Happy's

I was asked to bake for my cousin's baby shower and decided to make vanilla cupcakes with a creamed cottage cheese topping. They really spread a lot of happiness so from here on, they shall be called Happy's :-)


Ingredients

• 2 cups self raising flour
• 1 cup canola oil
• 1 cup milk (I used fat free milk)
• 3 eggs
• 2 cups sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla essence
• pinch of salt
• 1/2 cup creamed cottage cheese
• 1/2 cup whipping cream
• 1 cup icing sugar
• 1/4 teaspoon of red food colouring

Method

• Sift the flour in a bowl. Add to this the sugar and salt
• Add the canola and milk and mix (an electric beater makes life easy)
• Break the eggs into a cup, add vanilla essence to them, mix them and add to the above mix and beat for approximately minutes until batter is smooth
• Fill cupcake cases with the mix and bake for approximately 25 minutes in a preheated oven at 180C (this should yield about 24 cupcakes)
• Once baked, allow to cool for approximately 30 minutes
• In a separate bowl, mix the cottage cheese, icing sugar and cream until smooth (don't beat too hard as the mixture should be slightly runny)
• Add the food colouring and mix until blended and a light pink colour
• Pour a tablespoon of the cream mix onto the top of each cupcake. The mixture may run down the cupcake which is ok
• Top with garnish of your choice