This Basic Cupcake Recipe is fabulously versatile – use your imagination and see which flavours you can come up with!
Then you can ice them fancy if you so wish. I love a good mock cream icing with fresh fruit – so delicious.
Basic Cupcake Recipe
Course: DessertCuisine: AustralianDifficulty: Easy
Servings
12
servingsPrep time
5
minutesCooking time
12
minutesCalories
180
kcalTotal time
17
minutesA foolproof basic cupcake recipe—soft, fluffy, and endlessly versatile. Top with buttercream, sprinkles, or any decoration you like for birthdays, bake sales, or everyday sweet cravings.
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Ingredients
125 gram Butter
1 cup Flour Self-Raising
2 Eggs
3/4 cup Castor sugar
5 tbsp Milk
1/2 tsp Salt
1 tsp Vanilla essence
Directions
- Cream together the butter and sugar until creamy in colour and light and fluffy.
- Add the eggs one at a time and beat well.
- Add the sifted flour and salt, alternatively with the milk.
- Lastly add vanilla essence.
- Cook 10 – 12 minutes (pre-heat oven to 230 degrees C) reduce temp to 200 degrees for cooking time.
Notes
- Basic Cupcakes freeze very well. Seal in an airtight container for up to four weeks.
Responses to “Basic Cupcake Recipe”
Hi,
New to baking and don’t have kitchen scales. Could you please tell me the SR flour quantity in Cups?
Thanks
Rebekah, if you go into our recipes section, on the bottom right of the page is a recipe conversion calculator – this should help you!
Thank you!! Great help.
Is this 230 F or C?
Sorry Kate it’s celcius – I have added that to the recipe. Thanks!