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| Vanilla Cupcakes with frosting |
Yay! at last , the long awaited Vanilla cupcake recipe is here.
This recipe is simple, easy and of course delicious.
And to make it even better, the recipe is only for a small batch; just six cupcakes.
So if you have been reluctant to try out any cake recipe for fear of not getting it right and wasting ingredients, this vanilla cupcake recipe is just right for beginners. Nothing complicated and no fuss at all.
I also included a simple vanilla cream icing to top up the cakes. These beautiful cupcakes are already tasty, so feel free to leave out the icing if you want to.
Now here’s our simple 6 vanilla cupcake recipe with vanilla frosting.
Ingredients for 6 cupcakes
(double or triple recipe at your preference)
- 45 grams Butter(softened) or Vegetable oil
- 1 Large Egg
- 80 grams Sugar
- 90 grams Plain Flour
- 3/4 teaspoon(3.75 grams) Baking powder
- 40 ml Milk
- 1 teaspoon Vanilla extract/flavor
Preparation
–Before you start with the cupcakes, first grease the cupcake pans lightly with butter and dust with flour. But if using cupcake liners you can omit this step.
–The next thing to do is, preheat the oven at 180ºC for 10 minutes and while the oven is warming up, you can go ahead and prepare the cake batter.
1. In a deep bowl, mix the butter with the sugar and egg, until creamy.
2. Gradually, sift in the flour and baking powder and mix until well incorporated.
3. Also add the milk and vanilla extract and mix until combined.
4. Now fill in the cupcake pans up to 2/3 the capacity of the mold.
Tip: to make fill-up easier and neater, you can pour the cupcake batter into a plastic bag, cut a tip and pipe the batter into the cupcake pans.
5. Finally bake at 20-25 minutes or until the cakes passes the toothpick test. Then take out of the oven and leave to cool on a wire rack.
See how easy it was! Now you have your Delicious Vanilla cupcakes.
To make the Vanilla cream frosting/icing, simply follow this easy recipe we have HERE and use this measurements below to make enough for 6 cupcakes.
You’ll need
- 100 grams Butter (softened)
- 125 grams Icing sugar
- half teaspoon Vanilla extract
- 2 tablespoon Milk
- 2 to 3 drops red food coloring(to give it this light pink color)
When you have prepared the vanilla butter cream icing/frosting, pipe it on the cupcakes and enjoy!
I’ve been asking a friend for cup cake recipe and procedures because the one I know is quite expensive to make but I wanted something simple and he’s been giving me attitudes. Guess I’ll have to try this one out by tomorrow. I’ll be back with my feedback ✌🏽
Author
You’ll surely love this cupcake recipe
Will be expecting your feedback
looks simple , I can’t wait to try it out
I tried this recipe and it was superb! Thank you ma😊
Author
Wow Seun, I wasn’t expecting you to try it immediately
thank you for returning back with your feedback
I’m so glad you enjoyed it🧡
Did it really come out soft and fluffy?
Author
Oh Seun!
you need to try it out
you’ll come and thank me later😀
Definitely going to try this… someone once told me that the measurement of sugar and butter must be the same, how true is that?
Author
There are different types of cakes Seun.
just like this our Nigerian pound cake here
https://www.nigerianfoodtv.com/nigerian-cake-recipe-original-recipe/
Thanks you are doing a good work. Thumbs up
Author
Thanks Zingal 🙂
Am grateful for this genuine transfer of knowledge. Thank you so much.
Author
You are welcome Loveth ?
Hello, thanks so much for this recipe. Pls, I don’t have a scale. I would appreciate if you could help with measurements with measuring cups and spoons.
Author
Hi Fon, trust you can work with this:
The Peak milk tin (evaporated) is about 160 grams.
I have the baking powder in teaspoons already
and I bet you have a container at home with millilitres reading to measure the milk.
Hope this helps.
Thanks so much 4 d recipe. I intend baking commercial cupcakes 2day but my challenge is measurement. I have tomato paste tins weighing 210g, can I use 2¼ of it as 500g flour? N 1 cup for sugar with 250g of butter? I’m at a crossroad, Pls treat as urgent🙏
Author
Chidimma, it’s better to get a scale if you want to
be making cupcakes for commercial purpose so that your cakes always come out
perfect and accurate and avoid wastage.
As for your question yes you can use it like that, but like I said
a scale is your best friend for commercial baking.
thanks for all these recipes Niky, more wisdom
Author
You are so welcome sweet Wunmmy ?
Thanks alot but i have those questions i hope u can help me, i have this lady selling cup ckes around my office where i sell snacks and food her cakes are usually bigger than mine do u think there is any secret to rising the cakes
Author
Hi Peace, there are several reasons why her cupcakes come out bigger than yours. But I will just list the basic ones.
One of them is the size of the pan that she uses. Cupcake pans comes in different sizes and hers might be larger than yours.
Another reason is the amount of batter that she puts in each pan, Some people fill up two-third of the pan, while other prefer to fill up half of the pan,. This will yield two cipcakes of different sizes, even though the same pan was used.
Hope this helps and always make sure that you follow a cake recipe as it is written , so that you do not have any issues with the batter too.
Enter your comment…can you please send me a recipe for making cookies…
Author
Hi Ruth, see cookie recipe here https://www.nigerianfoodtv.com/nigerian-snacks-recipe/ ?
Thanks niki! Pls can you share sponge cake recipe
Author
Hi Benedicta, you can see the recipe on our cake recipes page here https://www.nigerianfoodtv.com/cake-recipes/
looks delicious…I can't wait to try it
Author
Please do ?
Pls quantity of preservative for cup cake
Author
Hi Angelic, pls check the company intructions on the preservative packet on how to use,
Pls quantity of preservative for cup cake
Author
Hi Angelic, pls check the company intructions on the preservative packet on how to use.
Thanks pls i bought this silcone cupcake pan do i need to line it or pour the batter directly on it and bake?
Author
Hi dear, as you can see in the pictures above, I also made use of individual silicone pans and also lined them. But lining them isn’t necessary, I just like the aesthetic look and it also makes cleanup easier for me?
Good day ma, please I want you to help me with the butter and egg measurement for size 12 cake.thank you
Author
Hi rejoice, you can triple the ingredients in this recipe to get enoigh batter for your 12 inch size cake
Pls wat if i dont have a cupcake mould? How do i go about it.
Author
If you want to get the shape of this cake, you will need a cupcake pan or mould, but notwitstanding you can make use of any cake pan that you have handy.
I hope you will get my message this time. I want to say thank you for the help you are rendering to life, God bless you. When I bake for another 20minutes after pre heating for 10minutes,my cupcakes almost got burnt and I already rub the pan with flour and butter. Do you think baking for another 10 minutes will be okay. Thanks
Author
Hi Omobolanle, so sorry for the very late response, I think you should reduce the temperature of your oven and still bake at 20 minutes. You oven is too hot that is why the cake gets burnt.
And since oven brands differs from place to place, make sure you check the cake from time to time , so that they don’t get burnt again .
I hope you will get my message this time. I want to say thank you for the help you are rendering to life, God bless you. When I bake for another 20minutes after pre heating for 10minutes,my cupcakes almost got burnt and I already rub the pan with flour and butter. Do you think baking for another 10 minutes will be okay. Thanks
Author
Hi Omobolanle, so sorry for the very late response, I think you should reduce the temperature of your oven and still bake at 20 minutes. You oven is too hot that is why the cake gets burnt.
thanks for this recipe. please what are the golden brown 'beads' on the frosting? thanks.
Author
They are edible cake decoration, which you can get at any cake store 🙂
Thanks I made the eforiro for the first time and it came out well thanks a lot God bless you for my family really enjoyed it
Author
I am so glad you enjoyed it. God bless you too hun 🙂
IS BUTTER NOT NEEDED IN FRIED RICE
Author
Hi Elo, I don’t add butter in my fried rice, see recipe here https://www.nigerianfoodtv.com/nigerian-rice-recipes/
Hello NKy, thank you so much for this recipe. Please what I is the measurement for the sugar for the cupcakes recipe? Thank you.
Oh dear, I can't believe I missed that, thanks for pointing it out.It's 80 grams hun.
Hi Nky. Thank you so much for this recipe. But there is no measurement for the sugar for baking the cake. What is the measurement? Thank you once again.
thank you so much for this recipe
You're welcome Fynest 🙂
Hi Nky,WELLDONE!!!This looks very easy to make and I'm sure it will turn out delicious,as usual!I want to use this opportunity to appreciate you for helping me.You have made cooking/baking easy and interesting for me.I've been using so many of your recipes(so sorry for not leaving comments) and they turn out nice…One that my Husband loved so much is the Adalu! Hmmn,He so praised me that day and kept asking for more!May God continue to increase you on all sides!!!
Hi Ann, I'm so glad you left a comment this time around. God bless you too hun, and thanks for your lovely comment, hope to hear from you more 🙂
So easy…… Thumb up!
Thanks Rex 🙂