How To Make Vanilla Bean Cupcakes
Enjoy a more robust vanilla flavor with this tasty cupcakes recipe! It comes with a smooth vanilla bean frosting to top things off.
Serves:
Ingredients
For Cupcakes:
- ¾cupall-purpose flour
- ¾cupcake flour
- 1½tspbaking powder
- ¼tspsalt
- ½cupunsalted buttersoftened
- ¾granulated sugarplus 2 tablespoons
- 1vanilla beandeseeded
- 1large large egg
- 2egg whiteslarge
- 1tspvanilla extract
- ⅔cupmilkanything but skimmed
For Vanilla Bean Buttercream Frosting:
- ¾cupbutternearly at room temperature, preferably ½ cup unsalted and ¼ cup salted
- 1vanilla beandeseeded
- 3cupspowdered sugar
- 2tbspheavy cream
- ½tspvanilla extract
Instructions
Cupcakes:
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Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
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Line a 12-cup muffin pan with paper liners.
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Sift all-purpose flour and cake flour into a medium mixing bowl. Add baking powder and salt and whisk 20 seconds, set aside.
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In the bowl of an electric stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, cream together butter, granulated sugar and seeds of 1 vanilla bean until mixture is pale and fluffy.
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Mix in egg then the egg whites one at a time.
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Blend in vanilla extract.
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With the mixer set on low speed, add flour in three additions alternating with ½ of the milk in two additions.
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Remove bowl from stand mixer, scrape the sides of the mixture, then gently fold the batter with a spatula to until evenly combined.
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Divide batter among paper lined muffin cups filling each cup ⅔ full.
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Bake in the oven until a toothpick inserted into center comes out clean, about 17 to 20 minutes.
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Remove from oven, then transfer cupcakes to a wire rack to cool.
Vanilla Bean Buttercream Frosting:
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In the bowl of an electric stand mixer, cream together butter and seeds of one vanilla bean until butter is fluffy.
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Add in powdered sugar, cream and vanilla and whip until frosting is light and fluffy.
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Once cupcakes are cook, frost with Vanilla Bean Buttercream Frosting.
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Serve, and enjoy!
Nutrition
- Calories: 4552.80kcal
- Fat: 380.00g
- Saturated Fat: 238.87g
- Trans Fat: 14.88g
- Monounsaturated Fat: 98.08g
- Polyunsaturated Fat: 15.46g
- Carbohydrates: 257.28g
- Fiber: 5.70g
- Sugar: 55.64g
- Protein: 36.88g
- Cholesterol: 1023.30mg
- Sodium: 2372.09mg
- Calcium: 458.04mg
- Potassium: 734.15mg
- Iron: 16.18mg
- Vitamin A: 3236.21µg
- Vitamin C: 0.02mg
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