Easy Moist vanilla cupcakes with frosting recipe

It's really super easy to make yummy vanilla cupcakes. Here's a very easy receipe to follow:

Vanilla Cupcakes with frosting recipe

Makes 16 cupcakes

Ingredients:

A. Dry ingredients:

1 and 3/4 cup all purpose flour

1 tsp baking power

1/4 tsp baking soda

1/4 tsp salt

B. Wet ingredients:

1/2 cup butter

1 cup sugar

2 eggs

1/2 cup milk

1/2 cup yogurt

2 tsp vanilla extract

Method:

1. Pre-heat oven to 180°C.

2. Sift together all the dry ingredients (section A) and leave it one side.

3. Cream together butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Then add in the eggs one at a time.

4. In a seperate bowl, Mix together the remaining wet ingredients (yogurt, milk and vanilla extract) and leave it one side.

5. Add in 1/3 of the dry ingredients to the creamed mixture and then add in 1/2 of the wet ingredients. Repeat until all ingredients are combined. We are done when streaks of flour in the batter are not visible.

6. Line cupcake pans with cupcake liners and fill with 1/4 cup batter.

7. Bake for 15-18 minutes at 180°C or until golder brown. Let the cupcakes cool to room temperature.

Vanilla Buttercream Frosting (optional)

Ingredients:

2 cups powdered sugar

1 cup unsalted butter

2 tsp vanilla extract

Rainbow sprinkles (optional)

Food coloring (optional)

Method:

1. To make the frosting, mix together butter, vanilla extract and food colouring in a bowl.

2. In a separate bowl, sift the powdered sugar. Then add to the butter mixture slowly and mix until mixture is smooth. 

3. Pipe frosting into the COOLED cupcakes and sprinkle with rainbow sprinkles for added colour and crunch.