Larry's Kitchen
🍳 Cupcakes
🦁 Why Larry Likes This One
Larry loves how they have swirly icing on top!
Serves
12
Prep
20 min
Cook
20 min
Level
⭐⭐ Getting Confident
⚠️ Allergen Information
🌾Gluten (Cereals)🥚Eggs🥛Milk
Always check ingredient labels every time you cook. Ingredients can change. If your child has a diagnosed food allergy, follow their healthcare team's advice.
🥕 Ingredients
- •200 g plain flour
- •150 g butter
- •150 g caster sugar
- •3 eggs
- •2 tbsp milk
- •1 tsp vanilla extract
- •2 tsp baking powder
- •300 g icing sugar
- •150 g butter for icing
- •1 few drops food colouring
🔧 Equipment
muffin tinmixing bowlpiping bagwhisk
📝 Method
🔥 Oven/Cooking temperature: 180°C / Gas 4
- 1Adult: preheat the oven to 180°C / Gas 4.
- 2Cream the butter and sugar.
- 3Beat in the eggs one at a time, then the vanilla.
- 4Fold in the flour and baking powder.
- 5Add the milk.
- 6Spoon into muffin cases.
- 7Adult: bake for 20 minutes until golden.
- 8Cool completely.
- 9Beat the icing sugar and butter for the icing.
- 10Add colouring if you like.
- 11Pipe onto the cupcakes.
🦁 My Jobs
- ✓ Cream butter and sugar
- ✓ Crack eggs
- ✓ Spoon into cases
- ✓ Pipe the icing
👨👩👧 Grown-Up Jobs
- ⚠️ Use the oven
- ⚠️ Handle hot muffin tin
- ⚠️ Hot cakes can burn
⚠️ Food Safety
- • Adult must operate the oven
- • Cakes will be very hot — let them cool completely before icing
- • Don't overmix the batter
🧩 Try It Your Way
Try lemon, chocolate or coffee flavour instead of vanilla.
