Baking Fun - Party Cupcake

I did this during the Christmas celebration with hubby and piggy gang on the past few days. It was my 1st time produce the icing cream but it seems not so successful, due to it's too watery.... because of this, I gotta quickly put the cupcakes into the fridge after decorated it in order to avoid the cream further melt away.

My cupcake turned out not so nice and tasted a bit hard :( I guess it needs more improvement next time. 1 of my piggy member given me 6/10 for the taste, but 10/10 from its outlook and my sincerity....muahhahaha! Let's check out the recipe below, may be you can try this out for New Year celebration as well ;-)

Ingredients:
• 110g Unsalted butter at room temperature
• 90g Caster sugar
• 110g self-raising flour
• 1tbsp Dutch-process cocoa powder
• 2 eggs
• 1 tbsp full cream milk

Method:
1. Preheat oven to 180 degree C.
2. Line paper cases in muffin tin.
3. Combine all the ingredients in a large bowl and beat with an electric mixer until smooth.
4. Spoon the batter into the cases.
5. Bake about 15mins; remove cupcakes and cool on rack. Once the cup cakes cool frost with icing and decorate as per your style.


Butter-cream Frosting:
• 240g pure icing sugar, sifted
• 120g unsalted butter at room temperature
• 2 tsp pure lemon extract
• 4 tbsp whipping cream

Method:
1. In an electric mixer, cream the butter until smooth and well blended. Add in lemon extract.
2. With the mixer on low speed, gradually beat in the sugar. Add the whip cream and beat on high speed until frosting is light and fluffy (about 3-4 minutes).