Hey everyone it's Sam here from Sugar Spun Run and today I'm showing you how to make my favorite vanilla cupcakes.
Every good baker needs a classic go-to vanilla cupcake recipe, and this one is
my favorite. it's super simple to make and it yields soft buttery, springy, light,
moist, I could go on forever, perfect vanilla cupcakes. I really think
you guys are going to love this one so let's get right to it. The first thing
you'll want to do is pre-heat your oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Next, you are
going to need 6 tablespoons of unsalted butter, and it's really important that
this butter be softened to room temperature. We're going to add this to
the bowl of a stand mixer today, but if you don't have a stand mixer you can
just use a large bowl and an electric hand mixer instead.
Now for all of you who like to bake using weights, don't forget I always provide metric
measurements in the description below or over on my blog. Now the next thing
you're going to need is 3/4 cup of granulated sugar. We'll add this in with our butter,
and I'm also going to add 1/4 cup of tightly packed light brown sugar.
Now a lot of vanilla cupcake recipes stick to just plain, regular granulated
sugar. I feel that this small addition of brown sugar really helps bring out a
great flavor, and adds a nice moistness to the cupcakes.
So now we're going to use the paddle attachment on our stand mixer. We're going to cream together the
butter and the sugar until it is completely creamy and well combined. It's
really important when you're making these cupcakes that you don't have any
lumps from the butter remaining, so make sure everything is nicely creamed together.
Now I always recommend stopping periodically to scrape the sides and
bottom of the bowl while you're mixing everything together. You just don't want
your mixer to miss anything on the sides or the bottoms.
Alright our butter and sugar are nicely creamed now, so we're going to add one large egg, and you want
this to be at room temperature, in fact, it's ideal that all of your
ingredients be at room temperature. That's going to help them nicely
combine and it's going to give you a nice smooth batter that bakes such nice perfect of vanilla cupcakes.
We will also add one and half teaspoons of pure vanilla extract. Just stir everything together again.
At this point, we have all of our wet ingredients, or just about all of our wet
ingredients very nicely combined. So we are going to now need a separate bowl to
combine our dry ingredients. Now the first thing you're going to need is one
and a third cup of all-purpose flour. Put this in a separate bowl. To this bowl,
we're going to add 1/2 teaspoon of baking soda, 1/2 teaspoon of baking
powder, and 1/2 teaspoon of salt, and I'm just going to use a whisk to whisk these
ingredients together until they're really well combined. So now we're going
to actually bring back our wet ingredients, and we are going to need one
more wet ingredient before we start combining our flour. You are also going
to need 3/4 cup of buttermilk, and again it's better if this is at room
temperature. So what we're going to do now is we're going to gradually
alternate adding our dry ingredients, and our buttermilk, to our wet ingredients,
starting and ending with the dry ingredients. Now I'm also, as you might
have noticed, I've taken my bowl off of my stand mixer, and I'm going to do this
by hand. I'm going to use my spatula to very gently fold in the ingredients,
starting with the flour and then the buttermilk, and then the flour, because
doing this by hand keeps us from over mixing our batter. If you over mix this
batter, you can actually end up with dense dry cupcakes, and you don't want
that. We'll start by adding about a third of the flour mixture and just gently
stirring this in, followed by some of our buttermilk. So as you can see, after I add
each ingredient I'm just stirring until it's mostly absorbed by the batter, and
then moving on to adding the next.
So our batter is looking pretty good. So now you're going to want to grab a 12
count muffin tin, and you're going to want to line this with paper liners.
Alternatively you can grease and flour every cavity, that will be fine too. So
what we're going to do now is I'm going to portion the batter into each muffin
liner, and I like to use an ice cream scoop it just makes the process a little
bit neater. There's one thing I really want to mention about filling up your
muffin liners, is you do not want to fill them more than three-quarters of the way
full. In fact I really recommend just filling them about 2/3 of the way full.
If you fill them up too much, they're going to spread over your cupcake tin.
They can deflate after they come out of the oven, so really do not overfill them,
and if you have any leftover batter it's better to discard that rather than to
try to fill up your muffin tins any more than you need to. We'll transfer our
vanilla cupcakes to our 350 degree fahrenheit preheated oven where they
will need to bake for about 17 to 18 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in
the center comes out clean or preferably with a few moist crumbs.
Make sure you let your vanilla cupcakes cool completely in the muffin tin before you
remove them, and especially before you frost them. So I've let these cool for
enough time that they're no longer warm at all, and I'm actually going to be
covering them today with my chocolate cream cheese frosting. You can use
whatever frosting you would like. I'm going to leave several links in the
description below. First I'll leave the link to the
chocolate cream cheese because this one is really good. So I'm going to frost them.
and if you're wondering this is just a large Ateco tip, it's an eight four six.
and you know I'm gonna top these off with sprinkles. My husband is dying
behind the camera right now, because he hates it when I use sprinkles, because he
finds them everywhere for the rest of the week.
Okay, once you've decorated them, your vanilla cupcakes are ready to enjoy, I really think you guys are going to
love how moist, and flavorful, and soft these are. These are my favorite vanilla
cupcakes. If you guys try this one out, please leave me a comment and let me
know what you think. I would really appreciate it.
thanks so much for watching and I will see you next time.
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