Cute Cupcakes

I know I really should be more consisitent with my entries but as usual my laziness coupled with writer's block (ya perasaan!) has got the better of me. Now Zahra is ill yet again with sore throat and poor thing had to miss her class end of year party today and will miss the music competition tomorrow, she has been practising so hard singing KC and the Sunshine band's " That's the way I like It"!!

Last weekend was Fatin's bithday and even though we had celebrated earlier in the week together with my dad (hence 2 birthday cake photos) we did another party cum cousin's sleepover, actually come to think of it she had a really stretched out weekend birthday! We had a swimming party with all cousins, then Barbeque on the same night, the girl cousins slept over, then the next day we had lunch at Escapade followed by watching Enchanted at the Empire. With Amin away the girls took over his room and watched TV almost till dawn!Sorry Amin they didn't thrash your room I promise!

So as Fatin did not celebrate with her friends like she has been doing for the past 10 years! I made some cupcakes for her to share amongst her friends at school,and I had fun doing it too. I got the recipe from Nigella Lawson's book and I must say even though I did the cupcakes the night before and decorated in the morning, the cakes were still moist and yummy. 1 recipe in accordance to Nigella gets her 12 cupcakes, but I managed to get 20 cupcakes! Maybe my muffin tray or paper cases are smaller!If you guys go on to one of my favourite blogs Inawhiz, she makes really beautiful cupcakes.. I need to go on a course to get this good! For now just main-main lah..bejabih-jabih style!

Anyway here's the recipe :

Fairy Cakes or Cupcakes

125g butter softened

125g caster sugar

2 large eggs

125 selfraising flour

1/2 tsp vanilla essence

2-3 tbsp milk

Butter icing -

150g softened butter

300g icing sugar sifted

3tbsp milk

colouring of your choice

Instructions: put all ingredients except for milk in a food processor and whiz. Then add milk and pulse until you get soft dropping consistency. Drop about 1 tabvlspoon into cup

cake case. Put into oven for about 15-20 minutes. Once cool, ice to your liking. (Sanang Kan?)