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Hi Guys, I'm Laura Vitale, and on this episode of Laura in the Kitchen I'm going to show you how to make Vanilla Cupcakes from scratch
with an amazing raspberry buttercream frosting.
They're easy to make, they're cheap, they're a total crowd pleaser,
everybody loves them, and they look.. look how beautiful they look.
I mean, seriously, Let's get in the kitchen, lets start cooking and let's start impressing some people.
Let's Do It!
You'll need some all purpose flour, granulated sugar, room temperature un-salted butter, whole milk, salt, baking powder, eggs and vanilla extract. And in a little bit I'll show you the remaining ingredients for the raspberry buttercream.
Alright, first thing we're going to do is take our butter, that's one stick of un-salted room temperature butter (very important).
.. And your one cup of sugar.
.. And we're going to cream this together till it's nice and creamy smooth.
It's going to be a little bit loud. Here we go.
My sugar and butter are nice and creamy, now I'm going to add in two whole eggs, and two teaspoons of vanilla extract.
Now these are really yummy vanilla cupcakes, so you want to make sure you give them a nice amount of vanilla.
Alright.
Back on.
My butter and sugar and egg mixture is nice and fluffy.
Now make sure you use a spatula and from the bottom up, just scrape it down, you want everything to be really well incorporated.
Now we're going to add in the all purpose flour.
And the baking powder and salt. Now the salt is very little. I always put salt whenever I'm making anything sweet because it acts the same way it does in a savory dish.
It brings out the flavors of the ingredients so, always add salt, even when making dessert, it makes a huge difference.
So put this on low, otherwise you'll get a big POOF of flour, and then slowly add the milk.
And this is going to be dense kind of batter, it's not going to be a smooth liquid batter.
They're going to be a really delicious moist cupcakes, and you want to make sure not to over mix, otherwise you'll get bread instead of cupcakes. It will be tough and dry.
That's it! See that!
Just enough to have it incorporated.
Perfect.
This is the perfect batter. There are no lumps.
You never want to over mix when you are making a cake batter.
So, make sure your oven is pre-heated to 350 degrees F.
OK, this is going to make 12 cupcakes and I'm going to use an ice cream scooper to fill them because it works perfectly every time.
Look at that! I'm just going to do the remaining cupcakes.
I filled all of the cupcake liners with the batter, now I'm going to put these in the oven for about 20-25 minutes. In about 20 minutes, take a toothpick and insert it in the middle, if it comes out clean, they are done.
Make sure you didn't over fill the liners so when they rise they are perfectly even with the top of the cupcake liner.
Remember these are cupcakes, not muffins.
Let's put these in the oven!
Now my cupcakes came out of the oven ater 20 minutes exactly, and I let them cool for 45 minutes because I don't want the frosting to melt.
OK, for the frosting we will need one stick of un-salted butter at room temperature - put it in the mixing bowl.
We're going to use one pound box of confectioners sugar.
OK.
Everything will get mixed together so it doesn't matter what order you put these in.
I love buttercream frosting on my cupcakes, but I wanted to do something a little bit different, and this is soooo good.
Wait until you see how beautiful they will look when they're done. I'm putting in about a half of a teaspoon of vanilla extract.
And, let me get a spoon, a pinch of salt - remember, always put a little salt. Add about a half a cup of raspberry preserves.
I like to use the one with the seeds in it because it looks very beautiful.
All of the ingredients are in the mixer, now on low start the mixer.
Start on low until everything starts to get mixed, then switch the speed up to medium.
This is a disposable piping bag
I love these because regular piping bags smell bad after the first few times you use them if they are not cleaned properly.
Disposable piping bags are cheap and Iove them. I'm using a star tip.
I'm going to pipe the frosting on the top just to make it look beautiful, and I have some fresh raspberry to doll it up.
You see how beautiful these cupcakes came out, look at that, they're perfect.
Can you tell that my favorite color is pink?
Let's put these on here.
Frosting is done. Wow, look at that consistency, it's heavenly.
I can't wait to eat one of these, they're going to be so good!
Give it a quick stir. Look at the color!
Put some frosting in the piping bag.
Mmmm. That tastes soo good!
You can do this however you want, I just like to go around
And just build it.
We will continue this and top them with fresh raspberries.
Look how beautiful.. Now I'm going to add the raspberries.
People will think you got these at a fancy bakery. Only if they knew..
So easy to make. And they look beautiful.
Here you go! Now, you saw how easy this was, and you have to promise me that you will go into your kitchen and make them.
Why wouldn't you want to!? Look how beautiful they are, and they're so good. And you know I can't resist.
Look how moist!
If I get it on my face, please don't laugh!
The buttercream is the best buttercream you'll ever have. The cake is moist!
I'm Laura Vitale, go to my website at www.LauraintheKitchen.com to get this recipe with measurements.
See you next time! Bye!
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