Method
Preheat the oven to 180C/350F/Gas 4 and line a 12-hole muffin tin with paper cases.
Cream the butter and sugar together inside a bowl until pale. Beat within the eggs just a little at any given time and stir within the vanilla flavoring.
Fold within the flour utilizing a large metal spoon, adding just a little milk before the mixture is of the shedding consistency. Spoon the mix in to the paper cases until they're half full.
Bake within the oven for 10-fifteen minutes, or until golden-brown on the top along with a skewer placed into among the cakes arrives clean. Put aside to awesome for ten minutes, then remove in the tin and awesome on the wire rack.
For that buttercream icing, beat the butter inside a large bowl until soft. Add half the icing sugar and beat until smooth.
Adding the rest of the icing sugar with one tablespoon from the milk, adding more milk if required, before the mixture is smooth and creamy.
Add some food colouring and blend until well combined.
Spoon the icing right into a piping bag having a star nozzle and pipe the icing utilizing a spiralling motion to the cup cakes inside a large swirl.