Pink Lemonade Cupcakes

3/4 Cup caster sugar

100g butter, softened

2 eggs

2 tsp vanilla essence

1 1/2 Cup plain flour

2 tsp baking powdere
1/2 Cup lemonade
few drops red food colouring
Cream butter and sugar until pale and most of the sugar has dissolved.  Beat in eggs one at a time.  Stir in vanilla .  Add the dry ingredients and beat until combined.  Stir in the lemonade and red food colouring (enough to make quite a vivid pink - once it is baked it will look lighter.  Half fill lined cupcake trays with the mix.  Bake @ 175 degrees C for 20-25 mins.  When cool ice with lemon buttercream.

Lemon Buttercream

3 Cups icing sugar

100g butter, softened

2 Tbs lemon juice

pinch of salt

few drops of food colouring  - I used yellow

Beat the butter until pale and fluffy, add the icing a third at a time beating for 2mins between each addition.  Add lemon juice, salt & colour and beat, add more icing sugar if it's not thick enough or more lemon juice if it is too thin.

I sprinkled pink sugar over the cupcakes after icing, but you could leave them as is or use other sprinkles.