Vanilla Cupcakes!

So today I felt like making so cupcakes, and I decided to also blog about it!
So here is a recipe for vanilla cupcakes, hope you like it!
Ingredients:
110g butter or margarine, softened at room temperature
110g caster sugar
2 eggs, lightly beaten
1 tsp vanilla extract
110g self raising flour
1-2 tbsp milk
For the butter icing: 
140g butter, softened
280g icing sugar
1-2 tbsp milk
a few drops food colouring

 Preheat the oven to 180C/350F/Gas 4 and line a 12-hole muffin tin with paper cases.
Cream the butter and sugar in a bowl until pale.

 Beat the eggs a little at a time, then add vanilla extract. I usually add a bit more vanilla extract than the recipe says, purely because I love vanilla!

Mix the mixture with the flour using a large metal spoon, adding milk until the mixture is a dropping consistency. 

 Spoon the mixture into the paper cases until they are half full. I also had enough mixture for a heart muffin tin.

 Bake in the oven for about 15 minutes, or until golden on top and a skewer inserted into one of the cupcakes comes out clean.

For the butter icing, beat the  butter in a large bowl until soft.

 Add about half of the icing, and beat until smooth.

 Next, add the remaining icing sugar with a tablespoon of milk, adding more milk if necessary, until the mixture is smooth and creamy.

 Add the food colouring, and mix until well combined. You can add any colour you like, I went for yellow... even though the mixture was already quite yellow from the butter. But I liked the colour in the end, came out as an intense yellow- reminded me of Easter :)

 What you should do:
Spoon the icing into a piping bag, and pipe the icing using a spiralling motion onto the cup cakes in a large swirl.
What I did:
Piping bags hate me. It's official. So instead of piping the icing, I just spread it over the cupcakes. I do not recommend doing this, unless piping bags hate you as well, because it comes out uneven. But in the end, it's your choice :)

 I also found these cute sprinkles in my cupboard, and decided to use them. I only had a little bit left of, what i can only describe as, pink sugar cylinders. They're cute.
I brought these sprinkles from Tesco. They have a huge selection of baking decorations in Tesco, so I recommend going there if you need something to make your baking look a bit cuter.

The end result :)
Just keep in mind that PIPING BAGS HATE ME...!
Now it's time for my favourite part- eating cupcakes! Yey!
Mine tasted great, I think that this recipe is really good- so why don't you have a go?
Comment down below and say hi, maybe you can send me a pic of your cup cakes?
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Thank you <3

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