How to bake a cupcake

   Who doesn`t love cupcakes? I hope no one. when you are in the mood for a cupcake you usually want to have and easy ingredients and steps to make you delicious treat. Most likely you would bake and eat a cupcake at night or during the day. But in order to do that you should have nice clean area to be able to have enough space and working space to bake you wonderful cupcakes. Here are a couple of short and sweet directions you need to follow to be able to enjoy your craving of a cupcake.

   Here`s what you will need to make your cupcake-

2 cups self-raising flour, sifted

3/4 cup caster sugar

3/4 cup milk

125g butter, melted, cooled

2 x 59g eggs, beaten

1 teaspoon Queen Natural Vanilla Essence

Sprinkles and lollies, to decorate

   Here`s what you will need to make your own icing-

1 1/2 cups pure icing sugar

Pink food colouring, optional

1 to 1 1/2 tablespoons water

   How to make your cupcakes and icing-

Preheat oven to 200°C. Grease a 12 x 1/3-cup capacity muffin pan. Alternatively, line holes with paper cases. Combine flour and caster sugar in a bowl. Make a well in the centre.

Add milk, butter, eggs and vanilla to flour mixture. Using a large metal spoon, stir gently to combine.

Spoon mixture into prepared muffin pan. Bake for 12 to 15 minutes, or until a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean. Stand in pan for 5 minutes before transferring to a wire rack to cool.

Make icing: Sift icing sugar into a bowl. Add food colouring and water. Stir until smooth and well combined. Spoon icing over cupcakes. Decorate with sprinkles and lollies.