Vanilla Iced Cupcake Recipe

Ingredients:

Cupcake Mixture

1 ½ cup (185g) plain flour (all-purpose)

3 teaspoons baking powder

125g unsalted butter softened

1 teaspoon natural vanilla extract

2/3 cups (145g) caster sugar

2 eggs

125ml (½ cup) milk

Icing Mixture

2 tablespoons butter

1 ½ - 2 cups icing sugar

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

2 - 3 tablespoons water

Methods:

1. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees celsius. Sift the flour and baking powder into a bowl. Add the butter, vanilla, sugar, eggs, milk and mix, either with electric beaters or with a wooden spoon, until smooth.
2. Arrange large cupcake cases in a 12 - hole muffin tin and spoon in the mixture into the cases. Bake fro 17 - 20 minutes or until golden brown. Leave in the tin for 5 minutes before turning out onto a wire rack to cool.
3. Mix the butter, icing mixture, vanilla and water together in a small mixing bowl.
4. When the cupcakes are cool ice the cupcakes to the way that you would like.