Birthday Cupcake Recipe

Hey!

So, I have been so confused with the amount of birthdays that have been going on over this weekend I kind of forgot whose birthday's was when so I was searching Facebook for peoples birthdays so I knew who to call (I kind of forgot to call everyone)...

Anyway my mate asked me to go to her birthday party and I had nothing to give her ... so I made cupcakes. Here they are...

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Birthday Cupcakes

Ingredients ;

Just under a cup (110 g) of butter (softened at room temperature)

Just under a cup (110 g) of caster sugar

2 free-range eggs (lightly beaten)

1 tsp of vanilla extract

Just under a cup (110 g) of self raising flour (I made my own using wheat free flour)

1-2 tbsp of milk (I used almond milk)

1 tsp of baking powder

1/4 tsp of salt

1. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees C / Gas mark 4 and line a 12 hole muffin tray with cases.
2. First crack the two eggs into a little bowl and just put them to one side.
3. So I didn't have self raising flour so I kind of had to make my own. So you basically just need to mix up the flour, baking powder and salt in a separate bowl until it's fully mixed.
4.  Cream the butter and sugar in a bowl until creamy and smooth and nice. 
5. When it's all creamy and nice, beat in the eggs a little bit at a time, and then stir in the vanilla extract.
6. Fold in the flour adding the milk a little bit at a time. (I completely messed up with the milk because I'd read the instructions wrong and added double the milk because I'd also read the butter cream icing so yeah I ended up using double so they came out slightly weird looking...)
7. Put the mixture into the cases (I spooned 2 tbsps of the mix into each case) and put in the oven.
8. Cook for 10-15 mins (I cooked for 30 mins because my cupcakes looked like they were failing). TOP TIP: If you stick a little wooden toothpick or a fork into a cupcake and it comes out clean then your cupcake is done and you can take them out.
9. Leave them to cool for a while (I left mine overnight - but I did start cooking at like 8-ish and finished at 9 or something).
10. Eat. Or wait for my next blog post where you can see the finished result (all iced and stuff) and how to make butter cream icing (yum...butter cream icing).

That's it 

Kalli xxx