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Ingredients of Vanilla Cupcake Recipe

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

An easy recipe for vanilla cupcakes topped with a simple vanilla buttercream frosting. I know there are a million vanilla cupcake recipes out there, but I was on a mission to create a recipe that was. This recipe was very easy to make but the 'cupcakes' tasted much more like muffins. The Most Amazing Vanilla Cupcake Recipe is an easy to make one-bowl recipe.

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..

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