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- 1 3/4 cups cake flour (not self-rising)
- 1 1/4 cups unbleached all-purpose flour
- 2 cups sugar
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- 3/4 teaspoon salt
- 2 sticks unsalted butter, cut into cubes
- 4 large eggs
- 1 cup whole milk
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- Old Fashioned Frosting, recipe follows
1.) Preheat oven to 350 degrees F and line cupcake pans with cupcake liners. Set aside.
2.) Combine the following ingredients in a bowl: flours, sugar, baking powder, and salt. Add 2 sticks of butter in one inch cubes and mix with hand mixer.
3.) Then, add the wet ingredients starting with the eggs. Add eggs one at a time, then combine milk and vanilla extract with the batter. Mix thoroughly. My batch was particularly lumpy with butter, so if you have this same problem and just can’t get the butter to even out, don’t worry, the butter will melt and combine during the baking process!
4.) Scoop batter into cupcake liners until they are about 2/3 full. Put in oven and cook for 17-20 minutes. If you are using a gas stove, you’ll want to watch the golden-color of the cupcakes. If the tops of the cupcakes are just beginning to turn golden brown, pull them out, because they are done! However, if the tops are golden brown, there is a very good chance you have burned bottoms (this happened with my first batch, so I made sure to pull out the cupcakes when they were just beginning to finish baking/turn golden colored. This change made for perfect gold brown bottoms, not burnt bottoms!). Ahh…that sounds funny!
5.) Finally, wait until the cupcakes are completely cooled to decorate. I used a spray butter cream frosting from the store, but Paula suggests you use her “Old-Fashioned Frosting” which is essentially butter cream (milk, vanilla, butter, and confectioner’s sugar). You can find the Old-Fashioned frosting on the same website as the cupcake recipe listed above. Add frosting and sprinkle with cupcakes. Enjoy!
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