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Why you should use yogurt in cake batter + an easy vanilla bean cupcake recipe

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Easy vanilla bean cupcake recipe by Edible Times

My all-time favorite vanilla cupcake recipe

One of my first, and absolutely favorite jobs in the food business was working as an assistant manager at the California-based SusieCakes Bakery. Yes, it had everything to with the free cupcakes at the end of the day that didn’t sell. We donated regularly to food banks, but of you closed up shop you usually made away with a least one dozen to take home.

Nostalgia is what SusieCakes sells, and I could never get enough of the vanilla cupcake that hails from a time gone by. Moist, dense and full of vanilla flavor, it hits all the right notes in all the right places. The bakery’s vanilla cupcake recipe – like all recipes from any bakery – is most likely stored in a vault, through a trap door, past a three-headed dog in a below-ground bunker. So now we turn to the internet.

The baking of many, many cupcakes

After taking a job as a news reporter in Florida, I decided I couldn’t live without these cupcakes. My husband even brought them back for me after a work trip to Los Angeles. But they were enjoyed in a jiffy, and I needed a way to get my fix. Sooooo… I baked. And baked. Searched high and low on the internet for mentions of tangy cake batter. Reported stories for the news on the housing crisis in Southwest Florida, then baked some more.

My own secret ingredient

I’ll never forget the awesome tang the vanilla cakes had, and whether or not my guess is right, the use of greek yogurt in the recipe below just about gets you there. However, I couldn’t stop at the yogurt due to an obsession with specialty baking ingredients, like say, vanilla beans.

Enter: vanilla bean paste. A bottle may seem a little cha-ching, but ounce per ounce it’s much less expensive than buying actual vanilla beans and SO much easier. The syrupy extract flowing with real vanilla beans can be found at specialty stores, here on Amazon (I like Rodelle), and is popping up more and more at local grocery stores, including Whole Foods (no longer Whole Paycheck, prices have dropped significantly since Amazon acquired the Texas-based chain). I use it for all manner of baking, including adding it for legit vanilla bean specs in French macarons.

Turn this batter in cupcakes, or double it up and bake a cake. Then ask your smart speaker to play some oldies, sit back, relax and enjoy a sweet little bit of nostalgia.

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Vanilla cupcake recipe by Edible Times

Easy Classic Vanilla Cupcake Recipe

  • Author: Christina
  • Prep Time: 15 minutes
  • Cook Time: 20 minutes
  • Total Time: 35 minutes
  • Yield: 12 cupcakes 1x
  • Category: Sweets
  • Method: Mixing + piping
  • Cuisine: Dessert
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Dense and delicious! A quick and easy cake recipe that gives you a tangy, wonderfully vanilla cake with a sturdy crumb. 


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Ingredients

Batter

1 1/3 cup all-purpose flour
1.5 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
3/4 cup granulated sugar
4 oz unsalted butter, room temperature
1/2 cup greek yogurt (or sour cream or creme fraiche)
1 egg
1 egg yolk
1 tbps vanilla bean paste* (or seeds from one vanilla bean pod, or 1 tsp vanilla extract)

Buttercream

8 oz unsalted butter, room temperature (two sticks)
3–4 cups confectioner’s sugar (around 12 oz)
1 tbs vanilla bean paste or vanilla extract
1/2 tsp salt
2 tsp heavy cream


Instructions

For Cupcakes

Preheat oven to 350º F. Line your pan with liners, or if baking cakes grease the pans with butter or coconut oil, then line with a parchment circle cut to fit the bottom.

In a large bowl combine flour, salt, baking powder, and sugar. Beat on low briefly to combine. Add butter, and mix on medium speed until coarse crumbs form, less than a minute. Blend in the sour cream, and you’ll find yourself with a lumpy batter.

Whisk together egg, egg yolk, and vanilla bean or paste in a small bowl and add to batter. It will be very thick and sticky.  Divide evenly among cups in pan (I like my ice cream scoop for portioning).

Bake for 18-20 minutes for standard cupcakes (12-14 for mini), or until a toothpick comes out clean. Cool in the pan for 5 minutes, then remove cupcakes and cool completely on a rack.

For Buttercream 

With a hand mixer, or a stand mixer with a whisk attachment, whip butter on high speed for at least three minutes, until it is light in color and doubles in volume. In one cup increments, beat in sugar (use more or less depending on taste and how sweet you like).  Beat in salt, vanilla and last the heavy cream.

For a fancy yet incredibly easy touch, load up your buttercream into a pastry bag (or large baggie, corner snipped) fitted with a star or drop flower tip.   Store covered for up to three days. Unfrosted cupcakes can be frozen as long as you can take the taunting from inside your freezer!

 


Notes

This recipe can easily be doubled for more cupcakes, or baked off in either two 6-inch, or one 8 or 9-inch cake pan until a toothpick comes out clean, between 25 and 30 minutes.  When doubling the recipe, make sure to evenly distribute batter between pans.. because if it looks the same it bakes the same!

 

Keywords: cupcake, easy cupcakes, vanilla cupcakes, easy buttercream, greek yogurt

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  1. Christel Hulslander says

    December 27, 2020 at

    Great information. Lucky me I recently found your site by chance (stumbleupon). I have saved as a favorite for later!|

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    December 13, 2020 at

    I love looking through a post that will make people think. Also, thank you for allowing me to comment!|

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