Pretty much the best cupcake recipe! Only a couple steps and you have tasty desert :)
Here's what you need:For the cupcakes:
1/2 cup room temperature butter
3/4 cups granulated sugar
2 eggs
2 tsp vanilla extract (highly recommend this be bought from Costco.. Most bang for your buck)
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
2/3 cup cold milk
1 1/4 cup fresh fruit (optional)
For the frosting
1 cup room temp butter or 2 sticks
4 cups sifted powdered sugar
1 tsp Vanilla extract
Color dye of your choice
Preheat the oven to 350
Steps:
1. Cream butter and sugar mix together until creamy. Then beat in eggs on by one. Add in vanilla.2. In a separate bowl mix together the dry ingredients; flour, baking powder and salt.
3. Add dry mixture to the butter mixture and then add the milk.
4. The optional step adding in fruit.. This time I made strawberry vanilla cupcakes, which were amazing but I was also thinking peaches or blue berries would be pretty amazing as well :)
5. Fill your cupcake tins and bake for 18-26 minutes. For cooking rookies you'll know they are done when you stick a knife in and pull no batter out.
6. Mix the vanilla and the butter and gradually add in powdered sugar until cream (and delicious!). Add your choice of dye (optional) and frost away... once those cupcakes cool of course!
And Enjoy!
