Vanilla Cupcakes -S&SB Challenge

Vanilla Cupcakes are this month's challenge at Sweet &Simple Bakes..Thanks Maria n Rosie for this delicious cupcakes with buttercream icing..Just loved this cupcakes wit simple butter cream icing...i doubled the ingredients and did almost more than 20 cupcakes, they just vanished within a day... we had for snacks, after dinner as dessert also for next day breakfast, none doesnt want to lose their chance to taste this fabulous spongy vanilla cupcakes..i did chocolate buttercream icing and strawberry cream icing for my cupcakes...

175g Self-raising flour
1½ tsp Baking powder
175g  Butter
175g  Sugar
3 large Eggs
2 tbsp Milk
1 tsp Vanilla extract

Preheat the oven to 180°C. Sift the self-raising flour and baking powder into a large bowl, and then add the butter, caster sugar, eggs, milk and vanilla extract. Beat together until well mixes, do not  over mix the mixture. Spoon the mixture equally into the prepared paper cases and bake in the preheated oven for about 20 minutes. Leave to cool in the tin for 5 minutes and lets completely cool on a wire rack.
 

 
Buttercream Icing:
1cup Butter (softened)
1cup Icing sugar
1tsbp Milk
1/4tsp Vanilla extract
2tbsp Chocolate powder
1/4tsp Strawberry essence
few drops Rose food colour
Tutty fruity pieces
Icing sugar
 
Beat the butter until soft. Add the icing sugar and stir until it’s just mixed in, then add the milk and vanilla and beat until light and fluffy. Divide in two bowls and add chocolate powder in one bowl and add rose food colour and strawberry essence in another bowl...mix well..
 
Spread the icing thickly with a knife on top of each cupcake and place the tutty fruity pieces over the strawberry icing and springle icing sugar over the chocolate icing..