If you're looking for a simple, yet delicious treat for the one you love, look no further than these tasty vanilla Valentine's Cupcakes topped with a delicate homemade vanilla buttercream frosting!
Kelly Reci
Prep Time 20 minutesminutes
Cook Time 50 minutesminutes
Total Time 1 hourhour
Ingredients
1⅔cupsall-purpose flour
1cupsugar
1½tspbaking powder
¼tspbaking soda
¼tspsalt
¾cupunsalted buttermelted
3egg whitesat room temperature
1tbspvanilla
½cupwhole milkwarm
½cupsour creamroom temperature
Frosting Ingredients
1cupunsalted butter room temperature
4½cupspowdered sugar
1tbspvanilla extract
4-5tbspheavy cream
sugar sprinklesred and pink
Instructions
Cupcake Instructions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Line a muffin pan with cupcake liners.
In a large mixing bowl, sift together the flour, sugar, salt, baking powder, and baking soda. Whisk to combine.
Separate the eggs. Save the yolks for another recipe.
In another large bowl, whisk together the wet ingredients until completely combined. The batter may be lumpy, but that's okay!
Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients. Mix until they are just combined.
Using a cookie scoop or spoon, fill cupcake wells about ⅔ full.
Bake for about 18 minutes or until centers spring back from the touch.
Allow cupcakes to cool in the pan for about 10 minutes, then remove to a cooling rack. Let cool completely before frosting and decorating.
Frosting Instructions
Beat the softened butter over medium speed with an electric mixer until creamy and soft.
Continue to beat over medium speed as you slowly mix in the powdered sugar. Be sure to stop the mixer and scrape down the sides of the bowl with a spatula as needed to make sure the sugar becomes fully incorporated.
Once the butter and sugar are completely combined, add in the vanilla extract.
Add in the heavy cream 1 Tablespoon at a time until the frosting reaches the desired consistency.
Scoop frosting into an icing bag fitted with your desired piping tip. I used a Russian Ball Tip to decorate mine.
Decorating the Cupcakes
Once cupcakes have cooled, frost liberally.
Decorate by dusting with colored sugar sprinkles in desired patterns and designs.
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Notes
The frosting recipe will make enough vanilla buttercream frosting to frost 12 cupcakes or 1 two-layer 8-inch cake.