(Pink) Cupcake Recipe please?

lightisfading

Can anyone give me a good recipe for cupcakes with frosting please, one that I can colour pink (I'm armed with pink food paste!). We have a fundraising cake stall at work each year for the Think Pink (cancer) charity and this year I want to do pink cupcakes. I've not had any experience with the frosting on top but how hard can it be? (Having a trial run though!). They need to taste AND look good as looking good = more sales!

angeltreats

Do you want the whole cupcake to be pink or just the frosting?

If it's just the frosting, you could make up some thickish buttercream, add a bit of food colouring and pipe it out using a piping bag. You could probably just add a few drops of food colouring to any cupcake recipe if you wanted the whole thing to be pink.

This:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/database/easypeasycupcakes_74799.shtml

is very similar to the cupcake recipe I use and it always turns out well.

lightisfading

Thanks for the link, that looks good I thought all-pink cupcakes might look cute, though appreciate the normal yellow-ness of the cake might not mix well with pink food colour - I'll give it a go today though on practice run.

Stupid question but how do you make buttercream I wouldn't say i'm a bad cook but haven't made that before! (have made american style cream cheese frosting but im not that keen on it)

Outdoorlass

There is one in the free Asda magazine too, I was just looking at it myself.

angeltreats

Here you go:

http://allrecipes.co.uk/recipe/6110/buttercream-icing.aspx

If you need to stiffen it, just add a bit more icing sugar. And don't use margarine, it'll be disgusting!:rotfl: