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Recipe

Best-ever cupcakes

You have never had cupcakes like these before – they are the best. We decorated them with passionfruit icing and topped each one with an edible flower.

Feb 27, 2012 3:00am
  • 5 mins preparation
  • 25 mins cooking
  • Serves 10, Makes 14
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Best-ever cupcakes

Ingredients

Best-ever cupcakes
  • 125 gram soft butter
  • 3/4 cup caster sugar
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 3 eggs (number 6)
  • 1 1/2 cup self-raising flour
  • 1/2 cup milk
  • passionfruit pulp

Method

  • 1
    Preheat oven to 160ºC fan bake.
  • 2
    Place softened butter into cake mixer and beat until white for 5 minutes, then add sugar and continue to beat.
  • 3
    Add vanilla and eggs one at a time. Sift in flour and add milk and beat quickly, but surely (10 beats is ideal). Do not over-mix.
  • 4
    Place into cupcake cases and bake for about 25 mins - or when spongy to touch - and pale golden brown.
  • 5
    Cover with passionfruit icing, then split and fill with freshly whipped cream, or leave as is.
  • 6
    For the passionfruit icing, beat together 2 cups icing sugar, 1 tbsp soft butter and 1 tbsp cream cheese, thinning to the right consistency with passionfruit syrup.

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