LovenCupcakes

I cannot find anything that attracts my attention at the grocery store more than cupcakes.  It’s like I have cupcake radar and my eyes immediately dart to the nearest cutely-shaped and sweetly decorated cakey treat around.  Oh it is bad.  While store bought and bakery purchased cupcakes are fun and tasty, I feel like for me I need the whole cupcake experience.  That means, I do the baking, the decorating, and the most important part, the eating.  I have baked (and eaten) so many cupcakes that it may be scary to some people, especially really thin and healthy people who wouldn’t dare look at a cupcake much less (GASP!) eat one.  Well, here is my cupcake recipe of the week.  Make some for yourself, you are sure to love them!  Enjoy!

Two-fer Vanilla Cupcakes

If you haven’t already noticed, I’m a glutton when it comes to delicious desserts.  So, when I am in need of a serious cupcake fix, I lack the self control to not down a whole batch, so my new favorite recipe is one I have dubbed a two-fer, it’s two cupcakes from one recipe.  A two-for-0ne, “two-fer.”

Cake Ingredients:                                                         White Buttercream Icing Ingredients:

1 egg white                                                                    1/2 stick of butter, room temperature

2 Tbs sugar                                                                    1 1/4 c. powdered sugar

2 Tbs melted butter                                                        1/2 tsp vanilla extract

1 tsp vanilla                                                                    2 oz. melted white chocolate

1/4 c. flour                                                                      1/2 – 1 tsp milk

1/4 tsp baking powder

1 1/2 Tbs milk

dash of salt

Directions – Cupcakes:

Preheat your oven to 350° and line your cupcake pan with 2 cupcake liners.

Add the egg white and sugar together in a bowl, and whisk until combined.  Stir in the melted butter and vanilla and mix.  Add baking powder, flour, and pinch of salt and stir together until it is smooth.  Stir in the milk.  Split up the batter equally between both of the cupcake liners.

Bake the cupcakes at 350° for about 10 minutes or until the cake has completely set.  Let them both cool, and then frost.

Directions – Frosting

Use an electric mixer and cream the butter until it is just fluffy.  Add in the vanilla extract.  Very slowly add in the powdered sugar, doing so 1/4 c. at a time mixing on a low speed.  Beat in the melted white chocolate, and to get to the right consistency, add in milk 1/2 tsp at a time.  If it is too liquid, then add more sugar.  If not enough liquid, add in milk.

This recipe is not only super easy and the perfect portion, but it tastes oh so good!  It is the perfect pick me up to the end of a day, and my husband and I love these.