By Chelsea Sugar
Page views: 716082Light, fluffy vanilla cupcakes with melt in the mouth butter icing. Add sprinkles and decorative flowers to make them just a little bit fancy!
75 reviews
Cupcakes:
150g butter, softened
1 1/2 cups Chelsea Caster Sugar
2 eggs
2 tsp vanilla essence
2 1/2 cups self-raising flour
1 1/4 cups milk
Buttercream Icing:
100g butter, softened
1 1/2 cups Chelsea Vanilla Flavoured Icing Sugar*
1-2 Tbsp milk
Raspberries, sugar flowers or sprinkles to decorate
*You can use Chelsea Icing Sugar + 2-3 drops vanilla essence as an alternative.
Cupcakes: Preheat oven to 190°C conventional or 170°C fan-forced. Beat 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 flour, 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 butter until it is pale and fluffy. Sift in the Chelsea Vanilla Flavoured Icing Sugar and mix, adding milk until you have a light, fluffy mixture. Add extra milk if you need a softer consistency. Spread or pipe icing over cupcakes and top with decorations as desired.
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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