Cupcake recipe for 4 - 8 people, takes only 25 mins; recipe has large egg, natural yogurt, vanilla extract, caster sugar, self-raising flour, ground almond, butter, butter, icing sugar, ready-to-roll icing, food colouring and icing.
Celebration cupcakes
Course: Cupcake
Servings
4 - 8
servings
Prep time
30 mins
Ingredients
- Natural Yogurt: 200g natural yogurt
- Butter: 250g pack butter, softened
- Caster Sugar: 250g caster sugar
- Self Raising Flour: 280g self-raising flour
- Ground Almond: 140g ground almond
- Vanilla Extract: 2 tsp vanilla extract
- Large Egg: 3 large eggs
- Icing Sugar: 300g icing sugar, sifted, plus extra for rolling
- Food Colouring: few different food colourings
- Icing: extra icing and decorations of your choice (see method section for ideas)
- Ready To Roll Icing: 500g pack ready-to-roll icing, for the tops
Directions
- Heat oven to 160C/140C fan/gas 3. Line 2 x 12-hole muffin tins with paper cases. Put the eggs, yogurt, vanilla, sugar, flour, almonds and butter in your largest mixing bowl and beat until smooth and lump-free. Divide between the paper cases and bake for 25-30 mins (swapping the trays after 15 mins if you have to use 2 shelves) until a skewer poked into the centre of the cakes comes out clean.Cool on a wire rack. They can be frozen for up to 1 month or kept in an airtight container overnight.
- To decorate, beat the butter and icing sugar together until smooth and light. Use a teaspoon to spoon a heaped dollop into the centre of each cake or, for speed, spoon into a food bag, cut about 2cm off the corner and pipe a dollop onto each.
- Divide the icing into as many colours as you want - plus a piece left to be white, or to brush with glitter, if you like. Knead a little colouring into each piece until you have a good colour, then roll out onto a surface lightly dusted with icing sugar. Use a 6.5cm fluted cutter to stamp out rounds and press down onto the icing to flatten it a bit. Repeat with the other colours to cover all the cakes. Now decorate as you wish, or see our ideas, below.