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Easy Vanilla Cupcake Recipe

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As I type this everyone is going crazy for banana bread, which I am sure is delicious, for me, I love to make up batches of cupcakes and one of my favourites to make are my easy go-to vanilla cupcakes. Not only are they light and fluffy, but you can be extra creative with your decoration – adding pretty buttercream icing and sprinkles, lemon-flavoured icing or even sweets or fruit toppings.

For today’s baking, I just wanted to make classic vanilla cupcakes, buttercream and rainbow sprinkles for a dash of colour, because I had unicorn sprinkles in my cupboard that I adore, plus who doesn’t want to eat 12 cupcakes!!!

Time To Bake – Easy Vanilla Cupcakes

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Servings: 6-12

Prep Time: 15-30 minutes

Cooking Time: 15-20 minutes

Ingredients

For the cupcake mixture

  • 120g butter, softened
  • 2 eggs
  • 120g self-raising flour
  • 120g caster sugar
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract

For the buttercream icing

  • 140g butter, softened
  • 275g icing sugar
  • 1-2 tbsp milk
  • A few drops of food colouring (optional – depends on how you want to decorate)

Directions

  1. Heat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4 and line a 12-hole muffin tin with cupcake paper cases.
  2. Using a stand mixer, like a KitchenAid or K-Mix, cream the butter and caster sugar together until the mixture is light and fluffy.
  3. Then add the eggs and vanilla extract and beat into the butter mixture a little at a time.
  4. Fold in the flour, adding a little milk until the mixture drops perfectly off the spoon.
  5. Divide the cupcake mixture, evenly, into the paper cases until they are three-quarters full.
  6. Cook the cupcakes for 15-20 mins or until slightly golden-brown on top and a skewer inserted into one of the cakes comes out clean.
  7. Set aside to cool for 5-10 minutes, before placing onto a wire rack.

To Make The Buttercream Frosting

  1. To make the buttercream frosting, beat the butter until very soft. Then add the icing sugar, a little at a time, and beat until smooth using a little milk. Add more milk if necessary to ensure your mixture is smooth and creamy.
  2. Optional: If you want to make your buttercream a different colour, add food colouring and mix well.
  3. Spoon the buttercream into a piping bag and add a nozzle of your choice, I love the star nozzle. Then ice the cupcakes in swirls, starting from the centre and working outwards.
  4. Final touch, add sprinkles, fruit, sweets, biscuits – anything you want to decorate your vanilla cupcake.

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Click for more recipes, including my super quick smoothie bowl, matcha tea ice lollies now the weather is getting better, the delicious summer fruit pavlova, my comforting minestrone soup that is great for batch cooking and my all-time favourite chocolate Oreo brownies that are always a hit.

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