Baking: Vanilla Cupcakes

Not to give false impressions if you're new to my blog; I'm not one of those perfect, fancy baker types who is talented enough to post regular baking masterpieces. I quite simply had a good baking turnout for once this week, and thought I'd share if with you guys. I love baking, and try new recipes often enough, but admittedly they always fall flat in some way or another. Whether the taste isn't quite right, I burn something, or it just generally looks a mess; you can always count on me to fail, haha.
So this week I tried out a very simple vanilla cupcake recipe, and they actually turned out really good! They made for soft, fluffy, sweet little things, and I even decorated them adorably.   

So here's how you make these bad boys quickly and easily:
- Preheat your oven to 180C/Gas Mark 4. - Line a muffin tin with paper cases, or use silicone cases like I have. - Cream 110g butter and 110g of caster sugar together until pale. - Beat in two eggs and mix well. - Stir in 2 teaspoons of Vanilla Extract. - Fold in 110g of Self Raising Flour until it's of dropping consistency.  - If needed, add a tablespoon or two of milk as you go. - Once completely mixed, spoon mixture into the cupcake cases until they are half full. - Bake in the oven for between 12 - 16 minutes, or until golden brown. - Leave to cool for at least 10 minutes.
Now, this is the part where I cheated. I bought tubes of icing rather than make my own, in true crappy baking Jemma style. I recommend you take the easy route and do the same ;) If not, there are hundreds of really simple icing recipes online.
- So next I added my two different types of icing, as neat as I could (lol). - Now the fun part! Decorate with edible glitter, chocolate stars, sprinkles, whatever you like!
- Enjoy! xx