Mom's Classic Cupcakes

Total Time: 30 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 20 mins

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 cups flour
• 3/4 cup milk
• 2/3 cup sugar
• 1/3 cup oil
• 2 eggs
• 3 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 2 cups icing sugar
• 1/4 cup butter
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• milk, as needed

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 350°f.
• 2 beat thoroughly eggs, oil, and sugar, until light and bubbly.*.
• 3 in a seperate bowl, sift flour and baking powder.
• 4 add to the eggs, alternating with the milk.
• 5 stir only until texture is smooth, as little as possible.
• 6 if you wish, this is the time to add chocolate chips, nuts, raisins, or whatever.
• 7 pour into paper-lined muffin pan.
• 8 bake 20-25 minutes, until cupcakes are golden & a toothpick comes out clean.
• 9 cool before frosting.
• 10 icing:.
• 11 whip the icing sugar, butter, vanilla & add only enough milk for the icing to be smooth.
• 12 optional:.
• 13 in cupcake batter, you can add spices, flavourings, your can include chocolate chips and/or raisins and/or cocoa and/or coconut, etc. etc.
• 14 to the icing, you can add cocoa and/or mint, almond, orange extracts (or any other kind) to taste.
• 15 you can also add food colouring to the vanilla icing.
• 16 dip the top of frosted cupcakes into shaved chocolate, sprinkles, roasted coconut, candy, spices etc. etc.
• 17 let your kids go wild!
• 18 *the more you beat the eggs & sugar mix, the fluffier the cake will be.