Wonderfully sweet and buttery, vanilla cupcakes are easy to make and particularly luscious with lemon icing on top. Follow this easy recipe to achieve perfect cupcakes every time, and freeze leftovers ready for those unexpected guests popping in for a cup of coffee.
Vanilla Cupcakes
Prep Time: 20 mins- Cook Time: 15 mins
- Total Time: 35 mins
Yield: 12-15 Cupcakes
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A classic vanilla cupcake recipe that is quick and easy to make.
Ingredients
- 1 ½ cups flour
- ¾ cup sugar
- 2 tsp baking powder
- ½ tsp salt
- ½ cup milk
- ½ cup oil
- 2 eggs
- 1 tsp vanilla essence
Instructions
- Sift dry ingredients together.
- Add wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and beat well until smooth and creamy.
- Place paper cups into muffin tin and fill each cup 3/4 full.
- Bake for 15 minutes at 180° C.
Icing
- Cream together 125g margarine and 125g icing sugar
- Add two tablespoons of milk and mix well.
- Add cocoa or food colouring.
A quick and easy recipe that tastes great! Not too sweet, just right. Fun to make with the kids as well.. Perfect with a cup of coffee 🙂
Love these – so quick and easy and they come out great every time. I have made them often since I discovered the recipe in July. Only thing: I have a 12 cupcake pan, and this recipe JUST makes enough for 12. Nowhere near 16.
The cupcakes are just what I was looking for. They came out moist and delicious. I used goats milk to make a dairy free version for my son (also used olive oil)
I used Olivani for the icing and found it to be quite buttery and sweet so will be searching for a different icing recipe for my next lot. Thanks for sharing 🙂
Cup cakes came out perfectly, but they were too sweet for my likings. I had to add a little extra milk and oil as the mixture was a bit too thick. I did not use this icing, I made a butter cream icing. Besides the sweetness and extra oil and milk, they were perfect.
The best cupcakes ever!! Quick and easy and always a winner! My kids loved it and I’m so selfish to share this recipe with anyone!
Thank you for this delicious cupcake recipe,I baked for the first time and it was perfect.My son loved it.unfortunately my icing flopped.The cupcakes were great tho.Thanks again
Can I make them in a cupcake maker?
Great recipe, quick easy fun. 30 min in total and my friend and I had cupcakes for a snack. Instead of the icing I melted chocolate and combined it with whipped fresh cream (delish!!). ?
Thanx for sharing! 😀
Brilliant, simple, recipe!
Super good! I loved them both the
cupcakes and the icing are great!?
Nice and simple. I supervised my 13 year old daughter to make them and they came beautiful
Yum best cupcakes ever
Very tasty 🙂
Followed the recipe to a T and they came out perfect! Moist, fluffy, buttery (surprisingly!) and the right sweetness for me. Was looking for oil instead of butter cupcakes and will be adding this recipe to my growing list of tried and tested recipes. Took no time at all especially if you have measuring cups and spoons. I just mixed all the wet ingredients together in a jug, quickly sifted the dry ingredients together and mixed the former into the latter and hey presto! Took 15 mins exactly- definitely perfect for a last minute treat if someone pops over or you just fancy it. Thank you!
The yummiest and easiest cupcakes ever, definitely saving this recipe fo future use.
I call this my kitchen cupcakes as I have everything I need to make them at hand. Inexpensive and delicious.
Hats off to you Louise ! What an awesome recipe ! all my family were spell bound ! thanks for sharing such a wonderful recipe !!! <3
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Please please what are the measurements In imperial or Metric….here in the uk we use kitchen scales, and weigh in ounces or grams. Either would be lovely
Could you pleased give me the measurements in ozs, as u.k. is different with our measurements. Thank you, Mrs. Forrest
It is a great and wonderful recipe thanks
this recipe is amazing i use it as my basic cupcake recipe then add all the different extras each time i make it. absolutely love it !!!
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I tried these cup cakes and the result was great.I just want one thing of anyone can answer.I used every ingredient in the mentioned quantity and beated well. Since my oven is not that much perfect there days so it took around 30 mins for me to get baked properly.But still I found that my cup cakes were not completely moist or like the better still needs to be baked .Can anyone guide me in this regard that what I should do to have completely soft and moiist cake without any feeling for some better needed to be baked more.
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The oven temp is in Celsius. You should have put it to 350°F.
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Perfect, first time round! shape, texture, taste, moist. This is a keeper.
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Perfect recipe and easy to make! Baked them this morning and had them for breakfast..they came out jst perfecto and they are so delish! My son loved them.
Thank you for such a simple and perfectly moist cupcake! I’ve been using this recipe for over two years and keep the link saved on my phone. I’ve often used it for a cake too. I’ve made over a 1000 cupcakes with this!!!!! Yummy!!