Simple fluffy vanilla cupcakes. Browse Our Official Site For Tasty Cup Cake Recipes, A Taste That Appeals To All My Best Classic Vanilla Cupcake Recipe. These homemade vanilla cupcakes are a certified mood-booster. They're moist, fluffy and topped with a simple buttercream frosting that hits all the right notes.
Not only are these cupcakes absolutely gorgeous to look at, but they taste amazing!
This recipe was modified from my go-to chocolate cupcake recipe.
This is my go to vanilla cupcake!
You can have Simple fluffy vanilla cupcakes using 6 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of Simple fluffy vanilla cupcakes
- You need 300 g of self rising flour.
- It's 80 g of butter.
- It's 90 g of castor sugar.
- Prepare 2 ml of vanilla essence.
- Prepare 3 of eggs.
- You need 5 ml of oil.
It is so light and fluffy, very easy to make, and repeatable. I love topping it with vanilla Italian meringue buttercream, and it just melts in your mouth! I did want to clarify the temperature of the butter (versus the video) for everyone. I have been making these cupcakes with room temperature butter.
Simple fluffy vanilla cupcakes step by step
- Beat butter, castor sugar and eggs until pale yellow.
- Add vanilla essence, and oil and beat for 1 minute.
- Add flour and mix well.
- Use cup cake holders and put about a tablespoon in each cup, leaving some space for it to rise.
- Bake at 180'c for 18 minutes.
- Use butter cream or cream cheese to ice, garnish with a strawberry or heart buscuit.
The buttermilk in this vanilla cupcake recipe also makes the cupcakes very moist. Buttermilk is acidic and actually breaks down the gluten in the flour, for a more tender cupcake. Protip - A little bit of oil in this recipe helps keep the cupcakes moist but too much oil in a recipe will cause the wrappers to peel away from the cupcake. The Most Amazing Vanilla Cupcake Recipe. The Most Amazing Vanilla Cupcake Recipe is an easy to make one-bowl recipe.