MALTESER CUPCAKES

200 gm butter softened
1 1/2 cups caster sugar
2 teaspoons vanilla
4 eggs
1/2 cup sour cream
1 3/4 cups self raising flour
maltesers ( i buy a big box, use what i need and eat the rest lol)

preheat oven to 180 c (350 F). fill 2 12 hole muffin tins with patty pans.

cream butter, sugar and vanilla.

add eggs 1 at a time

fold in flour and sour cream in 2 batches till well combined.

evenly fill the patty pans.


cook for approx. 15 minutes till a skewer comes out clean. should be just nicely brown.

cool in tins for 5 minutes then put on cooling rack.

cool completely. poke 1 malteser into cake.

ice with butter icing and sprinkle with crushed maltesers.

BUTTER ICING

250 gm butter softened
3 cups icing sugar
2 tablespoons milk
2 tablespoons cocoa

beat butter in electric mixer till pale and fluffy.
mix cocoa in to icing sugar
add 1/2 the icing sugar mix to butter and beat on low till combined.
add milk and rest of icing sugar and beat till combined.