How do I make posh cupcakes?

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like these??

not so much multicoloured, but just that posh icing on top?!

But those are so ugly!

Make cream cheese frosting (beat Philadelphia and demerara icing sugar together with a touch of orange zest, and colour a tasteful shade of pink) and put it on carrot cupcakes.

I make nice cupcakes and use a strawberry or a vanilla buttercream icing - and lots of sprinkly things- use a little strawberry essence and a tiny touch of pink colouring

Eww carrot cupcakes no thanks!

They aren't ugly!

The colours are a bit garish but I was thinking just 1 colour, a pale one, they are for my Dad.

Thats what I mean, I don't know how to make that nice thick icing

choc cupcakes with vanilla buttercream works well

I'll find my recipe....

Thankyou!

my mate sam gave me this

250g iscing sug
80g butter
25 ml milk

whisk whisk whisk

it is buttercream icing - twice weight icing sugar to marg, beaten together with a drop of vanilla extract and drop of food colouring

you need to pipe it using a star nozzle, in a slowly decreasing spiral, to make that shape.

125g softened unsaltede butter and 250g icing sugar - beat together add 1 tsp vanilla extract (not essence) and 2 tsp of milk - use wooden spoon...more milk or icing sugar as necc. Slather over cupcakes.

People can be very sniffy about cupcakes - I think they're ace.

Fab, thankyou!

This is for "Cupcakes" - the ingredients are quite different to fairy cakes but they make really lovely cakes with flat tops ready for the frosting. Makes 12.

120g plain flour
140g caster sugar
1.5 tspn baking powder
45g butter at room temp
120ml whole milk
1 large egg
1/4 tspn vanilla

Put flour, sugar, baking powder, pinch of salt and butter in bowl and, using a mixer, mix on low speed until you have sandy consistency. Add half the milk and mix.

Whisk the egg, vanilla & remaining milk for few secs then add to flour/butter mixture and mix till combined.

Divide between 12 cupcake cases and bake at 180/160fan/gas4 for 20-25 mins.

Vanilla Frosting

250g icing sugar
80g butter at room temp
25ml whole milk
couple drops vanilla
any colouring wanted

Beat icing sugar and butter on medium speed until it comes together. Turn mixer down slow and add milk & vanilla & any colouring and keep mixing until it is all light and fluffy.

I just fork the frosting on as I go for the rustic look but you could pipe it

What is the difference between cup and fairy cakes? Is it the size?

Because there is only one tin size in the US, where I'm from. You just use it to make muffins or cupcakes.

So, I've always made cupcakes. Never heard of fairy cakes till I came here a little over 9 years ago and well, I thought they were cupcakes by another name.

I don't whisk or sieve or anything.

I just use a cake recipe and put it in one or two of the tins I brought across.

Even boxes, there are direction for round tins, long tins and cupcake tins.

I don't get the big deal about cupcakes.

If you want the icing like that you need a great big huge icing tube designed for buttercream frosting. The normal royal icing tubes won't do it.

My friend makes them for a living and advised me to substitute half the butter with cream cheese. It tastes fine but, importantly, is a whiter bse to add colours like pink to, which she had found turned more peachy with just butter.

I actually went on a course for a day with a friend and it was really good fun.

I can't believe there is so much hype here about, well, cupcakes.

Mine come out fine, I sell them lots in school fairs.

They're just a cake recipe in an American muffin tin.

They can have any kind of frosting - buttercream, cream cheese/carrot cake, glaze, melted chocolate, I even do marshmallow fluff.

I mean, wtf, they're just cake.

Ok, wasn't hyping them, just saying I had a different recipe. The cupcakes are definitely different to the fairy cakes that I make - a bit lighter.

Hype-wise cupcakes are very last year; the big thing now is allegedly whoopie pies, or macaroons for the more restrained...

WTF is a whoopie pie?!

Whoopie Pies