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Golden Vanilla Dream Cupcake Recipe

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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

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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

Yield: Makes approximately 24 cupcakes.

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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:

  1. Entry 824 – Tiarna Coops
  2. Entry 1348 – Jane Nguyen
  3. Entry 595 – Lynda Wilson
(Winners have been contacted and sent their printables from Claudine).
Wishing you a lovely day and thanks again for entering!

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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.
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Good luck!

xo,

Marian

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Comments

  2. How does this recipe work as a cake rather than cupcakes? I’d assume it would be fine, but just asking in case someone has done it.

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  3. Amei o seu blog. Que ideia incrivél a do fogão retro. também gostaria muito de ganhar uma copia…plis, plis meus alunos iriam amar.

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  4. Hello Marian,
    If I don’t have unsalted butter, could I use regular (salted) butter, and omit the 1/4 tsp salt?

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    • Hi Lourdes,
      Yes, you can. You still might get a bit saltier of a taste, but the sweetness should cut it well.

  7. Hey Marian, i just made the cupcakes vanilla & chocolate omg they are so delicious it reminded me of my childhood how my mum use to make those cupcakes they smell so superlicious. Thank you so much for the recipes

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  11. Hey I love love love the cupcakes but I can’t get white margarine anywhere in Australia!!
    What can I use instead??
    I’m desprit as my daughters birthday is next weekend and I don’t have a icing

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  12. FINALLY!!!!!! After what feels like a gazillion fails, I’ve finally found the perfect vanilla cupcake recipe…Thank you, thank you, thank you.

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  13. I made these yesterday and they were so good! I have the Hummingbird Bakery cookbook but I their muffins to be too dense. But these vanilla muffins were exactly what I’ve been looking for! I even managed to get muffintops 🙂 thank you for the recipe, it’s a keeper!

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  14. I am so eager to make these. How long will the cake (not the icing) last for in an air safe container?

    thanks

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  15. Hey me again just wondering if this would work well for a cake (bread loaf tin size making a bubble bath cake for sister in laws birthday)if how much do you think I would need f the mixture and how long to bake it?

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  16. Hi Marion, could you convert the butter measurement into grammes please as I am in the Uk? I would love to try this recipe! Many thanks, Moo Cake

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  18. Hi Marion, I baked the vanilla cupcakes today and they taste absolutely delicious! Your frosting recipe is just perfect, although I had to make it with unsalted butter as I didn’t have white margarine. I usually find buttercream sickly and too sweet but your recipe is just right on the sweetness scales. Thank you so much for a fantastic recipe which I shall use from hereon! Moo Cake x

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  20. Omg, thank you thank you thank you! After many failed, dense, podgy, dry (you name it) I find a scrum- dildly-umcious recipe! Baked them with buttercream and mmmmhmmmm that’s what I’m talking about, thanks hun! :o)

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  21. Hi Marian,

    I love your blog so much.. all cookies and cakes are so nice looking.. cant bear to eat it.
    I’m planning to make the vanilla cupcakes for my boy’s birthday this coming weekend. But I only have 12 cupcake pans.. Can I leave the other half of the batter on the shelf while waiting for the first 12 cupcakes baking in the oven?

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    • Hi Diana,
      I did get mine at Bulk Barn, and took the time to take out the purple ones with tweezers. Lol.

    • Hi Dhanashree,
      I have heard from readers who say it works well as a cake, yes, but I’m not sure about a bundt pan. I should thinks so though. Please let me know how it goes if you try. xo

  26. Hi Marian. I made these tonight and they were delicious. Just one small problem… The top developed a bit of a hard crust. How can this be prevented? Thanks

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  27. Hi, I tried these cupcakes tonight and they tasted fab 🙂 the only question I have though, is that they didn’t have a nice dome, they were flat and some sank in the middle. Any ideas on why? Thanks 🙂

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  31. Thanks so much for sharing your recipe!

    Flo Braker in THe Baker’s Dozen Cookbook (one of my favorite bakers) says, “We tested more than 20 cakes before choosing this one…”
    She’s speaking of the classic 1-2-3-4 Cake.

    Through your experiments you’ve made it even better by reducing the sugar by 1/3 cup (which I always thought that cake to be too high in sugar) and increased buttermilk to make up the difference.

    Your recipe will be my go to yellow cake from now on!

    Dolores

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  32. Hi Marian

    Love love love your stuff.
    I realized some cupcake pictures have double liners. Do you bake them with 2 liners or add the second after?
    Thanks

    Reply

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  7. […] by admin With so many different potential cupcake flavor combinations, sometimes the simple ones get overlooked and taken for granted. For example, look at these golden vanilla dream cupcakes. They don’t have any unusual ingredients (no fruit, no tea powder, no herb infused butters). Just simple flour, buttermilk, vanilla extract and the like. They are topped with vanilla buttercream frosting and a few round sprinkles. Place them (liner and all) in an outer paper cupcake holder and serve. They’ll look just like presents! Source sweetopia […]

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  8. […] With so many different potential cupcake flavor combinations, sometimes the simple ones get overlooked and taken for granted. For example, look at these golden vanilla dream cupcakes. They don’t have any unusual ingredients (no fruit, no tea powder, no herb infused butters). Just simple flour, buttermilk, vanilla extract and the like. They are topped with vanilla buttercream frosting and a few round sprinkles. Place them (liner and all) in an outer paper cupcake holder and serve. They’ll look just like presents! Source sweetopia […]

    Reply

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