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Pretty and tasty treats from the kitchens of  yelleena

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I really dislike cupcakes...But I had an assignment to cook, ice and present cupcakes so this photo although a little dark are my top 12. Hopefully they are what was desired by the teacher and look desireable as I'm homeschooling these. I still dislike Cupcakes.

Three flavours of cakes - Chocolate, Vanilla and Strawberry with buttercream icing and a variety of decorations.

Basic Cake Mix - Vanilla

Ingredients

200g soft butter
1 cup caster sugar
1 tsp vanilla
3 Eggs
2 and 1/2 cups SR Flour - sifted
1 tsp baking powder
1/c cup milk

Method

Using beaters, cream the butter and sugar, add vanilla.
Add the eggs one at a time and beat well with each addition
Stir in half of the flour
Stir in half of the milk
Stir in remaining flour
Stir in remaining milk

Place dollups of batter into pre prepared lined cup cake tray
Bake at 170-180 degrees celsius for 15 - 17 minutes or until lightly brown

Let cool completely before icing with your choice of icing and decorations

For Chocolate Cakes
Use Basic Recipe + I added 3 tbsp cocoa powder and 2 tbsp chocolate icecream topping

For Stawberry Cakes
Use Basic Recipe + I replaced the 1 tsp of vanilla with 2 tsp strawberry essence and added a little strawberry icecream topping


Buttercream icing

Ingedients

250g unsalted soft butter
530g powdered confectioners or pure icing sugar - sifted
1 tsp clear vanilla essence or other essence if doing a different flavour
2 tbsp milk
Colouring of choice

Method

Using Beaters - beat the butter until creamy and pale
Add in flavour essence
Add icing sugar a little at a time beating constantly
Add milk 1/2 a tablespoon at a time until desired viscosity is achieved
Separate into smaller bowls if you wish to colour some differently.

I used a piping bag with a feneric star fitting for most of those pictured.

Notes: 1. The colour of the butter will effect the icing colour depending on how yellow it is.
2. Any buttercream icing not in use should be kept covered so it doesn't dry out.

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Allergy warning – recipe contains dairy & egg products