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Vanilla cupcakes

Name: Vanilla cupcakes
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 12 servings
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 1 1/2 cups maida (all-purpose flour, plain flour); 3/4 cup for the batter plus 1 cup powdered for frosting sugar; 3/4 cup plus 2 tbsp softened, divided butter; 2 egg; 1/2 cup milk; 1 1/2 tsp baking powder; 2 tsp vanilla essence (vanilla flavouring, imitation vanilla extract); a pinch salt; 1 tbsp sprinkles (hundreds and thousands)

Small cakes, big swirls of buttercream, zero sharing required.

45 minTime

3 gProtein each

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Grandma's wayButter cupcakes with American buttercream.

The original

288kcalsame

3 gproteinsame

0 gfibresame

45minutessame

Classic vanilla cupcakes.

Per serving, worked out from the ingredient table.

Ingredients

Maida (all-purpose flour, plain flour)1½ cups

Sugar¾ cup for the batter plus 1 cup powdered for frosting

Butter¾ cup plus 2 tbsp, softened, divided

Egg2

Milk½ cup

Baking powder1½ tsp

Vanilla essence (vanilla flavouring, imitation vanilla extract)2 tsp

Salta pinch

Sprinkles (hundreds and thousands)1 tbsp

Method

5 steps

1Heat the oven to 175 C and line a 12 cup muffin tray with paper cases.
2Cream 115 g butter with the sugar until fluffy. Beat in eggs and half the vanilla.
3Fold in maida, baking powder and salt with the milk. Fill cases two thirds full.
4Bake 18 to 20 minutes and cool fully.
5Beat the remaining butter with the powdered sugar, the rest of the vanilla and a spoon of milk until fluffy. Pipe swirls and add sprinkles.

Serve it like this

Serve on a cake stand or tray at room temperature, buttercream swirled high and topped with sprinkles.

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Vanilla cupcakes

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