How to make and ice cupcakes. Cupcakes are a great for children’s party, especially under 5’s year olds party. Especially when it’s got icing on top children at that age group just love it. Mind you not as much as the cake it self as after they have the icing the cake is forgotten. So this blog post on how to make and decorate cupcakes.
To make cupcakes there are various recipes available. Mainly forms of butter cake or sponge base. Different flavours can be made as well from lemon to chocolate flavoured cake. Buttercream or double cream as frosting or icing. Icing made from double cream is much lighter compared to buttercream as icing.
Cupcake Base/ cake recipe makes 12 cupcakes
30 grams softened butter
90 grams caster sugar
1 large size free-range egg
100 grams self-raising flour
60 ml of milk
1 lemon zest only
1 orange zest only
One 12 hole muffin tin
12 cupcake liners
Method
Preheat fan assisted oven to 180 degrees Celsius. Prepare the cupcakes but putting them onto the muffin tray.
Measure out all the ingredients. Cream the butter with sugar. Then add the eggs and zests. Beat it till well mixed. Then add the flour. Beat at slow speed till well mixed.
Divide the mixture with 12 cupcakes cases. Then put them in the oven for 15-18 minutes.
When it’s cooldown then decorate it with either buttercream icing or double cream frosting. Add some hundreds and thousands to make it look more attractive and interesting.
Buttercream icing
100 grams of unsalted butter softened
100 grams icing sugar
Below picture, it’s what buttercream looks like when it is done. Using an electric mixer just cream the butter with icing sugar till it looks light and creamy.
buttercream
To make the double cream frosting which just consists of double cream and icing sugar. This makes a much lighter frosting/ icing compared to the buttercream.
cupcake
A recipe on making cupcakes
Cake base
- 30 grams unsalted butter, softened
- 90 grams caster sugar
- 1 large free range egg
- 100 grams self raising flour
- 1 grated orange rind
- 1 grated lemon rind
- 60 mls milk
Buttercream
- 100 grams unsalted butter softened
- 100 grams icing sugar
- Preheat fan assisted oven to 180 degrees Celsius. Prepare the cupcakes but putting them onto the muffin tray.
Measure out all the ingredients. Cream the butter with sugar. Then add the eggs and zests. Beat it till well mixed. Then add the flour. Beat at slow speed till well mixed.
Divide the mixture with 12 cupcakes cases. Then put them in the oven for 15-18 minutes.
When it's cooldown then decorate it with either buttercream icing or double cream frosting. Add some hundreds and thousands to make it look more attractive and interesting.
Buttercream icing
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Just cream together the butter and icing sugar till is light and creamy in texture. Add some food colouring to decorate.
