My go to cupcake recipe

I love to bake, especially cupcakes. Typically I’ll bake cupcakes for any holiday throughout the year – birthdays, Easter, Halloween, Christmas etc. This week is National Cupcake Week in the UK so I thought I’d share my go to cupcake recipe which is the basis for most of the cupcakes I bake.

Makes: 12 cupcakes

Ingredients

• 125g butter
• 125g Self raising flour
• 125 Caster sugar
• 2 Eggs
• 1/2 tsp Vanilla flavouring
• 12 cupcake cases

Method

• Preheat the over to 200 degrees C or Gas mark 6
• Round up your ingredients—beat the sugar and butter together until fluffy and light coloured.
• Beat in the eggs, one at a time adding the flour a little at a time until it’s all been added.
• Add the vanilla flavouring and mix it
• Put in the over for 15—20 mins
• Use a skewer, if they’re done it will come out clean. Put on a cooling rack.
• When they’ve cooled, decorate and enjoy!

Here’s a few of the cupcakes I’ve baked previously and what occasion they were for.

My sister’s 21st birthday

Halloween (2011)

Halloween (2013)

Christmas (2013)

Easter (2014) – I also made the “nests” with cornflakes and melted chocolate, and some sugar cookies (shown in the tin).