All people adore cupcakes! You just need this recipe for vanilla cupcakes. The texture is light, fluffy, and melt-in-your-mouth wonderful, and they are quite simple to create. These cupcakes are ideal for birthday celebrations and baby showers, and I often prepare a double batch for gatherings because they always go quickly. Homemade cupcakes taste much better than commercial cupcake mixes and are quick and simple to create.
Ingredients for Vanilla Cupcakes:
The ingredients for this recipe are straightforward and yield exactly 12 cupcakes: all-purpose flour, butter, sugar, eggs, buttermilk, baking powder, salt, and vanilla. Buttermilk and softened butter combine to make an incredibly soft cupcake crumb that simply melts in your mouth. Additionally, if you haven’t tried our homemade vanilla extract, which only requires two ingredients, it will elevate your baked goods.
How to Make Vanilla Cupcakes:
You will quickly become a master of these cupcakes and produce bakery-quality treats.
Mix the dry ingredients—flour, baking soda, and salt—in a medium bowl.
Softened butter and sugar should be beaten for five minutes on high speed in a separate bowl (or the bowl of your stand mixer).
Add the eggs one at a time, mixing well after each addition. Next, add the vanilla and scrape the basin.
Reduce the mixer’s speed to medium and add the flour in thirds, adding the 1/2 cup buttermilk in between, mixing well after each addition.
Fill 12 lined muffin pans with batter until they are 2/3 full. Bake for 20 to 23 minutes at 350 degrees Fahrenheit in the center of the oven, or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. After five minutes of cooling in the pan, put the cupcakes on a wire rack to finish cooling.
Tips for the BEST Cupcakes
- Room Temperature Ingredients
In order to maintain a uniform batter consistency, your eggs, buttermilk, and butter must be at room temperature.
2. Alternate Adding Flour and Buttermilk
This keeps the mixture well-blended and homogeneous. The creamed butter can become saturated and separate if you add all the flour or buttermilk at once. Between each addition, stir thoroughly.
3. Measure Correctly
Use separate measuring cups for wet and dry components, as directed. Watch our video on measuring ingredients for consistently fantastic outcomes.
4. Don’t Overfill
Cupcake liners should only be filled about two-thirds full, else a muffin top will result. There should be precise enough batter if you split it equally among 12 cupcakes. Portioning is made simpler by using a trigger-release Ice Cream Scoop.
How to Decorate Cupcakes
It’s time to decorate your cupcakes once they have cooled to room temperature. This is a fantastic vanilla cupcake base that works well with almost any frosting and topping. Choose your favorite icing from our wide selection.
