Strawberry Swirl Butter Cake

This is another simple yummy butter cake that the kids will love, its also a smaller mixture so its the perfect size for a treat at home, i got eight Texas sized cupcakes out of this batch.

Strawberry Swirl Butter cake:

90g Butter softened
1/2 teaspoon vanilla essence
1/2 caster sugar
2 eggs
1 cup self raising flour
2 tablespoons of milk
2 tablespoons of jam - warm it in the microwave it will be easier to swirl around

Preheat oven to 180 degrees and line a muffin tin with cupcake cases - i got eight Texas sized cupcakes with this batch

beat butter till light and fluffy

add sugar, eggs, flour and milk, beat until the mixture is paler in colour

divide mixture among cupcake cases and smooth the tops then divide the jam over the tops of the cakes and swirl around with a skewer

bake cakes for 15 Min's

Butter Cream Frosting :

100g Butter @ room temp
1 1/2 cups icing sugar
1-2 tablespoons of milk
A drop of strawberry essence
A drop of red food colouring

Beat the butter till pale and fluffy

Sift the icing sugar into the creamed butter then add the strawberry essence
add sufficient milk till you get a nice fluffy consistency
when your happy with your icing drop in a spot of red food colouring then gently stir in till you get a pink and white swirl effect