Sweet Vanilla Cupcakes.

Recipes

11 Feb

Today I decided to bake cupcakes. I am going to London tomorrow for my little cousin's birthday brunch.

Charlotte's birthday was last thursday, so as part of her late birthday present I am bringing her those sweet little cupcakes:

I thought you'd like to know what they're made of. SO here's the recipe I followed!

I used the basic recipe from a French book my friend got me last Christmas, in case you're interested it's called Cupcakes and it's by Estérelle Payany from the Solar Editions.

Ingredients (for 12 cupcakes) :

- 2 large eggs (prefarable organic)

- 120 g of soft butter

- 4 tablespoon of milk (5 cl)

- 140 g of plain flour (OR self-raising flour)

- 100 g of caster sugar

- 2 teaspoons of baking powder (ONLY if using plain flour)

- a pinch of salt

- 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract (or Orange blossom water)

- Preheat oven to 180°C .

- Beat butter and sugar with electric mixer until smooth and paler in colour.

- Add one egg after the other, then the flour, salt, and baking powder (only if you're using plain flour).

- Mix well, then incorporate milk and vanilla extract.

- Drop slightly rounded tablespoons of mixture into paper cases.

- Bake cakes for about 20 minutes (until a nice golden colour).

- Turn, top side up, onto a cooling rack.

Cupcakes straight out of the oven -cooling down.

When your cupcakes are finally cold, you can start icing them. i have used betty Crocker's Rich&Creamy vanilla Icing. Seriously people you HAVE GOT to try it. I could eat this icing out of the jar like it's ice cream. They also do a chocolate one. I have no words to describe it. It's that good.

Anyway this is not a commercial for Icing, so just start to ice your little cupcakes and feel free to be as artistic as you like. You can see my first attempt wasn't a success.