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Vanilla Cupcakes with Chocolate Frosting!



I made these about a week ago and I forgot that I took pictures! This was my very first attempt at making homemade cupcakes without a cake mix from a box. And I am going to be honest.. they were pretty freaking amazing.

Now.. enough talk.. lets get to the sweet goodness!
I got the original recipe for the cupcakes here http://www.food.com/recipe/amy-sedariss-vanilla-cupcakes-181181?scaleto=24&mode=null&st=true . I added a little more vanilla extract and it turned out amazing.



Ingredients for cupcake:
• 1 ¾ cups granulated sugar
• ¾ cups softened butter
• 2 eggs
• 2 ½ tsp vanilla extract
• ½ tsp salt
• 2 ½ tsp baking powder
• 2 ½ cups all purpose flour
• 1 ¼ cups milk

Ingredients for icing:
• 2 ¾ cups powdered sugar
• 6 Tbsp cocoa powder
• 6 Tbsp unsalted room temperature butter
• 5 Tbsp whole milk
• 1 tsp vanilla extract



Instructions for Cake:

  1. In a mixing bowl cream together the sugar, butter, eggs, and vanilla extract. 
  2. In a large bowl mix together your salt, baking powder, and flour. 
  3. Once your butter sugar mixture is nice and creamy rotate between adding a little flour and a little milk. Do this until all your flour and milk have been added.
  4. I baked mine in a mini muffin tin at 375° for about 18 minutes or until the tops got golden.
  5. Allow to cool completely before putting frosting on top.
Instructions for icing:
  1. What I did was mix everything together in a bowl at once until it was nice and creamy!.. pretty straight forward.. I know I am so complicated... I am not the queen of sarcasm...
Once your cupcakes are cooled and your icing is made, just ice them.. and eat them!!! I put sprinkles on top because it made them look even awesomer. ☺
This was also a very easy recipe for my son to help with. He LOVED being able to help me dump all the ingredients in a bowl and what not. 

mmmmm so good!


ENJOY! Thanks for reading

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