*Easy Peasy Cupcakes*

Cupcakes so easy a child could do it

Ingredients

• 2 large eggs
• 1 tsp vanilla essence (optional)
• 125g/4oz caster sugar
• 125g/4oz soft margarine
• 125g/4oz self-raising flour
• To decorate (optional)
• tubes of writing icing
• marshmallows, white and coloured
• food colouring, for icing
• coloured sweets

Instructions

STEP 1:

1. Heat the oven to 180C/350F/Gas 4. Put all the ingredients in a bowl and beat them together until the mixture is smooth and slightly lighter in colour.

STEP 2:

2. Line a bun tin or cupcake tin with paper cake cases and half-fill each case with the cake mixture.

STEP 3:

3. Cook the cakes for 18-20 minutes. You can tell they are done when they have risen up, are golden in colour, and spring back into shape when lightly pressed.

STEP 4:

4. The cupcakes can be decorated using a basic icing, plus marshmallows, writing icing, food colouring and coloured sweets. You can even make a cupcake farm with animals such as sheep, piglets and dogs.

STEP 5: