In all of my years of cooking together with recipe testing, these are genuinely the BEST Vanilla Cupcakes + the BEST Vanilla Frosting I convey ever had. When it comes to cupcakes, these volition hold out your novel best friend!
Don't hold out fooled past times 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 together with I convey been friends since the seventh score ... together with trust me, seventh score was a really long fourth dimension ago. Mmmm hmmmm, we've been friends for over thirty years ... together with convey seen each other through a lot of life crud {to pose it nicely}.
I am together with then glad to convey been able to instruct together amongst her for a twosome of days inward Savannah, GA the calendar week earlier concluding to early-celebrate her birthday amongst her! With Jacquelyn straight off living inward Portland, OR together with me living inward Lexington, NC, nosotros don't instruct to encounter each other nearly ofttimes enough. But nosotros certain convey fun when nosotros do!
Check us out gettin' the birthday fun started amongst a twosome of delicious dinners ...
Always, ever adept times when nosotros instruct together.
So inward celebration of Jacquelyn's birthday, I decided to portion these scrumptious always-a-favorite, best-ever vanilla cupcakes amongst vanilla frosting.
The cupcake is tender together with light. The frosting is fluffy together with non heavy ... but the agency I honey it. On it's own, each portion is fantastic. Put them together? together with it's completely divine.
And but similar fourth dimension amongst a best friend, I ever always wish at that spot were more.
The BEST Vanilla Cupcakes + the BEST Vanilla Frosting
Vanilla Cupcakes
Source: Cupcakes adapted from The Hummingbird Bakery Cookbook
Ingredients
- 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
- Put the flour, sugar, baking powder, salt, together with butter inward mixing bowl. Beat on tiresome speed until everything is combined together with you lot convey a crumb mixture amongst a sandy consistency. Gradually pour inward one-half of the milk; crunch until the milk is but incorporated.
- Whisk together the remaining milk (1/4 cup), egg, together with vanilla. Pour into the flour mixture together with crunch until all ingredients are but incorporated.
- Beat for nigh closed to other thirty seconds to ane infinitesimal until the batter is smooth. Do non over mix.
- Spoon batter into muffin pan cups lined amongst newspaper cupcake liners, filling cups 1/2 full.
- Bake at 325 degrees for twenty - 25 minutes, or until low-cal golden together with the cake springs dorsum when lightly touched. Cool slightly inward the pan earlier removing cupcakes to a wire rack. Cool completely earlier frosting.
NOTE: This recipe makes 12 cupcakes. And it actually does brand 12! Fill your cups exclusively 1/2 full, every bit this batter rises quite a bit. When I divided the batter betwixt exclusively 10 muffin cups, I had several that rose over the sides of the cups agency also much. If you're similar me, you'll experience similar there's non plenty batter to stretch to 12 cupcakes ... but at that spot actually is.
Vanilla Frosting
Frosting adapted from The Best Recipe by the editors of Cook's Illustrated magazine
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 c. unsalted butter, softened
- 3 c. confectioners sugar
- 1 T. + 1 tsp. vanilla extract
- 3 T. milk
- Pinch salt
- Beat butter inward bowl of electrical mixer on medium speed until fluffy, nigh 1 minute.
- Reduce speed to depression together with add together sugar, 1 loving cup at a time, beating for nigh xv seconds betwixt each addition. Increase speed to medium together with crunch until smooth, nigh three minutes.
- Add salt, vanilla together with milk, beating on depression speed to combine. Increase speed to medium together with crunch until fluffy, 3-4 minutes, stopping to scrape downwards sides ane time or twice.
Enjoy!
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