- Preheat oven to 170degC. - Line two-and-a-half 12-hole muffin trays with cupcake papers. - Whisk flour, baking powder, and salt together in a small bowl to aerate and combine. Set aside until required. - In a large bowl use an electric mixer on medium-high speed to beat butter for about 2 minutes until creamy. - Add sugar gradually, beating until light and fluffy, scraping down the bowl once or twice. This will take about 3 minutes. - Beat in vanilla essence. Add eggs one at a time, scraping down the sides of the bowl and beating after each addition. - Add the flour mixture in 4 additions, alternately with the milk. Begin and end with the flour mixture, and beat briefly until smooth on low speed after each addition. - Divide batter evenly between the cupcake papers. - Bake for about 18 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the centres shows a few moist crumbs. (The centres should also spring back when lightly pressed.) The cupcakes might colour a bit around the edges, but they will not brown. - Cool cupcakes in the muffin trays for 5 minutes before removing the cupcakes to a wire rack to cool completely.
- Cream the butter for 1-2 minutes. - Add the milk, vanilla and half the icing sugar. - Beat for at least 3 minutes, or until the mixture is light and fluffy. - Add the remaining icing sugar and beat for a further 3 minutes, or until the mixture is light and fluffy and of a spreadable consistency. - If the mixture is too dry add extra milk and if the mixture is too wet add extra icing sugar.
Take everything you need out of the fridge in time to get to room temperature - and this makes a huge difference to the lightness of the cupcakes later preheat the oven to 200 degrees C.
Put all of the ingredients for the cupcakes except for the milk into a food processor and blitz while adding the milk down the funnel, to make a smooth dropping consistency. Divide the mixture between a 12-bun muffin tin lined with muffin papers, and bake in the oven for 15 to 20 minutes. They should have risen and be golden on top. Let them cool a little in their tins on a rack, and then take them carefully out of the tin to cool in their papers, still on the wire rack
dreamitliveit,
Dec 23, 10:39pm
thank you Pam! ENJOY YOUR XMAS!
13nadia13,
Dec 24, 2:02am
Is 125grams sugar one cup!
sarahb5,
Dec 24, 4:36am
No, half a cup
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