Basic Cupcake/Muffin Recipe

Before you start, if you haven't already, read the posting on Everything you ever wanted to know about cupcakes but were afraid to ask, it's not everything but it's everything I could think of. Know this you can tweak this basic recipe so that you can make all sorts of weird and wonderful cakes (the one in this image has a basic cupcake mix with a little lemon rind for flavouring and the frosting is marscapone, icing sugar and lemon with a little lemon rind on top. If I'm honest the cupcakes were lovely really fluffy nice and moist too but the frosting



100g Sugar
100g Butter
100g Self Raising Flour
1 tsp Baking Powder
2 Eggs

1. Preheat oven to 200c
2. Cream Butter and Sugar until it pales in colour in an electric mixer.
3. Add eggs one at time making sure that each was mixed thoroughly
4. Sift Flour and add to the mix on a low until the flour is combined and then increase the speed for one minute.
5. Divide into 6 muffin or 12 cupcake cases and bake for 15-20 mins (depending on cake size) or until a skewer comes out clean.