White Cupcakes w Pink icing + Recipe

These are easy to make white cupcakes. That is, they only have vanilla taste but you can really do anything with the recipe. You can make a good cake :D Or you can stir in chocolate, it really doesn't matter because these cupcakes are real good.

Some of the cupcakes in the pictures are out of shape (and they're only the size of a 20 sen coin) because I was experimenting with the mini cupcake holders (used for cookies)

So yeah, to be practical and have a good shape, you must have:
1. A large enough cupcake mould/pan
2. Cupcake holders as shown above that fits the mould.

Recipe for white cupcakes:
Ingredients:
1 cup of white sugar (slightly more than a cup for brown sugar)
1/2 cup butter (3/4 the stick or 1/2 will do) - chopped, at room temp
2 eggs
2 tsp vanilla
1 1/2 cups flour
1 1/2 tsp of baking powder
Milk should be added according to texture but for formal purposes I shall say 1/2 cup milk

Procedure:

1. Line the cupcake holders in the cupcake pan
2. In a bowl, sift the flour and baking powder (because baking powder sometimes becomes hard and crumbly)
   
3. In a mixing bowl, cream together butter and sugar. You would want the butter to be soft and cut up so it is much easier to mix. If not, you can just harass your mixer.
4. Beat in the eggs one at a time. (I like to separate my yolks and whites and beat the whites till fluffy because it makes the cake lighter. This applies for any cake you want to make more fluffy and light). Stir in vanilla
5. Add flour a tablespoon at a time and alternate with milk. The idea is to get a texture such that when a spatula is inserted into the batter and lifted to the air, the batter falls smoothly back into the bowl.

Then, line the cupcake holders with the batter. I placed a chocolate chip below the batter for extra taste (or you can add on top)Bake in preheated oven of 175 degrees celcius for 20 minutes or until an inserted toothpick comes out clean.

For a normal size and well shaped cupcake, this is how it should look like. And there you have it! White cupcakes. But these go very well with icing! Because they're not so sweet.

Pink Icing (Warning! This recipe makes the mixing bowl very oily and may be found irritating to clean)
Ingredients:
1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup shortening
1 1/2 to 2 cups icing sugar, depending on taste
few drops of vanilla essence
few drops of food colouring (red preferably, mine is cochineal colour)
few teaspoons of cream/milk (I prefer cream)

Procedure:

1. In mixing bowl, cream soft butter and shortening until smooth and well blended
2. Add icing sugar gradually
3. Add a few teaspoons of cream until desired texture
4. For colouring, add one drop of colouring and stir. If the colour is still bland, add another drop and stir again. Continue this process until desired colour.
   

It should looks something like this!
And the end result. :) This part is entirely up to your piping bag, and your artistic skill.

NOTE!:

• There will be a lot of icing to spare, mostly because of the amount of butter. So it would be better to make more cupcakes to finish off the icing.
• When adding icing sugar, add according to taste, make sure you taste your icing before piping it onto the cake.
• If you want to add on the icing, do not add too much sugar in your cake so that the sweetness offsets each other
• If you do not want to put the icing, adding chocolate chips into your batter could make a swell dessert as well! :D
• Sorry there are not a lot of guiding pix because I did this at night!

Icing is really fun when there are a lot of people helping out because everyone loves to customize their own icing design! Icing is also really helpful in parties, so give this a shot whenever you're making a bulk of cakes for a hungry bunch that also have a sweet tooth.