Cook Time: 20 Minutes
What you need
For the Cupcakes
- 190g Odlums plain flour
- 1 ¼ tsp Odlums baking powder
- ½ tsp baking soda
- 125ml buttermilk, room temp
- 125ml sunflower or light olive oil
- 170g white sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 2 tsp Goodalls vanilla extract
- ¼ tsp salt
Frosting
- 300g butter softened
- 200g icing sugar
- Orange food colouring.
To decorate
- Halloween cupcake decorations
Recipe Steps
- Pre-heat oven to 180°C / 160°C fan assisted. Line a muffin tin with 12 cupcake liners.
- Sift together the flour, baking powder and baking soda in a large bowl or bowl of your stand mixer.
- In a separate bowl, whisk together the rest of the cupcake ingredients.
- Add the wet ingredients to the dry then mix with a large whisk or spoon, or whisk attachment on your stand mixer, just until the batter is combined. The batter will be quite loose. Tip: Make sure to scrape down the sides and bottom of the bowl once halfway through mixing.
- Spoon the batter into the cupcake liners to 2/3 full. Make sure not to fill them too much otherwise the cupcakes will flow over. Tip: If you are using cupcake liners that are a bit smaller and you find you still have cupcake batter left, you can use a second muffin tin lined with as many extra liners as needed. You may need to make extra frosting if this is the case, or simply dust the extras with powdered sugar and top with a strawberry!
- Bake in the pre-heat oven until a toothpick inserted in the centre of a cupcake comes out clean. Between 18-20 minutes. Tip: If your oven bakes unevenly, wait until halfway through baking before rotating the tin in the oven.
- Remove cupcakes from the oven and leave to cool on wire rack in the muffin pan for about 10 minutes, then remove cupcakes from the pan and leave to cool completely on wire rack before decorating.
- Make the frosting by beating the butter, icing sugar and a small drop of the orange food colour together until nicely combined.
- Place icing into a piping bag with a nozzle and pipe on top of the muffins once they are cooled.
- Decorate with cupcake decorations of your choice and then enjoy.
