Cupcake Day

If you don’t already know Cupcake Day is coming up in Week Five on Friday the 26th! Cupcake Day is an event that we hold every year to help fundraise money to donate to the SPCA. We are encouraging everyone to bake cupcakes and bring them to school to help support the event. This event is not compulsory so you don’t have to bake cupcakes but it would  be very helpful if you did. If you don’t know how to bake cupcakes or your not allowed to then you can also support the fundraiser by just buying a cupcake or donating money. Last year we raised over $1000! So this year we’re aiming to raise even more! As well as raising money for the SPCA we are also holding competitions with prizes! It’s going to be an awesome day!

Simple Vanilla Cupcake Recipe~

(makes 20 cupcakes)

Ingredients~

2 cups of flour

½ teaspoon salt

2 teaspoons baking powder

½ cup of butter(soften)

¾ cup of sugar

2 eggs

1 cup of milk

1 teaspoon vanilla essence(optional)

Directions

1. Preheat the oven to 150c and line a muffin tray with cupcake papers.
2. Cream butter and sugar together until it is light and fluffy. Beat in one egg at a time.
3. Mix your flour salt and baking powder together.
4. Add your flour mixture to your butter and sugar cream; stir in the vanilla essence.
5. Divide evenly among the the cases and bake for 18 minutes; let them cool in the pan.

Basic Buttercream Icing Recipe~

Ingredients

150 grams of butter(softened)

2 cups of icing sugar

2~3 tablespoons of hot water

½ ~1 teaspoon of vanilla essence

Food colouring(optional)

Directions

1. Beat the butter and sugar together until fluffy.
2. Slowly add half a cup of sugar at a time with enough hot water to make a creamy mixture. Beat between each addition until fluffy.
3. (optional) Add food colouring in drops and mix in till you get your desired colour.
4. Pipe or spread onto your cooled cupcake.