Ingredients
- 200 g butter
- 200 g caster sugar
- 4 eggs
- 200 g self-raising flour
- 2 teaspoons of vanilla essence
For the icing
- 450 g icing sugar
- 200 g butter
- 2 tablespoons of water
- coloured writing icing
- sweets to decorate
How to make it
- Mix the butter and sugar together until smooth. Add the eggs and mix well.
- Gradually add the flour, then the vanilla essence.
- Put the cupcake cases in a cupcaketin and half fill each case with the mixture. Use the back of a spoon to flatten the top of the cupcakes to make them smooth.
- Bake the cupcakes in a moderate oven for about 20 minutes – they are done when they rise up and spring back into shape when lightly pressed. Leave them to cool.
- For the icing, put the icing sugar in a large bowl. Cream the butter in a large bowl. Add this to the icing sugar and mix together well, adding the water gradually.
- When the cupcakes are cool, spread a layer of icing over each one. Then decorate with writing icing and sweets.
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