Bubblegum Cupcakes

For the vanilla cupcakes:
Preheat the oven to 180ºC. Line the muffin tin with 9 standard size cupcake liners.

Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in one egg at a time until light. Add vanilla extract. Sift in flour and baking powder and mix well while gradually adding milk.

Pour 1 ice cream scoop full of batter into each cupcake liner (or just fill it 2/3 full) and bake for about 18 minutes. Check with a toothpick starting around the 15-minute point.

Once baked, let cool on a cooling rack.

For the bubblegum buttercream frosting:
Cream butter until light, fluffy and pale. Add the icing sugar in batches. Beat in the bubblegum syrup and vanilla extract. Add the last batch of icing sugar, beat for a couple of minutes with an electric blender, stand mixer, or just a plain old spatula.

Once whipped, pop it in an icing bag with whichever tip you like and frost away. I sprinkled cotton candy sprinkles on the cupcake!