Well happy May!
It’s been a while since I’ve posted (thanks to my web designer, Arthur, for creating an adorable, illustrated liquid measure conversions, the other day), as making sweets and photographing them is a little challenging during our home renovation, but I managed to borrow my sweet friend Kim’s kitchen (Thank you Kim!), to do some recipe testing and make rainbow-happy cupcakes, inspired by this mail from The TomKat Studio.
These moist, fluffy, golden-delicious, vanilla cupcakes, a recipe I’ve been toying around with for a while, are finally ready to share, and I hope you like them too.
Besides the recipe below, I’ve got some more treats for you today, so scroll down for a little surprise!
Golden Vanilla Cupcakes Recipe
Golden Vanilla Dream Cupcake Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 cup unsalted butter, at room temperature
- 1 2/3 cups granulated sugar
- 4 large eggs
- 1 tbsp vanilla extract
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 tbsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1 1/4 cups buttermilk
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit (180 degrees Celsius).
- In a mixer bowl fitted with a paddle attachment, beat butter with sugar until light and fluffy (a few minutes).
- Beat in eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
- Beat in vanilla.
- Whisk together flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt.
- Stir dry mixture into wet (butter) mixture alternately with buttermilk, making 3 additions of dry ingredients and 3 of buttermilk.
- Using an ice cream scoop or 1/4 cup measurer, scoop batter into a muffin tin lined with cupcake liners.
- Bake for approximately 15-20 minutes, until cake tester (toothpicks or skewers work well too), inserted in centre comes out clean.
- Let cool in muffin tins for about 5 minutes, then remove and let cool completely before adding icing.
Notes
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Decorating the Cupcakes
The frosting recipe I used can be found here.
If you’d like a how-to on icing these cupcakes, here’s a video for you:
The confetti sprinkles I found at a local store, Bulk Barn, but I also found them online here. A little secret for you… I took the time to take out all the purple and orange sprinkles with my decorating tweezers. (Yes, I really did. I know). It actually only took me about 10 minutes for this many sprinkles:
And I didn’t end up needing that many for 24 cupcakes. Just really wanted to match the stripes on the cute carnival cupcake cups and favor boxes.
And now, a little giveaway fun to share with you…
Oven Printables by Claudine Hellmuth {Giveaway!} CLOSED!
A few days ago I came across these printables on Pinterest and was instantly smitten.
Little gift boxes in the shape of ovens – perfect for holding cupcakes, gift cards or anything you’d like to fit inside as a present!
If you follow me on Instagram, you may have seen these photos already. It’s an instant downloadable pdf created by the talented Claudine Hellmuth. You can find her here on Etsy and on her website here. I think you understand just how charmed I was by the printables by your response to the ovens on Facebook and Pinterest!
There are even little tags with sayings like, “Bun in the Oven”, “I love you” and “Hello neighbour”. Hello, cute housewarming gift!
And eep! Cute little oven mitt gift tags!
(Mom, I haven’t seen you since I’ve made these yet, but here’s the one you’ll be getting).
So as a little treat for you, to thank you for visiting me here, I’m so excited to be giving away three pdf copies of the Oven Printable or Printable of your choice from Ms. Hellmuth’s shop. (Thank you, Claudine!).
Claudine has also kindly extended a coupon code to you if you’d like to shop there from now until May 22nd, 10% off with Coupon Code SOSWEET
GIVEAWAY WINNERS!!!
Thank you so much for entering! Such a fun giveaway!
Congratulations to the following winners:
- Entry 824 – Tiarna Coops
- Entry 1348 – Jane Nguyen
- Entry 595 – Lynda Wilson
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How to Enter – CONTEST CLOSED!
Enter the giveaway in the Rafflecopter box below.
The only mandatory (required) item is the first one – leaving a comment on this blog post letting me know which Printable in Claudine’s shop you’d like to win. (Make sure you check that off in the Rafflecopter box). The other entries are just more opportunities to win. Chose the social media option(s) you like!
You do not need to use Facebook to use Rafflecopter, an email is fine. Your email will not be shared with anyone.
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Giveaway Details – CLOSED!
Details can be found in the Rafflecopter widget, but I thought I’d share them with you here as well:
No purchase necessary to win.This contest is International as the prize is a downloadable PDF file.The winners will be chosen randomly at www.random.org.Winners will be contacted on Saturday, May 18th, 2013, and announced in this blog post once contact has been made.Leave all your comment entries here, not on Facebook.Please read all contest entry details in the Rafflecopter widget below.You do not need to use Facebook to use Rafflecopter, an email is fine. Your email will not be shared with anyone.
Good luck!
xo,
Marian
Michelle says
The oven printables – they are adorable 🙂
Rhonda says
These oven printables are the cutest
Emily says
I would love the retro oven printables!!!!
Julie says
Everything is so incredibly cute! I think I love the oven the best though. Probably because I like to bake so much. 🙂
eve w says
the retro oven printables!
Melissa says
The retro oven or ice pops!
christina says
🙂
Rebecca Higginbotham says
Absolutely adorable, who would have ever thought of these cuties.
Pav says
What a fantastic idea. Would love to win these x
Maya says
Love the little boxes will be perfect for my sisters kitchen tea party.
Keren says
These are just FAB! Not seen anything like this before!
laura says
bellisimos!!!!
Erin says
The ovens! I love that they hold a cupcake!
Yee Lan says
I would love the retro oven printables, there fab x
David Holt says
Love the oven boxes! Yes please!
Karin says
I’d love to win th retro oven printables!
Florgertrude Torres says
i’d like the printable ovens. 🙂
Vanessa Hardman says
Oven boxes for me please! Too cute
Liz says
The oven ones!!!! So cute!!!!!
Karin says
I’d love to win the retro oven printables!
Erika Diego says
I would love the retro oven printables! Great gifting idea.
Sarah G says
The retro oven is definitely my favorite, but the ice pop and cupcake boxes are pretty adorable, too!
Amy C says
The retro oven printables are just too cute!
Ammor Weitling says
The oven printables, please… 🙂
Denise Pasko says
The retro ovens are too cute!!!
Stacey says
Cannot go past the adorable ovens!
Amy Royal says
The Oven printable is my top choice…. would be love to give these to my best friend who has her 3rd “bun in the oven!”
Carolina says
I love retro oven!!!!! Love from Argentina♥♥♥
Pamela says
I’m soooo in love with those retro oven cupcake boxes!!! How adorable can they be? And I bet they want to travel all the way to Portugal to my kitchen 😉
Sue says
Oven printables, love them!
Yliana Cadena says
Retro oven
Priscille says
I WOULD LOVE THE sweet treat train set.lOVE THE OVEN AS WELL BUT CHOOSE THE TRAIN SET.
Nour Hisham says
Love so much the retro ovens!!!!
Jennifer says
I love the retro oven printables too!
SilBsAs says
I’d like these retro ovens…they’re soooo cute!!
Kelly says
the oven cupcake boxes
Jessie says
I adore the oven printables. I think they are just too lovely!!!
Diana Munoz says
Hi!!! I love ALLLL the printables! So Adorable!!
Karen Oglesby says
I would love to win the retro oven printables!
Ami Beth says
I love all the printables, but the ice cream trucks would be great for summer treats.
Medium says
def the oven printable a!
Karen Oglesby says
I would love to win the oven printables!
Kathy Lynn Dieken says
I love cupcakes boxes! And these little ovens are just precious!
Christina says
Love love love the lil oven boxes – just adorable!
Anne from Pintesting says
I love the retro ovens – super cute!!!
Charul @ Tadka Masala says
Ice-cream truck!! 🙂
Jackie says
I love the oven printables!! SO cute!!
Jasmina says
This would be so adorable for a baby shower! 🙂
Jasmina says
The retro ovens look amazing! 🙂
Filya says
these oven printables are so cute and fun!
very creative… 🙂