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
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
I like the cupcake favor box kit!
Very cute. I really like the cupcake favor box kit. So adorable.
Her shop is adorable and the items are so unique! I am in love with the ovens and the cassette tapes. Amazing!
I LOVE EVERYTHING, but if I could win something, it would probably be the ice-cream truck gift box!
I would love the retro oven!
Definitely, I’d love the retro oven cupcakes boxes. They are the cutest!! Thanks for this giveaway!!
Made a mistake with my email 🙁
Here I go again. I would love the retro oven 🙂
I LOVE the retro OVEN!!! SOOOO cute!!
Oh how cute is that oven! Love!!!
I love the retro oven cupcakes boxes, so cute!
Love the ice cream truck cupcake boxes!
The bun in the oven cupcake favor boxes are absolutely adorable!
Wow, they are so cute! 🙂
The “retro kitchen boxes”,I just love these. They so so darn cute.
I saw the ovens the other day on Pinterest! I’d love to get those for cupcakes :]
I would love to win retro oven boxes!
Very cute products! The cupcake favor box is my favorite, but the popsicles and ovens are close behind.
So freaking cute. That little oven is awesome!
Love them ALL! But if I have to choose one of the Christmas village or the retro oven, or the church for a first comunion gift!!!!!!!!!
Hope to get a chance, thanx!
I need the ovens! Adorable.
Has anyone baked the Golden Vanilla Dream cupcakes? I need a moist fluffy recipe.
Seriously the cutest things ever 🙂
hello, I love your blog,,
and I want to enter to the giveaway
I like the retro oven cupcake box XD
So many cute printouts. Thanks for introducing me to the site! I love the oven and the ice cream truck, and …
The retro oven cupcake boxes! How adorable! Would love to win these!
How do I choose? They are all so stinkin’ cute!! The retro oven is perfect for all of us bakers a like… I do love it, I also love the ice cream truck and the cupcake favor box kit. Decisions, decisions. Do I have to choose just one? I’d like any one of these but my favorite might be the oven.. wait no, the ice cream truck, no, no the favor box… ahh!! I love them all!!!
I love the little ovens the most!
Oh my gosh! The ovens!! Love the pink one 🙂
Cutest little cupcakes and boxes ever!!!
They are all so awesome, but I really love the retro ovens! Those are what I would pick.
Soooo cute!!! Definitely the retro oven cupcake box…
I agree with most that the ovens are the ones I desire!
I think I need to have the ovens. Oh my!!
The cupcake favor boxes are adorable 🙂
I would love ANY of these printables! The cupcake favor box one is the best though!
I would love to win the Retro oven – cupcake box because I love baking cupcakes, my bday is on may 19 and I’m going to bake some for that day, hope I win (:
It is so hard to choose as they are all so cute! But if I have to choose then I really like the retro ovens the best.
Of course I love the retro ovens, and I also love the sweet train set.
The oven boxes are superb
So torn between the ice cream truck and the retro oven cupcake boxes. They are both absolutely ADORABLE!!
Love everything about these ADORABLE cupcakes 🙂
so cute I love these! 🙂
Wow…all her creations are just fabulous…yes i love the oven for sure and that would be my favourite but really i love the ice cream truck as well as the birds..so so sweet..thanks for the chance to win
I love them all but the pink retro oven is my fav!
The Ovens are just too cute!
Oooooh has to be the christmas village……..soooo cute. Thank u for the awesome giveaway
Would love the retro oven!! Too cute!
Happy Houses or Christmas train set favor would be amazing but everything is so pretty! #spoiltforchoice
Definitely the retro ovens. They’re in my Etsy favorites.
I love the cupcake and the ice pop favor boxes… and of course the Retro oven favor box!