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Vanilla cupcakes with cream cheese frosting

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It’s a mom-and-daughter baking project. I baked the cupcakes and mixed the frosting. Sam tinted the frosting and piped them on the cupcakes. She’s not a pastry chef. She’s turning 16 tomorrow and she’s never taken baking classes. If you want the full story on how we did the cupcakes, see “Once upon a time, she wanted to be a chef.”

These vanilla cupcakes were made from a recipe adapted from Chockylit’s 3 Vanilla Cupcakes with Vanilla Sea Salt. Easy enough for amateurs like Sam and me.

Vanilla cupcakes with cream cheese frosting
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Vanilla cupcakes with cream cheese frosting

Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 35 minutes
Total Time 45 minutes
Servings 14
Author Connie Veneracion

Ingredients

  • 3/4 cup butter softened
  • 1 and 2/3 cups white sugar
  • 2 large eggs
  • 2 and 2/3 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 and 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 3/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons skim milk
  • 2 teaspoons of vanilla extract

Instructions

  1. Preheat the oven to 350F.
  2. In a bowl whisk together the flour, salt and baking powder.
  3. In another bowl, stir together the milk and vanilla extract.
  4. In a large bowl, beat the butter (with a wire whisk or a hand mixer) until light and fluffy. Add the sugar and continue beating until well combined. Add the eggs, one at a time, until well incorporated.
  5. Add the flour and milk in batches to the butter mixture, starting and ending with the flour.
  6. Spoon into paper-lined cupcake pans to about 3/4 full.
  7. Bake in a preheated 350F oven for 35 to 40 minutes.
  8. Cool the cupcakes before frosting.

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Vanilla cupcakes with cream cheese frosting
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Cream cheese frosting

Servings 2 cups
Author Connie Veneracion

Ingredients

  • 225 grams butter at room temperature
  • 255 grams cream cheese at room temperature
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
  • 4 cups confectioner’s (powdered) sugar

Instructions

  1. In a bowl, beat the butter until light.
  2. Add the cream cheese and beat until smooth.
  3. Stir in the vanilla extract.
  4. Add the confectioner’s sugar, a cup at a time, until a smooth paste is formed.
  5. Add a few drops of food color if you like.
  6. Pipe on cooled cupcakes.

Vanilla cupcakes with cream cheese frosting

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  1. wow, ang cute! galing galing naman ng mother and daughter tandem nyo. by just looking at it i can tell it’s delicious. nyway ms. connie how do u make the sugar light? isn’t it suppose to be the butter? nawala n kc sa procedure mo yung butter.