Vanilla Cupcake Recipe

Cupcakes are one of my favourite things to bake and over the last few years I have made some YouTube videos which feature cupcakes with different decorating techniques. A few of you have been asking for the recipe that I use to create my vanilla cupcakes, so I thought I would put a video together and share with you with the recipe and how I make them. These cupcakes are so easy to make with just 6 ingredients and I just love their light and fluffy texture.

Watch how I make my vanilla cupcakes below or scroll down for the full recipe

As you can see from the photo below when you break into one of the cupcakes they have this light yellow, golden colour with a really light and fluffy texture. In this video I use vanilla essence to flavour the cupcakes, but you can substitute this for any flavouring and the recipe will still work perfectly.

Vanilla Cupcake Recipe

Author: Cakes by Lynz

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Prep Time 10 minutes mins

Cook Time 23 minutes mins

Total Time 33 minutes mins

Servings 12 Cupcakes

Recipe Type Cupcakes

Keyword Buttercream, Cupcakes

Ingredients

  

Cupcakes

• 200 g Self Raising Flour (7oz)
• 200 g Room Temperature Butter or baking spread (7oz)
• 200 g Caster Sugar 7oz
• 2 Eggs (medium)
• 1 tbsp Vanilla Essence / Flavouring
• 2 tbsp Milk

Vanilla Buttercream

• 340 g Icing Sugar (12oz)
• 170 g Room Temperature Salted Butter (6oz)
• 1.5 tbsp Milk
• 1 tbsp Vanilla Favouring (or favouring of your choice)

Instructions

• Into a mixing bowl sift in the plain flour. Add the bicarbonate of soda, the ground cinnamon and the ground ginger and pop to one side.
• Into a saucepan add the butter, caster sugar, the brown sugar and the golden syrup and place this onto your hob until all the ingredients have melted together.
• You then want to add your melted ingredients to your dry ingredients in your mixing bowl. Using a wooden spoon or spatula mix this all together until it forms a dough. You can finish this off mixing it with your hands to make sure the ingredients are all combined.
• Take a piece of cling film / plastic wrap and push down your dough, coving it over. Place this into the fridge for 30 minutes.
• Whilst your dough is in the fridge you will need to print off and cut out your template pieces. You can find my template here.
• After 30 minutes take your dough out of the fridge. You can then dust your surface with a little flour and roll out your dough until its around 5mm in thickness. Then use a knife to cut out all of your shapes and place on a baking tray.
• Place your cut out shapes into a preheated oven set to 180 degrees Celsius for 10 minutes. You want the edges just to start changing colour.
• After 10 minutes you can take your shapes out of the oven to let them cool. I like to use my templates and carefully (they will be hot) cut around the template a second time, to cut off any areas that have spread in size. This will help your house fit together a little easier.
• You then have all the pieces for your gingerbread house. I like to use royal icing to stick my pieces together. Watch how to decorate your Gingerbread house in my tutorial above.

Notes

Creating Chocolate Cupcakes

You can also use this recipe to make chocolate cakes too. If you substitute 20g of the self raising flour for 20g of cocoa powder and take out the vanilla flavouring you have a deliciously moreish chocolate sponge cupcake.

I really hope you enjoy this video and find it helpful in your own baking.
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