Vanilla Cupcakes with White chocolate Butter-cream and decorations

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  Ingredients
  
  
  For Sponge
  
  
  110g unsalted butter, softened at room temperature
• 110g caster sugar or normal granaluated sugar
• 2 eggs, lightly beaten
• 1-2 tsp vanilla extract
• 110g self-raising flour
• 1-2 tbsp milk
  
  
  For Butter Cream and decorations
  
  
  130g Unsalted butter, softened at room temperature
  70g icing sugar
  Food Colouring
  1 tsp vanilla extract
  100g White Chocolate melted for 1 minute in microwave
  
  
  Method
  
  
  Preheat oven to 180 degree Celsius and line a muffin/cupcake tray with 12 paper cases.
  
  
  Cream the butter and sugar together in a bowl. Beat eggs with a fork or whisk and add them to the butter slowly with the vanilla extract.
  
  
  Fold in the flour with a metal spoon to avoid losing the air bubbles and add the milk until the mixture is of a dropping consistency. 
  
  
  Spoon the mixture into paper cupcake cases until they are half full.Bake in the oven for 15-20 minutes, until they are golden-brown on top.
  
  
  Insert a skewer into one of the cakes to see if it comes out clean. That way you know they are ready. Remove them from the baking tin and leave to cool on a cooling rack.
  
  
  
  Butter-Cream
  
  
  
  To make the butter-cream, beat the butter in a mixing bowl until softened. Add the icing sugar and beat until smooth. Add a few drops of food colouring and vanilla extract and mix well. Then add about 2/3 of the melted chocolate and mix well (this is done best with an electric whisk and should  only have a light colour)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Either pipe the butter-cream on top of the cupcake sponges or spread the butter-cream around the top of the cake and dab it with the flat side of a knife to create spikes!!
  
  
  Chocolate decorations
  
  
  
  Mix the leftover melted white chocolate with a few drops of colouring to make coloured chocolate. Pour this into a small piping bag created with grease-proof paper and pipe onto flat grease-proof paper any designs as you wish. It will harden after a few minutes.. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Decorate the cupcakes with these decorations and if there are any leftover melted chocolate left, drizzle them over the cupcakes!!..