Emily's Music: Baking Cupcakes!

So today's blog post is on baking cupcakes. This is coming out as a video on my channel on 22nd June!:-) I have always wanted to do a video just like this so that is what I decided to do.

So it was my brother's birthday on the 25th May and I baked him some cupcakes; they were just plain with icing and a few sprinkles but still, I thought I would share my recipe with you.

Ingredients:

- 200g Caster sugar

- 200g Softened butter

- 4 Eggs, beaten

- 200g Self- raising flour

- 1 tsp Baking powder

- 2 tbsp Milk (If needed, I don't usually need this)

FOR THE BUTTERCREAM ICING:

- 100g Butter, softened

- 140g Icing sugar

- 1 tsp Vanilla essence

Okay so to start get your butter and sugar in a bowl and cream them together with a wooden spoon. The method of this is to push the butter into the sugar until they come together and create a nice fluffy texture.

Then add in the 4 eggs and mix this together until there are no lumps in the mixture.

Next, add in your self- raising flour and baking powder and fold the flour into the mixture until it is smooth. The technique to doing this is to get your spoon underneath the mixture and fold the flour into the mix. This is so that the air can get in too because that will make your cakes nice and fluffy and light to eat. :-)

If you find your mixture needs a little milk then add it, however I never find this when I use this recipe.

Add your cake mixture into cases, preferably in a tray that has built in guides as to where you put the cases but if not, that's fine.

Then you're going to pop your cakes into the oven for aprox 20 minutes, until they are golden.

Whilst your cakes are in the oven, you are going to make your butter cream icing.

Get your butter and icing sugar and pop them into your mixer, as it is too hard and time consuming to do this part by hand. Then add in a teaspoon of vanilla essence, and some food colouring if you wish to. Then pop the icing in a bowl ready to ice the cakes when they cool down.