Vanilla Cupcake Recipe

Vanilla cupcakes are like a  blank canvas.  There are so many options you can use to decorate them, let your imagination run wild. They make a great base recipe for many other types of cupcakes.

I will share with you my favourites throughout this blog and some of the ways I have decorated them .  You can decorate them as elaborately or as simple as you want depending on the occasion.  Sometimes, a dusting of icing sugar is all they need. In this recipe I will show you this vanilla cupcake recipe.

Vanilla cupcakes recipe

• 113 grams (1/2 cup) vegetable oil
• 133 grams (2/3 cup) white caster sugar
• 3 large eggs
• 2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
• 200 grams (1 1/2 cups) plain flour
• 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 60 ml sour cream or plain yoghurt

Method

• Preheat oven to 175°Celsius (350°Fahrenheit)
• Line your cupcake tray with paper cupcake liners
• Whisk all your wet ingredients, apart from sour cream, together in one bowl .
• Add all the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and whisk until smooth
• Finally stir in the yoghurt
• Divide the mixture as equally as you can between the 12 cupcake cases
• Bake in the oven for 20 minutes or until slightly golden brown on top (test with a cake tester and if it comes out clean they are ready)

There are so many way to decorate these little cakes so I will dedicate a few pages to the types of icing you can use and decorations you can make .

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Click here for tips on how to decorate with fondant icing

Click here for beautiful edible decorations you can make