BUTTER CREAM ICING CUPCAKES RECIPE

Chocolate cupcakes with Butter Icing.
The recipe is below for the cupcakes and the butter icing

These cupcakes use the recipe for chocolate cupcakes which is really moist and delicious.
INGREDIENTS
3/4 cup--6oz--175gm butter or margarine
3/4 cup--6oz--175gm castor sugar
1 cup--4oz--115gm self-raising flour
1/2 cup--2oz--60gm cocoa
1/2 teaspoon of vanilla extract
3 eggs
1 tablespoon of warm water
METHOD
Cream butter or margarine with the castor sugar in a large bowl. Add the vanilla extract. Beat in the eggs one at a time. Sift in the flour and the cocoa. Fold in. Add the water. Place the mixture in individual cupcake cases in a baking tray. Cook at gas 5--190C--375F for 12 t0 15 minutes.

I then decided to make a butter cream decoration and use a piping method. The Butter cream was made the following ways,

INGREDIENTS

In the U.K. we have a wide choice of spreads. You can use benecol and flora proactive if you are wanting to reduce cholesterol. I decide to use benecol to see what it was like. I found it quite good but it does not have the same taste as butter.

3 oz--75gm butter or margarine or benecol spread

6 oz--150gm icing sugar

1 tablespoon of milk or water

METHOD

Mix the butter and icing sugar together in a bowl. If using butter it is a good idea to let it soften if taking it straight from the fridge. Add the liquid and mix well. I then placed the icing into a tool I use for piping. I prefer this for small quantities but I would use a large icing bag for a large amount of butter icing. This tool has 4 different nozzles so practice with it until you get control and the designs that you want. It is really quite easy to do . You could have a few prepared with different colours of icing.

Icing Tube and 4 nozzles for the piping to decorate the cupcakes

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I hope you enjoy making these cupcakes from the cupcake recipes.