Pink Butterfly Cupcakes

Recipe and Images by Yasmin

I made these cupcakes for a baby girl's christening and it turned out to be a wonderful success; everyone loved them! It is just a basic vanilla cupcake recipe with piped butter icing (pink and white) with butterfly sprinkles on top - a very simple idea but a beautiful result. Enjoy!

Ingredients:
For Cupcakes:

• 2 tblsp butter, melted
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 cup self-raising flour
• 1/2 cup milk
• 1 tsp vanilla flavouring
• 2 eggs

For Butter Icing:

• 125g butter
• 1 1/3 cup icing sugar
• 1-2 tblsp milk
• pink food colouring

Method:

For cupcakes, beat all ingredients together until smooth in a large bowl. Spoon mixture into a cupcake tray with patty pan cases. Cook in moderated oven for 10-13 minutes. Remove, and place on wire racks to cool.

For butter icing, beat butter until smooth and fluffy. Add icing sugar and milk and beat until combined and smooth. Divide icing into two bowls. In one of the bowls add pink food colouring and beat until thoroughly mixed. Prepare two piping bags (or two zip lock bags with the tips cut off). Place the pink icing in one bag and the white icing in another bag. Pipe swirls (as seen in the picture) onto the cupcakes. Decorate with butterfly sprinkles.