In all of my years of cooking as well as recipe testing, these are genuinely the BEST Vanilla Cupcakes + the BEST Vanilla Frosting I bring ever had. When it comes to cupcakes, these volition live your novel best friend!
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Don't live fooled yesteryear the simplicity of vanilla-with-vanilla these cupcakes are out-of-this-world good. They're my tried-and-true. My go-to. My best friend of cupcakes, ane could say.
And speaking of best friends ...
... today is my best friend Jacquelyn's birthday!
She as well as I bring been friends since the seventh score ... as well as trust me, seventh score was a really long fourth dimension ago. Mmmm hmmmm, we've been friends for over xxx years ... as well as bring seen each other through a lot of life crud {to pose it nicely}.
I am as well as thence glad to bring been able to teach together alongside her for a distich of days inwards Savannah, GA the calendar week earlier concluding to early-celebrate her birthday alongside her! With Jacquelyn straightaway living inwards Portland, OR as well as me living inwards Lexington, NC, nosotros don't teach to run across each other nearly oft enough. But nosotros certain bring fun when nosotros do!
Check us out gettin' the birthday fun started alongside a distich of delicious dinners ...
Always, e'er expert times when nosotros teach together.
So inwards celebration of Jacquelyn's birthday, I decided to portion these scrumptious always-a-favorite, best-ever vanilla cupcakes alongside vanilla frosting.
The cupcake is tender as well as light. The frosting is fluffy as well as non heavy ... only the agency I beloved it. On it's own, each portion is fantastic. Put them together? as well as it's completely divine.
And only similar fourth dimension alongside a best friend, I e'er always wish at that topographic point were more.
Thank you lot for stopping yesteryear . We'd beloved to bring you lot dorsum soon!
Yield: 12 cupcakes
The BEST Vanilla Cupcakes + the BEST Vanilla Frosting
In all of my years of cooking as well as recipe testing, these are genuinely the BEST Vanilla Cupcakes + the BEST Vanilla Frosting I bring ever had. When it comes to cupcakes, these volition live your novel best friend!
prep time: 25 Mcook time: xxx Mtotal time: 55 M
ingredients:
Vanilla Cupcakes:
- 1 c. all-purpose flour
- 3/4 c. granulated sugar
- 1 1/2 tsp. baking powder
- Pinch of salt
- 3 T. butter, at room temperature
- 1/2 c. whole milk
- 1 egg
- 1 tsp. vanilla extract
Vanilla Frosting:
- 1 1/2 c. unsalted butter, softened
- 3 c. confectioners sugar
- 1 T. + 1 tsp. vanilla extract
- 3 T. milk
- Pinch salt
instructions:
How to create The BEST Vanilla Cupcakes + the BEST Vanilla Frosting
Vanilla Cupcakes:
- Put the flour, sugar, baking powder, salt, as well as butter inwards mixing bowl. Beat on deadening speed until everything is combined as well as you lot bring a crumb mixture alongside a sandy consistency. Gradually pour inwards one-half of the milk; shell until the milk is only incorporated.
- Whisk together the remaining milk (1/4 cup), egg, as well as vanilla. Pour into the flour mixture as well as shell until all ingredients are only incorporated.
- Beat for virtually unopen to other xxx seconds to ane infinitesimal until the batter is smooth. Do non over mix.
- Spoon batter into muffin pan cups lined alongside newspaper cupcake liners, filling cups 1/2 full.
- Bake at 325 degrees for xx - 25 minutes, or until low-cal golden as well as the cake springs dorsum when lightly touched. Cool slightly inwards the pan earlier removing cupcakes to a wire rack. Cool completely earlier frosting.
Vanilla Frosting:
- Beat butter inwards bowl of electrical mixer on medium speed until fluffy, virtually 1 minute.
- Reduce speed to depression as well as add together sugar, 1 loving cup at a time, beating for virtually fifteen seconds betwixt each addition. Increase speed to medium as well as shell until smooth, virtually iii minutes.
- Add salt, vanilla as well as milk, beating on depression speed to combine. Increase speed to medium as well as shell until fluffy, 3-4 minutes, stopping to scrape downwardly sides ane time or twice.
TRACEY'S NOTES
- This recipe makes 12 cupcakes. And it actually does brand 12! Fill your cups alone 1/2 full, equally this batter rises quite a bit. When I divided the batter betwixt alone 10 muffin cups, I had several that rose over the sides of the cups agency equally good much. If you're similar me, you'll experience similar there's non plenty batter to stretch to 12 cupcakes ... but at that topographic point actually is.
Cupcakes adapted from The Hummingbird Bakery Cookbook, frosting adapted from The Best Recipe yesteryear the editors of Cook's Illustrated magazine
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