Cupcake Brights

So tomorrow is the last day my almost four year old daughter is to finish daycare so i thought id make the staff and kids some cuppys to say thanks, i just wanted to do something simple as Ive got some birthday cupcakes to make this weekend and my parents are down for the long weekend to visit too and oh yeah and Ive only got 6 weeks to go before baby number two arrives!

So i made some Vanilla cupcakes this recipe came from "Divine Cupcakes" by Tamara Jane ( Tempt cupcakes) its quite a big recipe i got 48 mini cuppys and 12 Texas cuppys out of this batch .

Then i frosted with my usual butter icing then sprinkled with these cute rainbow choc chips that i got from Countdown the result was a big happy sweet rainbow - hope the kids like em!

Vanilla Cupcakes:

415g plain flour

3 teaspoons of baking powder

1/4 teaspoon of salt

230g unsalted butter softened

330g sugar

1 tablespoon of vanilla essence

4 eggs

1 cup of milk

preheat the oven to 180 degrees

and line muffin tins with cupcake papers

whisk the flour , baking powder and salt together in a small bowl to aerate and combine

in a electric mixer best the butter till creamy then add sugar gradually beating until light and fluffy

beat in the vanilla and add the eggs in beating after each addition

add the flour mixture alternately with the milk

mix until smooth

bake for about 18 minutes or until toothpick inserted comes out clear

cool cupcakes the frost

Frosting:

300g butter softened
4 1/2 cups of icing sugar
few drops of vanilla essence
5-6 tablespoons of milk

beat butter till pale and fluffy
sift in the icing sugar and start beating add in the vanilla and slowly add in the milk ass needed till you get the consistency you need
split up the icing into separate bowls and go wild with the food colour!