Very Vanilla Cupcakes

I have been craving cupcakes all week!  My oven has been broken since Christmas Eve and now it’s finally fixed!  So I guess that’s why I’m craving them so bad.

I finally had to break down and make some cupcakes.  I decided I wanted something with a nice vanilla taste to it.  Nothing over powering, but definitely more vanilla than usual.  This is what I came up with and I use them now every time I make vanilla cupcakes.

Ingredients:

3 cups of all-purpose flour

1 Tbsp. baking flour

1/2 Tsp. salt

2 sticks of butter at room temp

2 cups of sugar

4 eggs

2 Tsp. vanilla extract

1 cup milk

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Line cupcake pan with liners.  Mix flour baking powder and salt (I mixed mine in my food processor to make the flour a little finer).    In a separate bowl, cream sugar and butter together till fluffy.  Beat in eggs one at a time.  Add vanilla.  Add dry ingredients slowly and alternate with the milk.

Pour batter into cupcake liners and bake for 20 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.  Decorate with your favorite icing.  Makes 24 cupcakes.

I used Wilton’s Buttercream icing with the following changes:

3 tablespoons of milk instead of 2 tablespoons

2 teaspoons of vanilla extract instead of 1 teaspoon

 

This is how Emily chose to decorate them.  Aren’t they cute?  She just had fun with a gel icing tube that we had.  Get the kids and have a blast!