10th Day Of Cakemas - Santa Inspired Cupcakes

Hello everyone Welcome back to cakemas day 10! I can't believe we are already at day 10 December is going so quickly. Anyway I feel like a recipe is way overdue so let's get right into it. P.S. I didn't decorate mine to look like santa but you definately could. (this bakes 12 cupcakes)
  

You Will Need:

• 115g Unsalted Butter
• 115g Self Raising Flour
• 115g Caster Sugar
  
• 2 Medium Eggs 
• 75g Choppped Glacier Cherries
• 2tsp Vanilla Extract

For The Icing:

• 100g Icing Sugar
• 50g Unsalted Butter
• 1tsp Vanilla Extract
• 12 Mini Candy Canes (Optional)

Method:

• Preheat your oven to 180 (fan) (gas mark 6 / 200C) 
• Make your vanilla cupcake batter ( If you would like the full break down of ingredients Click Here.)
• Make sure your glacier cherries are finely chopped so they don't sink and then add them into your mixture.
• Pop your Cupcakes in the oven for 15 - 20 minutes and then leave to cool for a further 10 - 15 minutes
• Make your butter cream (If you would like the full break down of ingredients Click Here.) 
• Pipe your buttercream however you'd like to and then decorate with whatever you would like, I used mini candy canes.

Hope you enjoyed this recipe and thanks to my friend who helped make these adorable and tasty cupcakes. See you next time for cakemas day 11!

Lyeira