Easy Vanilla Cupcake & Award

It seems that I have been posting on lots of cakes, dessert and sweet things recently. I couldn’t help it. It seems that I got lots of desserts and sweets stuffs project going on – Cupcakes, pastillage, chocolates and more cupcakes... I think there will be more desserts projects coming on for the next couple weeks… 

Anyway, these cupcakes were part of my project for this month. I was supposed to prepare these vanilla cupcakes with two different themes – Turquoise and Yellow. I made some royal icing flowers for the toppers a few days earlier and kept them in an air tight container. This is the first time made a royal icing flowers. So, the shape was a bit inconsistent.

The cupcake was then frosted with Swiss meringue butter cream and topped them with those royal icing flowers. How do they look?  Which one is your favorite? Here's the recipe for the vanilla cupcake. It was actually a basic recipe which you could find almost anywhere online. But I got them from the cupcake class that I went to last time.

Easy Vanilla Cupcake

125g butter (softened)

2 eggs

3/4tsp vanilla essence

180gm self raising flour

1/2cup milk

170gm castor sugar

1/4tsp salt

1. Preheat oven to 180 degrees Celsius.
2. Combine all ingredients in a mixing bowl and beat until smooth with an electric mixer.
3. Place mixture into lined cupcake trays using a spoon, filling each until 3/4 full.
4. Bake for 15 minutes.
5. Cool completely before decorate.

Anyway... Ambreen from Simply Sweet 'n Savory had been so kind to share the versatile blogger award with me. Don't forget to visit Ambreen's blog. There are lots of interesting recipes and good looking pictures! Thank you, Ambreen :)