Funfetti Cupcakes

Ingredients

 Method

1) Preheat the oven to 170C/ 350F/ gas mark 3. Start, by mixing your margarine and sugar until light and fluffy. Then mix in eggs and make sure they are fully incorporated. Make sure you fully fold all your eggs and scrape the bottom of your bowl.

2) Finally, mix in your flour, vanilla and sprinkles. Make sure you do not overmix once you have added your sprinkles else they may blead into the batter. Next, spoon (or use an ice cream scoop) your cupcake batter into your cupcake cases. They could be around 3/4 full for the perfect cupcake. Bake for around 22 - 25 minutes or until golden brown

3) Once cool, I begin making my buttercream to do this I mix my butter until light and fluffy. Finally, fold through your icing sugar with a drop of vanilla. This should hold it self on a spatula and gradually fall of. If your buttercream is to stiff, add a tablespoon of liquid (ie milk or water) until it loosens up. It is the same the other way if it to soft add 50 g of icing sugar at a time until firm.

4) Once you have made your buttercream transfer it to a piping bag (fitted with an open star tip) and pipe Mr Whippy by going round the edge of my cupcake over lapping the last circling but not letting go of the pressure and when you are at the top flick of. Then, top mine with funffetti sprinkles.