Twas the night before Thanksgiving, when all through the house a baker was stirring; just kidding it wasn’t a house; the cupcakes were baked in the oven with care, in hopes that they would turn out for all to share.
The pressure was on. I needed to bake the perfect yellow cupcakes. Why? They were for Mr. Ralph. (Nick’s Dad) Yellow seems to be the favorite cupcake flavor among most, and I wanted to bring them to their “Night before Thanksgiving” party. It had been a long time since I baked yellow cupcakes, I didn’t have any recipes to follow, so I browsed the internet for some five star recipes. I found a recipe (won’t disclose) that had great reviews and decided to bake them. The batter tasted amazing, they rose perfectly, they were moist, and golden yellow, but they tasted like cornbread! I tossed those out. I tried my next recipe (won’t disclose), the cupcakes turned out great, but they were more like white cake. I kept those, but decided to try out one more recipe! Third time’s a charm right? I found a recipe on the Taste of Home website that had pretty good reviews. They were a success. They tasted like yellow cupcakes, they were moist, yellow, and fluffy!
Cupcake Ingredients: *2/3 cup butter, softened, *1 3/4 cups sugar, *2 eggs, *1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract, *2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour, *2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder, *1/2 teaspoon salt, *1 1/4 cups 2 % milk
Chocolate Buttercream Frosting Ingredients: *1/2 cup butter, softened, *1/3 cup cocoa powder, *2 tsp vanilla extract, *3 cups powdered sugar or more, *1/4 cup of whole milk or more.
Vanilla Buttercream Frosting Ingredients: *1/2 cup butter, softened, *2 tsp vanilla extract, *3 1/2 cups powdered sugar or more, *1/4 cup of whole milk or more.
1. Preheat oven to 350.
2. Line cupcake pan with liners and spray them with cooking spray.
3. In an electric mixer, cream butter and sugar.
4.Mix in eggs (one at a time) and beat well after each egg.
5. Beat in vanilla.
6. In a separate bowl whisk the flour, baking powder, and salt.
7. Add the dry ingredients to the egg, butter, and sugar bowl. Alternate the flour bowl with the milk and beat well.
8. Fill the liners 3/4th full.
9. Bake 15-20 minutes. (use toothpick test to make sure they’re done)
For the vanilla frosting, add all the ingredients to an electric mixer and combine! Add more butter to make it creamier, more milk to lighten it, and more powdered sugar to thicken it!
Do the same for the chocolate frosting, but add the cocoa powder! If you need it more chocolate-y add more cocoa powder!
You can keep these cupcakes out on the counter! They do not need refrigerated. 🙂
Recipe makes 2 dozen!
Jessica says
YUMMY!!!!!!!
Yanet says
Yellow cake is my favorite too. I don’t like the boxed kind. I will try these!
Taralynn McNitt says
They are much better than the boxed!
Linda @ TheFitty says
Hmm, would this work with ghee instead of butter?
Taralynn McNitt says
I’ve only cooked with ghee! I’m not sure, but you could try it out!
Kristin C says
What is ghee?
Sarah Flixon says
I made your whiskey cupcakes for my grampy and he loved them. I think these are next!
Taralynn McNitt says
Aww so glad you liked them!
Tessa says
I’m making these for Christmas! Thanks Taralynn!!!!
Taralynn McNitt says
Hope you like them!
Melanie says
I am so excited to try this recipe! Cupcakes are my favorite thing to bake.
Btw these cupcakes look perfect! I hope I can frost mine as well as you did!
Taralynn McNitt says
Thank you! I used a 8.00 frosting gun! theyre so easy 🙂
Erin says
Taralynn these look amazing! Like professional amazing! I am impressed and can’t wait to make them.
Taralynn McNitt says
ahhhhh thank you thank you!!!!:)
Ashley @ AllAshleyMarie says
Can’t wait to make these, they are perfect for all of the picky eaters that I live with!
Kristin C says
I crochet as a side business and I have started watching Cupcake Wars while I crochet. I’ve really enjoyed it, and I’ve been in a baking mood ever since. Problem is….I don’t really like cupcakes all that much.
Maybe I just haven’t had a good recipe? I’m going to try yours and see what happens 🙂
Jaime hutkin says
Laughed out loud at your photo with the circle. Glad you were honest because it was too funny!
finia says
made these and they were fantastic
cam says
Incredible!
Andrea says
I love to bake, but haven’t found a yellow cake recipe that is good, fluffy, and doesn’t taste like straight eggs yet until this one. I just took the first pan out of the oven, and my goodness, they are so delicious and pretty! This is most definitely going in my recipe box, thank you so much! Can’t wait for everybody to try them! =D
bali says
Best recipe ever.