Just Because I Was Craving Cake...

Here's the thing, I love baking, I love cake, I was craving cake, so I baked.... If only I could easily make everything that I was craving... 

Admittedly not the most exciting of cakes in the grand scheme of things, these are standard vanilla cupcakes with a smooth buttercream topping. They're easy to whip up for those days when all you want to do is eat some cake.

This is a baking post so let's not get too deep but I find that baking is so therapeutic when I'm stressed out. So the next time you're feeling a little down and want some cake, bake your own! Also, put away the electric whisk and just go back to basics. Using a wooden spoon and a plastic bowl is so much more fun than just chucking the ingredients into a machine. 

I bake a lot of different sweet treats but vanilla cupcakes are my go-to recipe when I literally just want to bake right now. They're easy to make and they taste good. There are a lot of vanilla cupcake recipes online but I always find that it's best to tweak them a little to get them to your desired taste and texture. 

As for the buttercream, there are so many variations when it comes to quantities of ingredients, and I've had some real disasters in the past, but the one thing that is super important is to use FRESH icing sugar. If it's been opened for a while and not stored in an airtight container, please don't use it to make buttercream. It will just taste stale and it will make the buttercream texture go all funny. 

I iced these cakes in record time as I just wanted to eat them, but it can also be so much fun to try out different decoration techniques. Hopefully next time I'll be posting some more extravagant looking cakes if I can resist eating them first!

What do you love to bake?