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Recipe courtesy of Cheryl Day
Old-Fashioned Cupcakes
- Level: Easy
- Total: 35 min
- Prep: 15 min
- Cook: 20 min
- Yield: 24 cupcakes
Ingredients
1 3/4 cups cake flour (not self-rising)
1 1/4 cups unbleached all-purpose flour
2 cups sugar
1 tablespoon baking powder
3/4 teaspoon salt
2 sticks unsalted butter, cut into cubes
4 large eggs
1 cup whole milk
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
Old Fashioned Frosting, recipe follows
Old-Fashioned Frosting:
2 sticks butter, room temperature
8 cups confectioners' sugar
1/2 cup milk
2 teaspoons vanilla extract or other flavoring
Directions
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees F. Line cupcake pans with paper liners; set aside.
- Combine in a bowl both flours, sugar, baking powder and salt. Mix on low speed until combined for about 3 minutes. Add in cubed butter, mixing until just coated with flour.
- Add eggs 1 at a time until combined. Slowly add milk and vanilla to batter until completely mixed scraping down the bowl as you mix.
- Scoop batter into baking cups filling about 2/3 full. Bake until a cake tester inserted in the center comes out clean, 17 to 20 minutes.
- Cool and decorate with Old Fashioned Frosting.
Old-Fashioned Frosting:
- Cream softened butter and add 4 cups sugar, milk and vanilla. Beat with paddle attachment until smooth gradually add the rest of sugar to reach frosting consistency*. (See Cook's Note)
Cook’s Note
Add more sugar to get this consistency.
