Cupcake Princess Vanilla Cupcakes Food

CUPCAKE PRINCESS' VANILLA CUPCAKES

Steps:

• Preheat an oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Line a standard muffin tin with 12 paper cupcake liners. Combine flour, baking soda, and salt in a bowl; set aside.
• Heat the butter and milk in a small saucepan over low heat until the butter has melted. Beat the sugar, eggs, egg yolk, and vanilla with an electric mixer in a large bowl until it has thickened slightly and is lighter in color. Gradually beat in the flour mixture on low speed until just incorporated. Slowly pour in the hot milk, beating until just combined.
• Divide batter evenly between cupcake liners. Bake until toothpick inserted into center comes out clean, about 20 minutes. Cool cupcakes in pan for 10 minutes. Transfer cupcakes to a cooling rack to cool completely.

CUPCAKE PRINCESS' VANILLA CUPCAKES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line a cupcake pan with 12 paper baking cups. In a medium mixing bowl stir together flour, baking soda, and salt. Set aside.
• In a small saucepan heat butter and milk over low heat just until mixture is hot and butter is melted. Remove from heat.
• Meanwhile, In a large mixing bowl with an electric mixer on medium speed beat eggs, egg yolk, sugar, and vanilla until lightened in color and thickened. On low speed gradually add flour mixture and beat until blended. Slowley add hot milk mixture and beat until combined.
• Divide batter evenly between cupcake liners. Bake until toothpick inseted into center comes out clean, about 20 minutes. Cool cupcakes in pan for 10 minutes. Transfer cupcakes to a cooling rack to cool completley.

DISNEY PRINCESS-INSPIRED CUPCAKES

Steps:

• For the cupcakes and frosting: Add the butter to a stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment and beat on medium speed for 2 minutes. Add half of the confectioners' sugar and beat on low until incorporated. Beat in the remaining confectioners' sugar until incorporated. Increase the speed to medium high and add the milk, vanilla and salt; beat until light and fluffy, about 4 minutes.
• Transfer half of the frosting to a medium bowl. Divide the remaining frosting among 6 small bowls. Add 3 drops of the pink food coloring to one small bowl of frosting and mix until combined. Repeat with each of the remaining 5 colors--blue, red, yellow, green and turquoise--and small bowls of frosting.
• Transfer each color of frosting (including the plain frosting) to its own disposable piping bag and snip off the tip. Have ready 6 additional empty disposable piping bags.
• To make a two-toned swirl, fit one of the empty piping bags with a large round tip. You'll be neatly filling half of the bag with vanilla frosting and half of it with one of the colored frostings. First, pipe a thick stripe of vanilla frosting directly onto the inside wall of the empty piping bag, starting the stripe inside the tip and pulling it up several inches. Second, pipe a thick stripe of colored frosting starting inside the tip and pulling it up several inches on the opposite wall of the piping bag. Twist the top of the two-toned bag until the colors just join, then pipe it onto 2 of the cupcakes using a spiral motion. Remove the large round tip, wash and dry it thoroughly and fit it into the next empty piping bag. Repeat with the remaining vanilla frosting and colored frosting, washing and drying the piping tip thoroughly between colors and piping each two-toned color frosting onto 2 cupcakes.
• For the Aurora cupcakes: Top the pink and white frosted cupcakes with gold sanding sugar. Arrange 1 pink and 1 white flowers on top of each.
• For the Elsa cupcakes: Evenly top the blue and white frosted cupcakes with the snowflake sprinkles and rock candy.
• For the Ariel cupcakes: Arrange 2 purple shells on the center of each red and white frosted cupcake to create Ariel's bikini top. Arrange a handful of green pearls along the bottom of each cupcake to hint at the top of her tail.
• For the Belle cupcakes: Place a rose in the center of each yellow and white frosted cupcake and arrange the white pearls around it.
• For the Tiana cupcakes: Top each green and white frosted cupcake with a gold crown sprinkle and 2 eyeballs below it.
• For the Jasmine cupcakes: On the center of each turquoise and white frosted cupcake, arrange a gold triangle, blue jewel and second gold triangle in a line.

VANILLA CUPCAKES

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Line a 12-cup muffin pan with paper liners. Whisk the flour, baking powder and salt in a bowl. Beat the butter and sugar in a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment on medium-high speed until fluffy, about 4 minutes. Beat in the eggs, one at a time, scraping down the bowl as needed. Beat in the vanilla. Reduce the mixer speed to medium low; beat in half of the flour mixture, then all of the milk, then the remaining flour mixture until just combined.
• Divide the batter among the muffin cups, filling each three-quarters full. Bake until a toothpick inserted into the center of a cupcake comes out clean, 18 to 20 minutes, rotating the pan halfway through. Transfer the pan to a rack and let cool 5 minutes, then remove the cupcakes to the rack to cool completely. Top with Frosting.
• Whisk the egg whites, sugar and salt in a heatproof bowl set over a saucepan of simmering water (do not let the bowl touch the water) until the mixture is warm and the sugar dissolves. Remove the bowl from the pan; let cool slightly.
• Beat the egg white mixture in a stand mixer fitted with the whisk attachment (or with a hand mixer) on medium-high speed until stiff peaks form, 12 to 15 minutes. Beat in the butter a few pieces at a time, then continue beating until smooth. (Don't worry if the mixture looks separated at first-it will come together as you keep beating.)

AMY SEDARIS'S VANILLA CUPCAKES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375°F.
• In a large bowl, cream together butter and sugar. Add in the eggs, two teaspoons vanilla, salt and baking powder. Add flour and milk in batches, starting and ending with flour. Stir until batter is smooth and satiny.
• Fill paper-lined muffin tins with batter. Bake at 375° for 18- 20 minutes.
• For frosting, whip together the box of confectioners' sugar, half-and-half, and one teaspoon vanilla until smooth and fluffy.
• Allow cupcakes to cool about 45 minutes and frost.
• *HINT* I added about one extra teaspoon of vanilla to the batter.
• This recipe didn't specify, but I used all-purpose flour.
• To the frosting, I added a bit more half-and-half to reach a thinner consistency.

BILLY'S VANILLA, VANILLA CUPCAKES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Line cupcake pans with paper liners; set aside. In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, combine flours, sugar, baking powder, and salt; mix on low speed until combined. Add butter, mixing until just coated with flour.
• In a large glass measuring cup, whisk together eggs, milk, and vanilla. With mixer on medium speed, add wet ingredients in 3 parts, scraping down sides of bowl before each addition; beat until ingredients are incorporated but do not overbeat.
• Divide batter evenly among liners, filling about 2/3 full. Bake, rotating pan halfway through, until a cake tester inserted in the center comes out clean, 17 to 20 minutes.
• Transfer to a wire rack to cool completely. Repeat process with remaining batter. Once cupcakes have cooled, use a small offset spatula to frost tops of each cupcake. Decorate with sprinkles, if desired. Serve at room temperature.