How to Make Easy Vanilla Cupcakes

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I love this easy how to make easy vanilla cupcakes recipe. Theses cupcakes are delicious, they are so quick and simple to make. These cupcakes also only need a few ingredients, and they have such a lovely light and fluffy texture to them too. These are so good they could have come out of a bakery!

I just love making cupcakes, especially using this recipe, this is the only recipe I use when I make cupcakes other than when I am making chocolate cupcakes. I know it’s called Vanilla cupcakes, but a little tip is you can swap out the vanilla for any flavour that you want, so I like to change it up sometimes and use lemon or almond flavours. The other great thing with this recipe is that you can make the vanilla cupcakes and then just flavour the buttercream icing and pretty much all flavours work well with vanilla!

I like to bake things that are quick easy and delicious, which I think suits most of us these days with our busy lives. Making cupcakes is a great treat or desert that you can make in under and hour and with this recipe the ingredients that you need you will probably already have in your house, so no need to make a trip to the shop before baking.

This recipe is so easy that you will have it down pat in no time. This is also a great one to make with the kids too, as it is quick and simply so you are sure to keep their attention span for just long enough..

What you need to make vanilla cupcakes

Tools i used

• Stand Mixer
• Cupcake / muffin cases
• Muffin baking tray
• Ice cream scoop (this is optional, but it’s what I use to measure the mixture into the cupcake cases)
• Kitchen Scales
• Silicone spatula

Ingredients

• 175g Self Raising Flour
• 175g Castor Sugar
• 175g Butter
• 3 Large Eggs
• A Pinch of Salt
• 1 tbsp Pure Vanilla Extract

How to Make Easy Vanilla Cupcakes

Prepare and preheat

Preheat your oven to 170°C (340°F), fan oven setting, and line your cupcake / muffin tin with cupcake cases.

Dry Ingredients

In a separate bowl sift your self-raising flour and add the salt to this if you are adding salt, give this a mix to make sure they are evenly combined. Set this to one side for now.

Mix Butter and Vanilla

Add the softened butter and vanilla to the bowl of your stand mixer and mix these together until they are combined, this should only take a few seconds. By adding the vanilla to the butter, this helps to enhance the vanilla flavour.

Add the Sugar

Add the castor sugar to the mixture and mix this in until they are all combined and the mixture looks light and fluffy.

Mix in the Eggs

Crack the eggs into a separate bowl to make sure you catch any shell if it brakes off when you are cracking your eggs, give these a little mix. Gradually add this mixture to your butter and sugar in your stand mixer until they are all fully combined.

Combine Wet and Dry Ingredients

Gradually add the dry ingredients to your wet ingredients in your stand mixer. Mix well after each addition. Once you have added all your dry ingredients, give your stand mixer a scrape around the sides and on the bottom to make sure everything is mixed in, the give this a final quick mix in your stand mixer. Make sure you don’t over mix your cupcake cake batter.

Fill the Cupcake Cases

Evenly measure out your cake batter between your cupcake cases, you want to fill these about 2/3 full with the cake batter. I use an ice cream scoop to help me fill the cases evenly.

Let’s Bake

Place your cupcake tray into the middle shelf of your preheated oven and bake these for 18-20 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the centre comes out clean.

Cool you Cupcakes

Let your cupcakes cool in the tray for a about 5 minutes, then transfer them to a wire rack to cool completely.

Time to decorate!

Now it’s the really fun part, you can decorate your cupcakes with any icing, frosting or topping that you choose. I decorated mine with vanilla buttercream, but you could also use chocolate ganache if you wanted to add some chocolate to these.

Storage & Shelf Life

All cupcakes should be stored in an airtight container. Uniced cupcakes can stay fresh stored at room temperature for about 2-3 days, but if you store them in the fridge, they will stay fresh for about a week.

Iced cupcakes should be stored in the fridge in an airtight container and they will stay fresh in the fridge for about 3 days. These Cupcakes taste best at room temperature though, so when you are planning to serve these, take them out of the fridge about 10-20 minutes before serving so they can come to room temperature.

Cupcakes can also be frozen too, individually cling wrap the cupcake and then pop them in a zip lock bag, and place them in the freezer. Cupcakes can last for 2-3 months in the freezer so make sure you add the date to your zip lock bag. When you are ready to ice, take the cupcakes out from the freezer and defrost in the fridge overnight or on the counter at room temperature for about 30 minutes.

Tips

You could make these chocolate chip vanilla cupcakes if you fancy by adding 100g of chocolate chips too! If you choose to add these, you want to add these at the end of step 6 and gently fold these through the mixture with a spatula.

Make sure you don’t over bake as this will dry out your cupcakes.

Final Word

So, there you have it, my favourite go to recipe for vanilla sponge cupcakes and the secrets to baking light, fluffy cupcakes. These cupcakes are perfect for any occasion, but you could even just simply bake a batch for yourself! I love this recipe for baking with little bakers too, as they are easy enough for to master. The other great thing with this recipe is you will probably have the ingredients already in the house so you don’t need to make a special trip to the supermarket before you get baking! These cupcakes will never let you down. So, what are you waiting for? Get your apron on and start baking yourself some happiness in the shape of a cupcake!

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