Vanilla Cupcakes Recipe
Easy recipe for vanilla cupcakes, that makes delicious light and fluffy cupcakes.
Ingredients
- 175 g Self raising flour
- 175 g Butter
- 175 g Castor sugar
- 3 large Eggs
- 1 tbsp Vanilla extract
- 1 pinch Salt
Instructions
- Pre heat your oven to 170°C (340°F), fan oven setting, and line your cupcake / muffin tin with cupcake cases.
- 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.
- 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 castor sugar to the mixture and mix this in until they are all combined and the mixture looks light and fluffy.
- 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.
- Gradually add the dry ingredients to your wet ingredients in your stand mixer, mixing well after each addition. Once you have added all your dry ingredients then give your stand mixer a scrape around the sides and on the bottom to make sure everything is being mixed in and give this a final quick mix in your stand mixer, you don’t want to over mix your cupcake cake batter.
- 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.
- 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.
- Let your cupcakes cool in the tray for a about 5 minutes, then transfer them to a wire rack to cool completely.
- Now it’s the really fun part, you can decorate your cupcakes with any icing, 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.