Baking recipes!

Cupcake

Ingredients:

1 and 1/2 cups of all purpose flour, sifted

1 and 1/2 tsp of baking powder

1/2 a tsp of salt

1/2 a cup of unsalted butter at room temperature

1 cup of granulated sugar

2 eggs at room temperature

3/4 of milk

2 tsp of vanillaextract

Frosting:

1/2 a cup of unsalted butter at room temperature

4 cups icing sugar sifted

1/4 of a cup 35% of whipping cream (approx)

2 tsp of vanilla extract

A pinch of salt

Steps:

Step 1

Preheat oven to 350°F. Put 12 muffin cups with paper liners on a cooking tray. Whisk together flour, baking powder and salt, set aside. In a separate bowl, use an electric mixer, mix the butter and sugar until it is light and fluffy. mix in the two eggs, one at a time, incorporating each one fully before adding the next one. Next, mix in vanilla.

Step 2

Put the pixer on a low speed, and add flour mixture in 3 parts. Milk in 2 parts, starting and ending with flour mixture, and scraping bowl is needed between additions.

Step 3

Spoon or scoop the batter into the muffin cups, about two-thirds full. Bake them for 18 to 20 minutes or until tester comes out clean when inserted into centre of cupcakes. Let the cupcakes cool down completely on the rack.

Making the frosting

Step 1

mix the butter until it is light and fluffy. Put mixer on low speed, mix in the icing sugar, cream, vanilla and salt until smooth. Adding up to 2 tbsp of cream if needed. Increase speed to high; beat for 1 to 2 minutes or until frosting is light and fluffy.

Step 2

Add frosting to piping bag fitted with round tip, pipe over cupcakes. Spoon frosting into resealable bag and clip off one corner to pipe over cupcakes.

That is how you make a yummy cupcake!