Explain An Easy Cupcake Recipe

Christmas is creeping up on us fast and before you know it the big day will be here, so why not be prepared! What i always remember about Christmas is my mum spending hours in the kitchen baking all our favourite cakes. But it doesn't have to take hours! and with the easy cupcake recipe below you will have luxurious Christmas cupcakes in no time at all.

These cakes are made to look like wonderfully decorated Christmas trees, but you could do any design you wanted with the frosting. Such as angels, Santa, presents, stars etc, all you have to do is add different coloured food colourings and get creative.

So lets start with the ingredients:

150 g butter, softened

150 g caster sugar

3 free range eggs

150 g self-raising flour

1 tsp vanilla extract

For the butter icing frosting:

200 g butter,

250 g icing sugar

1 tsp vanilla extract

green food colouring

To decorate the cupcakes:

Hundreds and thousands

So here is the method on making 12 quick and easy Christmas cupcakes.