Moist Vanilla Cupcakes with Buttercream Frosting

Moist Vanilla Cupcakes with Buttercream Frosting – Moist soft delicious vanilla cupcakes with ultra-creamy buttercream frosting and they are utterly buttery delicious.

Cupcakes are addictive. I have never ever stopped with one. These days, I am very cautious about my calorie intake and have been controlling myself from munching on these cute little beauties. It was one of those gloomy days during last week, I badly craved for cupcakes and wanted to bake one for mine. In this way, at least I can satisfy my guilt of munching on homemade cakes rather store bought ones. After googling so much, I settled on the recipe for moist vanilla cupcakes in the blog – Life Love and Sugar. By the time, I am done with these little ones, it was almost dark and I managed to click few. These photos nowhere do justice to these moist tasty vanilla flavored cupcakes.

I couldn’t convince myself to blog about these cupcakes as I was doubtful about the pictures. But, today I was able to pull myself together and decided to blog. Yes, “Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.”

I call it as sinful delicious mistakes with its charming beauty and divine taste. On this day, I wanted to treat myself with these yummilicious cupcakes.

Ingredients: (adapted from Life Love and Sugar)

For Cupcake:

• 2 ½ cups All-Purpose Flour
• 2 cups Sugar
• 3 teaspoon Baking Powder
• 1 teaspoon Salt
• 1 cup Milk
• ½ cup Vegetable Oil
• 1 tablespoon Vanilla Extract
• 2 large Eggs
• 1 cup Hot Water

Vanilla Buttercream Frosting

• 1 cup Unsalted Butter, softened
• 3 cups Powdered Sugar
• 1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract
• Salt, a pinch
• Gel Food Color, if needed

Method:

Cupcakes:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F and line the muffin pan with cupcake liners
• In a large bowl, add flour, baking powder, sugar, and salt. Combine them together.
• In another bowl, add milk, oil, vanilla extract, and eggs. Whisk together until the eggs become pale and fluffy.
• Now, stir in the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and blend them well
• Slowly add hot water to the batter and mix well until combined together.
• Fill ¾ of the cupcake liners with the batter.
• Bake them in the preheated oven for about 20 minutes until a toothpick inserted in the center of the cake comes out clean and the top layer turns light brownish.
• Remove the pan from the oven and let it rest in the pan for about 5 minutes.
• Transfer the cupcake to the cooling rack and allow them to cool down completely.

Frosting:

• You can use either electric mixer with the paddle for preparing to frost or either use a hand mixer.
• In a small bowl, add butter, powdered sugar, and salt. Beat them with a hand mixer until it becomes fluffy.
• Now add vanilla extract and beat them once.
• If you are planning to add food color, add color at this point and combine them together.
• Place the frosting cream inside the piping bag and use your preferred tip to decorate the cooled cupcakes.
• If you feel the frosting is too thick, lighten it using milk. If it is too thin, thicken it using powdered sugar.
• Pipe the frosting on top of the cupcake as per your desire and enjoy yummilicious cupcakes.​

If you are looking for other delicious cake to prepare, then do check out my all-time favorite – Blueberry Peach Greek Yogurt Cake 

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Yours Truly,

Karthi