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Ingredients
12 cake cases
1 1/2 cups of Self Raising flour
1/2 cup of chocolate chips
1/2 cup of castor sugar
100g butter, melted
1/2 cup of milk
2 eggs, beaten
1 tsp vanilla essence
12 smarties or m & m's
12 marshmallows
Icing - 20g butter, 1/2 tsp vanilla essence, a couple of drops of food coloring, 1 1/4 cups of icing sugar plus 1 tblsp of boiling water.
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Let’s get started...
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Preheat the oven to 200'c, 180`c if fan assisted.
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Line a 12 cup cake tray with the cases
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Place the flour, caster sugar, choc chips, into a mixing bowl, making a well in the middle
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Add the butter, eggs, milk, and vanilla. Using a large spoon, mix until combined.
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Spoon 2 heaped tablespoons of mixture into each muffin case
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Bake for 12-15 minutes or until a skewer inserted in the centre of one cake comes out clear. Stand for 5 minutes then transfer to a wire cooling rack to cool.
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While the cakes are cooling make the icing
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place the icing sugar, butter, vanilla essence and boiling water into a bowl. stir a little, then add the food coloring
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Stir until smooth.
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Spread each cake with the icing
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Cut the marshmallows in half so you have two round circles
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Place the marshmallows on each cupcake with a smartie or m & m in the middle to form your butterflies.
My son and I enjoyed making these gorgeous cup cakes with a lovely little mother’s day recipe he made from school. We are sure you will enjoy them too.
** Always a winner with the little ones! **
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