Fairycakes..

The vanilla cupcakes

With frosting and sugarsticks as deco

I came across a recipe recently and decided to try it out yesterday.. This time I tried baking, Vanilla Cupcakes or as they call it Fairycakes!

It was a quite successful.. though I've put in more butter than recommended for both the cupcake and icing. The cupcake turn out just nice for me, as I love butter, but the icing didn't frost well. Didn't buy an icing set as well.. so I came up with a 'durian like' (as Kenn calls it) with colourful sugar sticks as decorations instead ;p

Method:
Preheat oven to 177 degrees C and line 12 muffin cups with paper liners.

For the Cupcakes:
Cream 113 grams of unsalted butterand 130 grams of granulated white sugar until light and fluffy.
Add 3 eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
Beat in 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract.
In a separate bowl whisk together 210g of flour, 1 1/2 teaspoon of baking powder, and 1/4 teaspoon of salt.
With the mixer on low speed, alternately add the flour mixture, butter mixture and 60ml of milk, in three additions, beginning and ending with the flour.
Evenly fill the muffin cups with the batter.
Bake until nicely browned and let it cool.
Then frost with icing.

For the Frosting:
Cream 113 grams of butter until smooth and well blended.
Add 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract.
And with the mixer on low speed, gradually beat in 230 gramsof icing sugar.
Add 2 tablespoon of milk and beat on high speed until frosting is light and fluffy.