Moms Classic Cupcakes Recipes

MOM'S CLASSIC CUPCAKES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• Beat thoroughly eggs, oil, and sugar, until light and bubbly.*.
• In a seperate bowl, sift flour and baking powder.
• Add to the eggs, alternating with the milk.
• Stir only until texture is smooth, as little as possible.
• If you wish, this is the time to add chocolate chips, nuts, raisins, or whatever.
• Pour into paper-lined muffin pan.
• Bake 20-25 minutes, until cupcakes are golden & a toothpick comes out clean.
• Cool before frosting.
• Icing:.
• Whip the icing sugar, butter, vanilla & add only enough milk for the icing to be smooth.
• Optional:.
• In cupcake batter, you can add spices, flavourings, your can include chocolate chips and/or raisins and/or cocoa and/or coconut, etc. etc.
• To the icing, you can add cocoa and/or mint, almond, orange extracts (or any other kind) to taste.
• You can also add food colouring to the vanilla icing.
• Dip the top of frosted cupcakes into shaved chocolate, sprinkles, roasted coconut, candy, spices etc. etc.
• Let your kids go wild!
• *The more you beat the eggs & sugar mix, the fluffier the cake will be.

MOM'S CHOCOLATE CUPCAKES

Steps:

• Mix all ingredients together until moist and well blended.
• Put in cupcake cups and bake for 20-25 minutes at 350 degrees F.
• Frost with your favorite icing.
• To make a layer cake, double the recipes and put in 2 round cake pans.
• Increase baking time to about 35 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.