Fail safe cupcake / fairy cakes to make 30 please

[onedayatatime73]

It’s traditional (expected) to take in cakes for the whole class on child’s birthday. This year my DD wants homemade ones because every year I’ve shop bought (sorry) and she wants homemade as they taste nicer.

Don’t need to be fancy. Just plain cupcakes with butter cream.

I don’t have much time so need a fool-proof recipe and don’t know who to search for? Nigella? Mary Berry? I need to make 30.

Much easier than a recipe with books...
3 eggs makes enough for both slices of victoria sponge - best bit is you can scale the recipe up as its done by egg weight, not numbers!

Weigh the eggs
Then weigh all ingredients to the same weight!

So...
Butter and caster sugar, creamed
Then add the eggs and stir/mix until it looks like scrambled egg..

Sift the self raising flour in in small amounts and mix, until reach total weight reached..

Pinch of salt
Few drops of vanilla essence

Add baking powder: 1/2 level teaspoon for 2 eggs, so scale it up!

Mix all very well until light and fluffy... and spoon into cupcake cases - heaped teaspoon per small case - it'll look small but they rise!

Hope this helps - taught by my gran and it is still working for me perfectly 20 years on

8oz softened butter, caster sugar and self raising flour
1 tsp vanilla
4 eggs (room temperature)
2 level tsps baking powder

Preheat the oven to 180 degrees
Cream the butter and sugar until light and fluff
Beat the eggs with the vanilla then gradually incorporate into the sugar/butter mix
Sift the flour and baking powder into the mix and then gently fold in
Divide the mix between the paper cases and put in the oven for 15-20mins until golden - leave to cool before icing and decorating

Lovely recipes. Thank you all for sharing.

But honestly I would just keep buying them from the bakery.

I bet none of the bakery/shop bought cakes are left behind!