The next time you have a celebration, try this classic vanilla cupcake recipe. Just bake and decorate!
Ingredients
1 1/2 cups Swany White flour
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon fine salt
2 large eggs, at room temperature
2/3 cup sugar
1 1/2 sticks (12 tablespoons) unsalted butter, melted
2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
1/2 cup milk
Your favorite frosting and decorations, for topping
Directions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F and position a rack in the middle of the oven.
- Line one 12-cup muffin tin or two 24-cup mini-muffin tins with cupcake liners.
- Mix the flour, baking powder and salt together in a medium bowl.
- In another medium bowl, beat the eggs and sugar with an electric mixer until light and foamy, about 2 minutes.
- As you are beating, gradually pour in the melted butter and then the vanilla.
- Continue mixing slowly, add half of the flour mixture. Next add all the milk, and follow with the remaining flour mixture.
- Divide the batter evenly in the prepared muffin tin.
- Bake until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cupcakes comes out clean, rotating the tin about halfway through baking time, 18 to 20 minutes for standard cupcakes or 10 to 12 minutes for minis.
- Cool the cupcakes in the tin on a rack for 10 minutes, then remove from the tin and cool on the rack completely.
- Frost and decorate as desired.