsp milk
Butter cream icing:
- 125 g butter, softened
- 1 1/2 cups (240 g) icing sugar
- 2 tbsp milk
Method
- Preheat oven to 180C. Line 24-holes mini muffin pan with paper cases.
- Sift flour into small bowl, add butter, extract sugar, eggs and milk; beat with electric mixer on low speed until ingredients are combined. Increase speed to medium, beat until mixture is changed to a paler colour.
- Divide mixture into cases. Bake about 15 minutes. Stand cakes 5 minutes before turning top-side up onto wire rack to cool.
- To make butter cream: Beat butter in small bowl with electric mixer until as white as possible; beat in sifted icing sugar and milk, in two batches.