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Easy Yellow Cupcakes
Easy yellow cupcakes recipe (butter cupcakes), with chocolate buttercream frosting. They are super fluffy, soft, moist and homemade with simple ingredients.
👥 24 Servings⏱️ Prep & Cook: 30 min⏳ Prep: 10 min🔥 Cook: 20 min👤 Abeer Rizvi📖 cakewhiz
🥘 Ingredients
Check off ingredients as you prepare them:
🍳 Cookware
- bowl
- mixing bowl
- spatula
- whisk
📝 Preparation Steps
1
In a large mixing bowl, cream together butter and sugar until light and fluffy. This takes about ⏱️ 2-4 minutes.
2
Add eggs, vanilla extract, almond extract, sour cream, milk, yellow food coloring and mix until combined.
Eggs (Large)3Vanilla extract2 tspSour cream (Full fat)1 cup
3
Be sure to scrape the sides with a spatula a few times during mixing to allow all the ingredients to blend together properly.
4
In another mixing bowl, whisk together cake flour, baking powder, baking soda.
Cake flour (Can also replace with all-purpose flour but the texture from cake flour is better)2.5 cupsBaking powder2 tsp
5
Add this dry mixture into the wet mixture and mix until just combined. Do not over-mix! A few lumps in the batter are completely fine.
6
Be sure to scrape the sides with a spatula at least once during mixing to allow all the ingredients to blend together smoothly.
7
Scoop batter into cupcake liners.
8
Bake at 350 degrees F for about ⏱️ 18-20 minutes or until an inserted toothpick in the center coms out clean.
9
While the cupcakes are baking, prepare the chocolate frosting.
10
Attach a large star tip to a piping bag and fill it with frosting.
11
Once the cupcakes cool completely, pipe swirls of icing on top of each cupcake.
12
Toss some sprinkles on top. Enjoy!
Sprinkles (For decorating)2 tbsp
Nutrition Facts
calories
329 kcal
fat Content
15 g
serving Size
1 serving
fiber Content
1 g
sugar Content
35 g
sodium Content
163 mg
protein Content
3 g
cholesterol Content
41 mg
carbohydrate Content
47 g
saturated Fat Content
7 g
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