Mini Vanilla Butter Cupcakes

Mini Vanilla Butter Cupcakes

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

  1. Preheat oven to 180C. Line 24-holes mini muffin pan with paper cases.
  2. 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.
  3. Divide mixture into cases. Bake about 15 minutes. Stand cakes 5 minutes before turning top-side up onto wire rack to cool.
  4. 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.

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