A cupcake for any occasion!

Spring is almost upon us! And if you are like me... then you like to make cute, detailed, and festive cupcakes...maybe with grass? Or bunnies? Or butterflies?!... so sometimes its just nice to have a simple cupcake recipe to use under all that detailed frost-art.... So here is a good one! Super moist, super simple, yellow cupcakes.

Basic Yellow Cupcakes!

Ingredients:

1 cup                             Unsalted butter, room temp
1 and 1/2  cups              Sugar
3 cups                            All-purpose flour
3 tsp.                             Baking powder
1 tsp.                             Sea salt (fine)
4                                    Eggs, room temp
1 cup                             Milk
2 tsp.                             Pure vanilla extract


Pre-heat oven to 350. Line a standard muffin tin with cupcake liners. In a mixer with fitted paddle, cream together butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs one at a time until fully incorporated. In a separate bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, and salt. Add flour mixture alternately with milk/vanilla in 3 batches (scraping down sides as necessary). Scoop (a cookie dough scoop works best to make even cupcakes) into tins. Bake until done (toothpick comes out clean). 

Basic Buttercream:

1 cup                            Unsalted butter, room temp
4 cups                           Powdered sugar
1/4 tsp.                         Salt
1 tbls.                           Pure vanilla extract
4 (or more) tbls.          Heavy cream



In a mixer with fitted paddle, cream butter until smooth. Add powdered sugar 1 cup at a time (mixture will look dry at first but carry on!). Add salt and vanilla until incorporated. Add heavy cream by the tablespoon fulls until buttercream reaches the right consistency.