By Chelsea Sugar![Vanilla Cupcakes with Buttercream Icing]()
Page views: 1655496Light, fluffy vanilla cupcakes with melt in the mouth butter icing. Add sprinkles and decorative flowers to make them just a little bit fancy!
245 reviews
Cupcakes:
150g Tararua Butter, softened
1 1/2 cups Chelsea Caster Sugar
2 eggs
2 1/2 cups Edmonds Self Raising Flour
1 1/4 cups Meadow Fresh Milk
2 tsp vanilla essence
Buttercream Icing:
100g Tararua Butter, softened
1 1/2 cups Chelsea Icing Sugar
2-3 drops vanilla essence
1-2 Tbsp Meadow Fresh Milk
Raspberries, sugar flowers or sprinkles to decorate
Cupcakes: Preheat oven to 190°C conventional or 170°C fan-forced. Beat Tararua Butter with an electric mixer until smooth, add Chelsea Caster Sugar and beat until light and fluffy. Add eggs and mix well. Add the sifted Edmonds Self Raising Flour, Meadow Fresh Milk and vanilla, beat until smooth. Place paper baking cases in a cupcake tin, spoon in mixture until they are about 2/3 full (don't overfill or they will form peaks). This recipe makes 24 cupcakes so you might need to do this in two batches. Bake for 20 minutes until golden or until they spring back when lightly pressed. Turn out onto a wire rack to cool while you prepare the icing.
Buttercream Icing: Beat the Tararua Butter until it is pale and fluffy. Sift in the Chelsea Icing Sugar, add vanilla essence and mix. Add Meadow Fresh Milk until you have a light, fluffy mixture. Add extra Meadow Fresh Milk if you need a softer consistency. Spread or pipe icing over cupcakes and top with decorations as desired.
Easy to follow. Get my 3 year old to help me. Each time we have made them, they come out great. No fail recipe.
it was so easy to make and soo delicious definitely recommend this recipe best cupcakes eveeeeeeeeeeer
My first attempt at making cupcakes. Made them with my 3 years old and it was so easy and turned out absolutely delicious! We used almond milk and dairy free spread instead due to allergies and it turned out amazing!
these were a great treat. it was maybe a teensy bit dense but the icing makes up for it !!
and easy!!!
Really bad recipe, I’m normally the master of making cupcakes and needed a reminder of the measurements and they were completely off. Cupcakes ended up deflating and looking like Yorkshire puddings. Do not use this recipe.
Chelsea do some great baking recipes but I'm disappointed by this one .. incredibly thick mixture that's hard to work with, and very, VERY sweet
Perfect recipe! I thought it would be too sweet but it’s the best vanilla cupcakes I’ve ever tasted and all have eaten them say the same!
I like cupcake,
I eat twenty-four.
yet i still want more,
bake bake bake, mix, mix, mix
just four more,
I like cupcakes,
AND I EAT THEM ALL!!
-Banana
Honestly, the best cupcake recipe I have ever used! cheap and easy to find ingredients, it makes enough for a large party at minimal cost.... Not to mention they taste phenomenal!
I loved this recipe. I made Easter cupcakes for my family and they loved, I’m only ten. I hope others enjoy this recipe as much as I do happy Easter!
As others have mentioned, the cupcakes were really dry. I bake often and am confident that my measurements were correct, yet they were still far too dry and lacked the lovely fluffy texture that cupcakes should have. I was quite disappointed.
It tasted so so so good I hope other people love this recipe as much as I do!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks to whoever that made this recipe.
This is the third time making this recipe and its perfect every time. For anyone not having success maybe they neeed a decent mixer - this recipe is sooo easy and yummy
I have been making these cupcakes for my daughter's birthday every year since she was 2. They have never failed me !
I love using these recipes and I’m only 12 years old and I love to bake and my family loves these recipes
I’ve been using the buttercream icing from this recipe for the past couple of years. SOO yum, it’s popular within the family.
Where do we use the vanilla essence? Four stars.
CHELSEA SUGAR: Hi there, the vanilla essence goes in with the milk in the cupcakes and the icing sugar in the buttercream. Enjoy!
Can you use this batter and bake it as a cake?
CHELSEA SUGAR: Hi there, we haven't tried this but think it should work ok. Otherwise you could try this recipe instead: https://www.chelsea.co.nz/browse-recipes/birthday-cake/
This is my all-time favourite cupcake recipe. I've made them at least a dozen times, fool proof recipe. Kids and adults love them!
This was a great recipe even though I added brown sugar instead of white, the buttercream was delicious and the family agrees with me.
Honestly really disappointed. The mix was too thick, and the butter cream was too loose. Disappointed in you CSF. I always held you to higher standards. Maybe not.
I found the cupcakes very dense and bland, even though I added extra vanilla. The buttercream however was delicious.
A really easy recipe to make and cakes turned out light and fluffy. Even the icing was perfect and made it pink for Breast Cancer Week and Anti-bullying Day morning tea at school for the teachers and students. Very happy with my contribution as they look and taste lovely. Great recipe.
The best recipe for fluffy, delicious cupcakes. I honestly have no idea how this recipe has some bad reviews. I’ve made these cupcakes at least 10 times now over the past couple of years and they’re perfect every time :)
Easy to make and the recipe was also easy to follow. My only problem with this recipe is that the final outcome of the muffins is that they are a bit bland even with some added vanilla. Otherwise a tasty treat!
I read the reviews and they weren't very convincing, when I made it it tasted amazing. I really recommend this recipe for anyone to do with your family or by yourself. Yum!
Cupcakes were dry and even my kids didn't like them. Preferred the Vanilla Cake recipe to make Cupcakes.
FIRST TIME BAKER - had no choice but to try and learn how to bake due to covid restrictions and we found this recipe very easy and fun to follow! Our cupcakes turned out perfect that my kids, especially the birthday girl, and hubby were big fans!! Very pleased with how these turned out especially with it being my very first time to bake from scratch!! If your cupcakes didn’t turn out quite right, you DEFINITELY have done something wrong! 5 stars from me!!!
It was terrible tasting and had no flavour, it was also very flat and uncooked. I tried making this with my daughters and we measured everything perfectly and it ended up horrible! Believe me you do not want to use this recipe it was very bad and I do not recommend it.
Thank you Chelsea for your yummy recipes because it's rough during covid-19 so thank you!!! Oh and a 10/10
To make gluten free, we used 2 cups GF flour and 1/2 cup ground almonds - and doubled the vanilla - delicious!
Favourite cupcake recipe. Can also use as a base to make other flavour ones! 10/10 always use this one!
I am using your recipes so much through this tough time! stay home, stay safe, stay kind. we can do this together New Zealand!!!! also 10 out of 10 recipe.
lovely and soft will bake them again
I have decided to do this for my school project.
When I finished it, it tasted so good! The teachers said to me "well done" though it was kind off complicated.
Lovely! really nice fluffy, cupcakes. really versatile! i added some berry and chocolate and it worked like a treat! i would definitely recommend!
It was a good recipe at first I’m like that’s never going to rise because 20 minutes is not enough but it did so happy baking bakers
its amazing works every time. I just add some coco and BAM chocolate cupcakes! another good way is putting some jam in the cupcakes once they are out of the oven it is amazing!
The best Chelsea recipe EVER!!!
I love making these.
I also double the icing mixture makes it easier to ice them.
I made these and they were great and all but WOW SO MANY!! I made like 23 cupcakes and a small loaf of this recipe! Next time I would halve it, or quarter!! Maybe a bit dry but that might just have been me.
This recipe was great. Mine were really small and only made 16. They are really tasty though.
This recipe was a fail when I took them out of the oven after 30mins(that's how long it took to cook) they were very crumbly and did not come out of the tins over all they were very crumbly and did not hold its shape when I took them out of the tins!!!
Awseome i loved it...
U guys are so good at cooking...i wish i could be like you guys anyways i did the cupcakes and they tasted OK. But add least i did great on the icing... it really helped to and the topping...This is so amazing...KEEP DOING WHAT YOU DO BEST CHELSEA!!!!!
Soooo good! I managed to get 24 big cupcakes and 24 minis. Even though I only iced the big ones I had to make a double batch of icing. To make raspberry lemonade icing substitute the milk for lemon juice (Or lemonade!) and add 1 teaspoon of raspberry essence . I LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE this recipe!
So good! I made them as mini cupcakes and just cooked them a little less long. Still so yummy though!!
THE CUPCAKES ARE GREAT AND THE ICING WAS TOO BUT WE ENDED UP MESSING IT UP SO THE ICING WE MADE WAS SCODY BUT THAT WAS OUR FAULT.
For a little bit of help, is there a way of having the price of the all the ingredients would come to?
How much do i need to times this by to make 100 cupcakes!? CHELSEA: The recipe makes 24 cupcakes, so multiply the ingredients by 4. Good luck!
This recipe has never failed me and is a real favourite in our house, the grandsons can't get enough of them =)
This recipe is sooo good! I've made this twice now, and both times they've come out moist and fluffy. I haven't tried using the buttercream recipe (I use a different one for cakes and cupcakes) but they were very easy to make
This recipe is sooo good! I've made this twice now, and both times they've come out moist and fluffy. I haven't tried using the buttercream recipe (I use a different one for cakes and cupcakes) but they were very easy to make
I Like Food
I like cake!
Cake should be,
On your plate!
Cupcakes are nice,
cute and small,
I eat cake,
I EAT IT ALL!
I think this recipe was amazing! The cupcake tastes very good and doesn’t take a long time to bake. Definitely worth making
YUMMY I LOVE IT!
This is my favourite cupcake/cake recipe! - it makes 2 cakes (or one very large) which you can bake in the oven for 30 minutes :)
Super yummy! So light and airy, but well cooked. I made forty of them (twenty big, twenty small) with strawberry essence (I also did some with coconut, orange, mint and caramel) instead of vanilla, and they taste SO GOOD! Keep up the delicious recipes, Chelsea!
These are brilliant! So moist and fluffy, perfect cupcakes which were a huge hit. Adding this to my favourites
This was so good I don't know what to say but these cupcakes stunned me. I liked that they weren't dry like other cupcakes.
This recipe was amazing. The cupcakes came out amazing!!!
The recipe was good it's really nice light and fluffy if you a quick and easy recipe this is the one for you! I loved this recipe and I definitely record it!
These cupcakes were perfect foe my mum's birthday mum loved them they were really good for putting candles in and every one love's them i made a lot of them for my son to take to university.
xx
you should make these cupcakes with half a donut merged into the side of the icing opposite to the strawberry! (thats what im doing)
I made these for my daughter's birthday and they were delicious! I popped the leftover cupcakes in the freezer and they were excellent over the coming weeks (allow to return to room temperature).
I love these cupcakes! I often halve the recipe as I find I don’t always need 24. It should be pointed out that this frosting recipe is only enough for 12 cupcakes, if you want to frost 24 you need to double it.
Quick and easy recipe. I didn't overfill my cases and this ended up making 36 cupcakes and I probably could have made 4 more but ran out of cases!
Love it
After making these cupcakes for the first time I haven't stopped. They are so yummy and everyone always tells me after one bite that they are amazing and gets me to make them for special events! Great job guys!
Followed each step accordingly and though the cupcakes turned out looking really good and smelling delicious, their taste just disappointed me. They were too moist yet unflavourful and tasted bad.
OMG! These are the fluffiest and lightest cupcakes I've ever made! There turned out sooooo good! Been baking for a couple of years now and I think I've got myself a new favorite cupcake recipe.
My first time to try and it's not too bad! Turned out light and fluffy, smells really yummy! A little bit too sweet for me, but my 3 year old loved it :):)
Both the cupcake batter and the icing split despite me following this recipe to the letter. Not very good.
Easy to make and very yummy..I've made these 10 times at 24 cupcakes each with cream cheese frosting..yeyah!! Awesome combination..
Lovely quick and easy recipe. Beautiful soft moist texture. Definitely adding this to my staple recipes.
Great standard recipe that turned out light fluffy & tasted good. Love how it does 24! Will keep using.
It was so good they were light and fluffy and I would definitely recommend making them.
I loved this recipe.
But to think that other people are giving this recipe one star, I think they just haven't given it their all and just gave up half of the way.
I made them for my family and guests, I made quite a lot of cupcakes about 30 cupcakes and I didn't double the recipe. I like the batter it was so thick that I added a bit more milk in it and three eggs into the batter and I use way more than two tsp probably use about two tablespoon
I haven't eaten these yet, they are in the oven baking atm. I put a bit of strawberries and cream essence in these with a little rose pink food colouring. They smell devine, and the batter is super delicious :) I will be making these again, my boys will be super happy when they get home to home made baking :)
It is my first time to bake and it was a Success! This recipe is very helpful because it is so easy to understand and to follow. So grateful for a yummy cupcake.
It is delicious I loved this recipe, it is so easy to make and they taste so good, they are moist and spongy and the icing is really good.
Very easy to make, light and fluffy, doesn't stick to the paper at all. Would highly recommend they taste absolutely delicious!
Very easy to make and so yummy
Always failed at making pavlova, untill I tried this method. All are now near perfect... thanks Chelsea.
So easy and tastes delicious. Made some mini cupcakes with leftover mixture too. Cooking time recommended was perfect.
This is an awesome and very easy cupcake recipe and they taste amazing.
Absolutely amazing!!! Definitely recommend this recipe, is moist and fluffy - the best part is I didn't need to go to the supermarket!!!! Delicious treats!
Really yummy, tried with Lemon juice added to the icing and worked a treat! Love this cupcake recipe - it's a great staple. :)
Really easy to make super Yummy vanilla cupakes we love them so much they are delicious !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So delicious and so moist (A go-to recipe)
These cupcakes are so moist and so delicious
These are the best cupcakes
These are the best cupcakes i've ever made!
Lovely light and fluffy cupcakes. Used them for my daughters Birthday Cupcake Tower and they went down a treat with all the girls.
looks so nice tastes so nice, I LOVE IT
Very soft and fluffy. My granddaughter made marble cupcakes using this recipe.
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