This recipe calls for plain vanilla cupcakes that are iced in a fancy manner. If you don’t have time to make the cupcakes, store-bought ones are fine too.
For cupcakes
Ingredients
Vanilla cupcake
Butter – 150 gms
Castor sugar – 150 gms
Maida (or even atta) – 175 gms
Eggs – 3 nos (if vegetarian, replace with ½ cup curd)
Baking powder – ½ tsp
Vanilla essence – 1 tsp
Cupcake moulds
Method
- Sift the flour, baking powder and keep aside
- Soften the butter at room temperature.
- Crack the eggs and beat them until light and fluffy
- Add butter, sugar, eggs, vanilla essence to the flour mixture and mix well.
- Line a cupcake pan with the paper moulds and pour equal amounts of batter into them. Bake in a pre-heated oven at 180 degrees Celsius for 20 minutes until brown
- When done, transfer to a wire rack and allow it to cool before icing.