Vanilla Cupcakes with Buttercream Icing

Vanilla Cupcakes with Buttercream Icing
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  • Ingredients
    For the Vanilla Cupcakes
    • 150g Dairygold Baking Block
    • 150g caster sugar
    • 150g self-raising flour
    • 3 medium eggs
    • 2 tbsps milk
    • 1 tsp vanilla extract
    For the Buttercream Icing
    • 100g / 3 ½oz of Dairygold Baking Block
    • 200g icing sugar
    • Half a lemon (optional)
    • 1 tablespoon cocoa powder (optional)
    • 2 drops vanilla extract (optional)
  • Instructions

Cupcakes are small but perfectly formed treats, and these vanilla versions with butter cream icing are sweet, rich, simple and delicious. The icing in particular is quick and easy to make, so your kids will enjoy making them almost as much as everyone will enjoy eating them! This recipe makes 12 cupcakes.

Ingredients

For the Vanilla Cupcakes
  • 150g Dairygold Baking Block
  • 150g caster sugar
  • 150g self-raising flour
  • 3 medium eggs
  • 2 tbsps milk
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
For the Buttercream Icing
  • 100g / 3 ½oz of Dairygold Baking Block
  • 200g icing sugar
  • Half a lemon (optional)
  • 1 tablespoon cocoa powder (optional)
  • 2 drops vanilla extract (optional)

Instructions

Preheat your oven to 190°C/375°F/Gas Mk 5.

Place all the cake ingredients into a mixer and beat until smooth. Alternatively, place them in a large mixing bowl and blend with a hand mixer – or your hands!

Line a 12-hole cupcake tin with paper cases and spoon the cupcake mix evenly between them.

Bake on the middle shelf of your preheated oven for 15-18 minutes. You’ll know they’re done when they’ve risen and spring back when gently pressed.

Allow to cool completely on wire racks. Meanwhile, make your icing.

To make basic buttercream icing, simply mix your Dairygold Baking Block with the icing sugar until well blended and smooth.

Depending on what flavour you’d like your icing to be, simply add the following during mixing:

Lemon flavour: add the juice of half a lemon.

Chocolate flavour: sift in a tablespoon of cocoa powder (use a sieve to avoid lumps).

Vanilla flavour: add 2 drops of vanilla extract.

Use a flat knife or icing bag to spread or pipe the icing onto the cooled cupcakes.

Important house rule: No eating the icing until it’s on the cakes! Well, maybe just a little bit.