Vanilla Bean Cupcakes
photo by Smilyn
- Ready In:
- 34mins
- Ingredients:
- 10
- Yields:
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36 cupcakes
- Serves:
- 36
ingredients
- 3 cups baker's sugar (superfine)
- 3 eggs
- 3 egg whites
- 3 3⁄4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 1⁄2 cups milk
- 1 cup vegetable oil
- 3 1⁄4 teaspoons baking powder
- 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 vanilla bean
directions
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Line muffin tins with baking cups.
- In a large mixing bowl, beat sugar and eggs/whites together with an electric mixer until slightly thickened, about 2 minutes. Sift together the flour, baking powder and salt into a medium mixing bowl. Add the flour mixture, milk, oil, and vanilla to the eggs. Split the vanilla bean from end to end and scrape the seeds out with a knife. Add to the mix and incorporate the ingredients together slowly, just until the batter is smooth. Fill each muffin cup 2/3 full.
- Bake in preheated oven for 12-14 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean. Let cool completely before frosting.
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Reviews
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This is a really great recipe. You can modify it the more you make it. Couple of notes: the cook time was way more than 12-14 min. It was closer to 19-20 (other cupcake recipes usually run 375F for 20min, I didn't want them to brown so I kept the temp low and cooked longer.) I poured the milk way before I started cooking and scraped the vanilla bean into the milk and left the stalk in the milk (removing before mixing in the batter) to let the flavor infuse while I prepped all the ingredients and started the process. I also added another tsp of vanilla extract so that there was a clear vanilla flavor instead of just a hint. These cooked up beautifully and they're delicious. The aren't as spongy as a box mix but they aren't egg heavy like other recipes.
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These cupcakes are lightly sweet and bake up very nice. They are a little dense, so they hold up the frosting nicely. I used #222188 and added a little more milk to that than it called for. This fluffed up the frosting nicely to compliment the cake. I did not use baker's sugar, just granulated. I'm new to baking cupcakes not in a box and I really enjoyed it. I am looking for all natural cupcakes that do not have synthetic dyes or hydrogenated oils, this fits that perfectly. I will be using this for our daughter's birthday party coming up. Thanks for the post.