As a nation we just love all things vanilla and these cupcakes are no exception.
Light and moreish, this is just what you are looking for in a fluffy vanilla cupcake recipe. Even better this cupcake recipe has the very best vanilla flavour and that is because we have used Nielsen-Massey Vanilla Extract and Vanilla Bean Paste. That’s right a double whammy of yummy Vanilla. You are definitely going to want to snuffle more than one of these vanilla cupcakes, for research purposes obviously…
Preheat the oven to 180°C (gas mark 4), and line a tin with 12 cupcake cases.
Step 2:
In a large bowl cream together the butter and sugar until pale and fluffy.
Step 3:
Add the eggs, one at a time mixing well between each addition, then add the vanilla extract.
Step 4:
Carefully fold in the flour then spoon into the cupcakes cases, until they are about 2/3 full.
Step 5:
Bake in the oven for 25 minutes or until a skewer comes out clean.
Step 6:
Leave to cool completely on a cooling wire.
Step 7:
To make the buttercream beat together the butter and icing sugar until light and fluffy then add the vanilla bean paste and mix until well distributed.
Step 8:
Fill a piping bag with the buttercream and pipe onto the cakes.
Ingredients
MetricImperial
For the Cupcakes
250gUnsalted butter (softened)
250gSilver spoon caster sugar
4Free range medium eggs
250gAllinson's Self Raising White Flour
2 tspNielsen-Massey Vanilla Extract
For the Buttercream
150gUnsalted butter
300gSilver Spoon Icing Sugar
1 tbspNielsen-Massey Vanilla Bean Paste
Utensils
Cupcake case
Mixing bowl
Wooden spoon
Recipe Reviews
Delicious but my cake mix made loads more and the cakes were still huge, I also had lots of buttercream left but that wasn’t a problem as I halved it and froze the rest for the next batch another day. Easy to make and tasty 😋
Delicious! The recipe made 12 large muffins, although the buttercream ingredient quantities are too large, I used 200g butter and 400g icing sugar and still had icing left over.
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Thank you for your review Fiona. We've revisited the recipe and revised the quantities for the buttercream to reduce the volume it produces as you're right- there's a bit more than a spoon lick's worth at the end! Thank you for bringing this to our attention.
