With a soft crumb and just the right amount of vanilla these cupcakes are easy to make on a weeknight but also special enough for a party.
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EASY Vanilla Cupcakes Recipe
Serious Eats / Morgan Hunt Glaze
When I was 14 I bought a copy of Fergal Connolly's 500 Cupcakes: The Only Cupcake Compendium You'll Ever Need. I had just become interested in baking and this book in my home was the end of my parents and their kitchen: I would spend afternoons and weekends making a huge mess of all sorts of cupcakes some more delicious than others. I begged my parents for a stand mixer and they obliged when they realized that baking was probably a healthier habit for their teenage daughter than… some other habits. I brought cupcakes to every party every bake sale every family gathering and forced them on anyone who stopped to ask how I was doing. The one recipe that never failed me was the vanilla cupcake that I flipped over and over again. It was the crowd favorite the one my friends expected me to show up with.
When I saw that my test kitchen colleague Anna Theokisto had developed a recipe for vanilla cupcakes I jumped at the chance to make them. In order to create the very best cupcakes possible Anna methodically tested every possible recipe variable including the best type of flour fat and liquid to use until she arrived at what another colleague described as the “perfect vanilla cupcakes.” Anna’s recipe hit the nail on the head: With a fine fluffy crumb and just the right amount of vanilla these cupcakes are easy enough to make on a weeknight yet special enough to make at a party. In other words they’re everything I want in a cupcake. Here’s how to make them.
