Recipe: Vanilla Birthday Cupcakes

Vanilla Birthday Cupcakes

Ingredients:

  • 3/4 cup sugar
  • 1/2 cup (1 stick) softened butter
  • 2 eggs
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
  • 1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 2/3 cup cold milk

Directions:

  1. Preheat oven to 350°.
  2. Cream sugar and butter.
  3. Add eggs one at a time, beating after each addition.
  4. Stir in vanilla.
  5. In a separate bowl, stir together dry ingredients (flour, baking powder, salt). Add to butter mixture.
  6. Stir in milk.
  7. Spoon into lined cupcake/muffin tins.
  8. Bake 18-25 minutes, until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.

Makes 12 cupcakes. (For Lillian’s party of 9 children and 12 adults I doubled the recipe.)

For the frosting I used, go to my Birthday Cupcake Frosting recipe.

(This was adapted from a cooks.com recipe.)

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