Recipe: Delicious Vanilla Cupcake Recipe

Vanilla Cupcake Recipe.

You can cook Vanilla Cupcake Recipe using 11 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Vanilla Cupcake Recipe

1. It's 110 g of softened butter.
2. Prepare 110 g of brown sugar.
3. It's 2 of large eggs.
4. Prepare 1/2 tsp of vanilla extract.
5. Prepare 110 g of self raising flour.
6. It's of For the butter cream.
7. It's 150 g of softened butter.
8. It's 300 g of icing sugar.
9. You need 1 tbsp of vanilla extract.
10. You need 3 tbsp of milk.
11. It's of Food colouring paste of your choice (optional).

Vanilla Cupcake Recipe instructions

1. Heat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4 and fill a 12 cupcake tray with cases..
2. Using an electric whisk beat 110g softened butter and 110g brown sugar together until pale and fluffy then whisk in 2 large eggs, one at a time, scraping down the sides of the bowl after each addition..
3. Add ½ tsp vanilla extract, 110g self-raising flour and a pinch of salt, whisk until just combined then spoon the mixture into the cupcake cases..
4. Bake for 15 mins until golden brown and a skewer inserted into the middle of each cake comes out clean. Leave to cool completely on a wire rack..
5. To make the buttercream, whisk 150g softened butter until super soft then add 300g icing sugar, 1 tsp vanilla extract and a pinch of salt..
6. Whisk together until smooth (start off slowly to avoid an icing sugar cloud) then beat in 3 tbsp milk..
7. If wanting to colour, stir in the food colouring now. Spoon or pipe onto the cooled cupcakes..