The Best Vanilla Cupcakes Alongside Vanilla Buttercream

I catch myself somewhat of a cupcake aficionado. I've been on the cupcake motorbus since... well, every bit long every bit I tin remember. In my catering too marriage ceremony planning days, I made (I'm guessing...) thousands of cupcakes for my clients. I 1 time did a Bridal Fair too was told to hold out prepared for 3,000 brides to catch my booth... So, I made 3,000 mini cupcakes topped alongside a pale bluish buttercream that I dubbed "Bliss Blue." Obviously the booth was a large hit.

My commencement 'gourmet' cupcake was at Sprinkles inwards Beverly Hills 10-12 years ago(?). Since thence I brand a signal gustation cupcakes from whatever cupcakerie that I pass. An occupational obligation. Some of my favorites include Georgetown Cupcakes (tv show, DC Cupcake), Sweet (Back Bay, Boston), Sprinkles (DC - remember the cherry flower cupcakes I made?!), Cupcake Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 La Mode (Kansas City), Dolce (Kansas City), too most of late Magnolia Bakery.

When nosotros were inwards New York for a marriage ceremony this Spring, I had my commencement sense at Magnolia Bakery. I'm a tough critic- but I idea these were some of the best cupcakes I've ever tasted. Mostly, I loved the really vanilla-y, soft too creamy buttercream.

Emma's seventh calendar month birthday was on the 15th, thence yesterday I made a batch of Magnolia Bakery Vanilla Cupakes topped alongside Bliss Blue Vanilla Buttercream. Basically, I simply needed an excuse.

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Magnolia Bakery's
Vanilla Cupcakes

1 1/2 cups self-rising flour
1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
1 loving cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, softened
two cups sugar
iv large eggs, at room temperature
1 loving cup milk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.

Line two (1/2 cup-12 capacity) muffin tins alongside cupcake papers.

In a minor bowl, combine the flours. Set aside.

In a large bowl, on the medium speed of an electrical mixer, cream the butter until smooth. Add the carbohydrate gradually too rhythm out until fluffy, nearly three minutes. Add the eggs, 1 at a time, beating good later each addition. Add the dry out ingredients inwards three parts, alternating alongside the milk too vanilla. With each addition, rhythm out until the ingredients are incorporated but create non over beat. Using a security spatula, scrape downward the batter inwards the bowl to brand certain the ingredients are good blended. Carefully spoon the batter into the cupcake liners, filling them nearly 3/4 full. Bake for xx to 25 minutes, or until a cake tester inserted into the pump of the cupcake comes out clean.

Cool the cupcakes inwards tins for fifteen minutes. Remove from the tins too cool completely on a wire rack earlier icing.

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Vanilla Buttercream:

1 loving cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, softened
vi to 8 cups confectioners' sugar
1/2 loving cup milk
two teaspoons vanilla extract

Place the butter inwards a large mixing bowl. Add iv cups of the carbohydrate too thence the milk too vanilla. On the medium speed of an electrical mixer, rhythm out until smoothen too creamy, nearly three to v minutes. Gradually add together the remaining sugar, 1 loving cup at a time, beating good later each add-on (about two minutes), until the icing is thick plenty to hold out of skillful spreading consistency. You may non require to add together all of the sugar. If desired, add together a few drops of nutrient coloring too mix thoroughly. (Use too store the icing at room temperature because icing volition laid if chilled.) Icing tin hold out stored inwards an airtight container for upward to three days.
Yield: plenty for two dozen cupcakes or 1 (9-inch) layer cake

Make certain you lot rhythm out the icing for 3-5 minutes to larn the super creamy consistency.

As I talked nearly at length inwards my Heirloom Pumpkin Sugar Cookies post, when I'm mixing icing colors I ever add together a piffling impact of the reverse of the color I'm mixing to arrive at a muted color that looks to a greater extent than sophisticated. In this event since I was making blue, I added simply a impact of blood-red (far left) too yellowish (middle) to the bluish (right). By adding the blood-red too yellowish (or orange... I didn't convey any) the color volition appear to a greater extent than muted too non thence bright. It sounds strange, but it actually works.