The ultimate low effort cupcake recipe. From morning tea, to kid’s birthdays, to the school fete, there is never a bad time for a batch of these simple vanilla cupcakes!

Prep:
15 min
Cook:
15 min
Serves:
12

Ingredients

  1. 2 cups (300g) self-raising flour

  2. 3/4 cup (165g) caster sugar

  3. 3/4 cup (180ml) milk

  4. 125g butter, melted & cooled

  5. 2 large eggs

  6. 1 tsp Queen Natural Vanilla Extract

Icing

  1. 1 1/2 cups (225g) icing mixture

  2. 1 1/2 tbsp (30ml) milk

  3. Queen Rainbow Colours

  4. Queen Edible Wafer Daisies

Method

  1. Step 1

    Preheat oven to 200C (fan forced), Sift flour and sugar into a large bowl. In a small bowl (or large jug), beat eggs with a fork. Add milk, vanilla and cooled butter, stir to combine.

  2. Step 2

    Add egg & milk mixture to the sifted flour and stir with a metal spoon.

  3. Step 3

    Spoon into muffin sized paper cases (or a greased muffin pan) and bake for 12-15 minutes.

Method - Icing

  1. Step 1

    In a medium bowl, mix icing sugar, food colour and milk until smooth. Spread on cooled cupcakes and top with sprinkles.

Comments & Reviews

Yum this recipe is amazing and delicious quick and easy for anyone to make in less than an hour and love the spongy ness of the cupcakes

Rose

So good

Doris

super good! idk if this was just my oven but the heat was too high and they started to go a bit brown but the inside was raw. i put it too 150 and they came out amazing! delicious spongy texture and sweet icing too

GJ

Hi Greta, we find that 160 is perfect for the recipe, but of course some ovens are slightly different and even the placement in the oven can cause cakes to cook more quickly. For example placing the cupcakes on higher rack in the oven will cook them faster than if they were placed on a lower rack. Sounds like 150 is the sweet spot for your oven 🙂

Queen

These cupcakes were amazing! So easy, so quick and so fluffy and yummy. Will definitely make again

Kate

They are sososososo lovely and sponge l love them

Javanthie

Love how quick and easy… my go to never fail recipe

Tasty

I love this, this recepe is sooooo easy and simple for kids to make

Anneke:)

Yummmmmmmmm
So good

Gottabee

its ok

sabiine

So nice I like it

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Joy

Appetizing

Edna

Delicious

Amelia

A great easy recipe to make with my niece. Works every time.

Sarah