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Cupcake recipe

Cupcake recipe with cream cheese frosting - make your own delicious cupcakes and decorate with frosting...

★★★★★ Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars. 6 Ratings
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  • Difficulty: Medium
  • Serves 8+
  • Freezable

Preparation

Total time
25 Mins
Preparation time
10 Mins
Cooking time
15 Mins

For the cupcakes

  • 100g unsalted butter, softened

  • 100g self-raising flour

  • 100g caster sugar

  • 2 eggs

For the cream cheese frosting

  • 300g icing sugar

  • 50g unsalted butter

  • 125g cream cheese

Cupcake method

  1. Preheat oven to Gas mark 4/180'C/170'C fan

  2. In a large bowl, whisk all the ingredients until creamy

  3. Spoon into individual cupcake cases and cook for about 10-15 minutes until cooked

  4. To check they are cooked just press gently and they should spring back

  5. Once cooled, the cakes can be decorated with cream cheese frosting (or icing) and then decorated

Frosting method

  1. Put the icing sugar and butter in a bowl, using an electric whisk, beat together until well mixed

  2. Add the cream cheese to the mixture and using the whisk mix all together until the frosting is light and fluffy - be careful not to overmix or it can quickly become runny

  3. Spread onto the cupcakes with a flat knife or pipe on using a piping bag - to change the colour of the frosting, simply add a drop or two of food colouring

You will need

Cupcake cases - why not invest in some reusable silicone cases? We like these brightly-coloured rainbow ones that come in a set of 12. See more details here at Amazon.

Tips

The cupcakes are only suitable for freezing before they have been iced!

Variations

Chocolate cupcake recipe: to make chocolate cupcakes, replace 25g of flour with cocoa powder

Chocolate cupcake recipe: to make chocolate cupcakes, replace 25g of flour with cocoa powder

Reviews

★★★★★ Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars. 6 Ratings
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  • Guest

    ★★★★★ Rated 5 out of 5 stars.

    Usually use this recipe for cupcakes and everyone loves them , so this time I doubled the mixture and made my daughter's birthday cake, which she really loved!

    Reviewed on 28/11/15

  • Guest

    ★★★★★ Rated 5 out of 5 stars.

    easy and yummy :)

    Reviewed on 07/11/15

  • Guest

    ★★★★★ Rated 5 out of 5 stars.

    This is a lovely recipe, i added a few raspberry sprinkles on top and they were yum!

    Reviewed on 29/09/15

  • Guest

    ★★★★★ Rated 5 out of 5 stars.

    Tastes amazing! I added a drop of lemon flavouring and it was lovely

    Reviewed on 03/08/15

  • Guest

    ★★★★★ Rated 5 out of 5 stars.

    My daughter and I have made this simple recipe multiple times! It is so easy and flop-proof.

    Reviewed on 29/06/15

  • Guest

    ★★★☆☆ Rated 3 out of 5 stars.

    I love these cupcakes. Try adding a small amount of freshly brewed coffee which has been left to cool to the cake mixture. If you ice the cakes the coffee can be added to the icing powder for an intense adult cake!

    Reviewed on 19/02/15

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