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Pretty vanilla cupcakes recipe

1430 ratings

These picture-perfect vanilla cupcakes are a great way to show someone you care. Dainty and delicious, they're the perfect bake for a special occasion. Don't forget to decorate with the pearl swirls or silver balls, or decorations of your choice, to up the wow factor. See method

Serves 12
15 mins to prepare and 20 mins to cook
245 calories / serving

Ingredients

For the cupcakes

100g (3½oz) Lurpak unsalted butter, very soft
100g (3½oz) golden caster sugar
2 eggs
100g (3½oz) self-raising flour
½ tsp vanilla extract
Fiddes Payne pearl swirls, or silver balls, to decorate

For the buttercream icing

125g (4oz) Lurpak unsalted butter, very soft
100g (3½oz) icing sugar
red food colouring
green food colour
yellow food colour

No self-raising flour? Add 2 tsp baking powder for every 150g plain flour

Each serving contains

Energy
1015kj
245kcal 12%
Fat
16g 23%
Saturates
10g 50%
Sugars
18g 20%
Salt
0.5g <1%

of the reference intake
Carbohydrate 23.9g Protein 1.9g Fibre 0.3g

Method

Preheat oven to gas 4, 180˚C, fan 160˚C. Line a 12-hole bun tin with cupcake cases. Put the butter and sugar in a large bowl and beat with an electric beater until the mixture is light and fluffy. Beat in the eggs one by one and then beat in the flour and vanilla extract, plus a pinch of salt. The mixture should fall easily off your spoon; add a drop of milk if it is too stiff.
Put the mixture into the cupcake cases. Bake for 15-20 minutes, until the cakes have risen and are firm. As soon as you can, lift out of their tins and cool on a wire rack.
For the icing, beat the butter until it's soft, then beat in the icing sugar until you have a soft buttercream. Divide the mix into 3 portions and colour each one pale pink, green or yellow. Ice the cakes with the different colours, either using a palette knife or piping it on. Decorate with the pearl swirls or silver balls, or decorations of your choice.

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