The Best Vanilla Cupcakes

Vanilla cupcakes – the classic that every person loves! So incredibly easy to bake and so incredibly easy to eat. These vanilla cupcakes are truly the best vanilla cupcakes you will ever taste and it all comes down to one secret ingredient which you probably wouldn’t expect to find in your cupcakes…

There’s been a big change behind the scenes here at Baking with Granny recently. I’ve given up work in favour of putting my time and energy into creating recipes and content for this little blog. Working full time and being a Mum was meaning my priorities had to focus on work and kids, leaving very little of me for my passions in baking and blogging. So I took the leap!

To start off this new chapter it seemed appropriate to celebrate with the classic cupcakes and set to asking Granny for her best vanilla cupcakes recipe. As always, she didn’t disappoint! And I mentioned a secret ingredient…well, don’t knock it until you’ve tried it but these cupcakes are made unbeatable in terms of taste thanks to the addition of some sour cream. Yep, sour cream! Granny tells me it’s as simple as upping the fat content in these little indulgent cupcakes that really makes the sour cream work.

Granny’s Top Tips

♥ The options for decorating these cupcakes is truly endless! I used a Wilton 1M Open Star Tip for the icing and topped them with some Dr. Oetker Bright and Bold Sprinkles.

The Best Vanilla Cupcakes

Print Rate

Prep Time: 15 minutes

Cook Time: 20 minutes

Total Time: 1 hour

Author: Baking with Granny

Ingredients 

For the Cupcakes

• 240 g Plain Flour
• 270 g Caster Sugar
• 3 tsp Baking Powder
• Large Pinch of Salt
• 80 g Butter softened
• 200 ml Milk whole or gold top
• 2 Eggs
• 1 tsp Vanilla Paste/Extract
• 40 ml Sour Cream

For the Icing

• 500 g Icing Sugar
• 160 g Unsalted Butter
• 50 ml Milk whole or gold top
• 1 tsp Vanilla Paste/Extract

Instructions

For the Cupcakes

• Preheat your oven to 180°c (160°c for fan-assisted oven or Gas Mark 4) and line a muffin tray(s) with 18 cupcake cases.
• In a large bowl, mix the butter, sugar, flour and baking powder together until it resembles bread crumbs.
• In a separate bowl, beat the eggs, milk and vanilla. Add half the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and mix until combined. Continue to gradually add the rest of the wet ingredients to create a batter.
• Add the sour cream right at the end, mixing to combine, before spooning the batter into your prepared cupcake cases, filling to 3/4 full.
• Bake for around 20 minutes until a skewer inserted comes out clean.
• Once cool enough to touch, transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.

For the Icing

• Mix the butter and icing sugar together, gradually adding the milk and vanilla until light and fluffy.
• Spread or pipe the icing on top of the cupcakes.
• Top with sprinkles of your choice to finish.

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