Valentine's Cup Cakes!

I made these for Valentine's day! They were actually more red in real life, the picture makes them look kind of salmon couloured! It was vanilla cup cakes with strawberry frosting.

I made basic vanilla cup cakes:

225g (8oz) butter

225g (8oz) caster sugar

225g (8oz) self-raising flour

4 eggs

2 tsp vanilla extract

(Makes 12)

1) Preheat your oven to 180 degrees / Gas mark 4

2) Cream the butter & sugar together

3) Add in the beaten eggs bit by bit

4) Fold in the flour gradually

5) Stir in the vanilla extract 

6) Put into cake cases in a muffin tray & bake for 15-20 mins!

For the frosting:
250g (8oz) butter
600g (12oz) icing sugar
2 tsp strawberry flavouring
4 tsp red food colouring


1) Cream together butter & icing sugar
2) Add the flavouing & colouring & mix until the colour is even!


I piped this using the star nozzle & added candy roses for a cute Valentine's touch!
They were really nice, the strawberry frosting was lovely! Ideally I would like to do it again but using fresh strawberry's rather than flavouring.