Yesterday I made one of my favorite recipes – Buttermilk Cupcakes! If you love making cupcakes and don’t have Martha Stewart’s Cupcake Cookbook, it is a must have. It’s filled with beautiful photos, yummy cupcakes and great decorating ideas.
Here is her recipe for :
Yellow Buttermilk Cupcakes
Ingredients
- 3 cups cake flour, (not self-rising)
- 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 3/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 2 1/4 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 1/2 teaspoons coarse salt
- 1 cup plus 2 tablespoons (2 1/4 sticks) unsalted butter, room temperature
- 2 1/4 cups sugar
- 5 large whole eggs plus 3 egg yolks, room temperature
- 2 cups buttermilk, room temperature
- 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
Directions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line standard muffin tins with paper liners. Sift together both flours, baking soda, baking powder, and salt.
- With an electric mixer on medium-high speed, cream butter and sugar until pale and fluffy. Reduce speed to medium. Add whole eggs, one at a time, beating until each is incorporated, scraping down sides of bowl as needed. Add yolks, and beat until thoroughly combined. Reduce speed to low. Add flour mixture in three batches, alternating with two additions of buttermilk, and beating until combined after each. Beat in vanilla.
- Divide batter evenly among lined cups, filling each three-quarters full. Bake, rotating tins halfway through, until cupcakes spring back when lightly touched and a cake tester inserted in centers comes out clean, about 20 minutes. Transfer tins to wire racks to cool 10 minutes; turn out cupcakes onto racks and let cool completely.
*Recipe taken from Martha Stewart.com (link above)
Ready for our Thomas themed birthday party!
One of my friends is a remarkable cake decorator. Knowing that I wanted something special for our boys’ 3rd birthday I asked her if she would decorate the cupcakes for me. I dropped off the baked and cooled cupcakes and then a few hours later she called to say they were ready. Here they are decorated and ready for the party. Aren’t they AMAZING!
These are the most stunning cupcakes I’ve seen. AMazing :)
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Thank you! I wish I could say I decorated them – but in awe of my friend who did!
It’s not what you know, it’s who you know! Those are fantastic!
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So very true Rosey!
Kerrie @ Family Food and Travel recently posted..Buttermilk Cupcakes + Thomas the Train
Those look great…and delicious!
Your boys will love them.
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Wow those looks soooooo good….
Could I use something like coconut or rice milk for these instead of buttermilk – I can’t do dairy products.
Jan – I would think so. As long as it wasn’t a sweet milk – then add 1 tbsp of vinegar or lemon juice to it to change the consistency. Let me know how they turn out!
What great cupcakes. I have to make them soon! And those Thomas cupcakes will be a huge hit, I’m sure. I like your blog too!
Thank you Pam. The cupcakes were absolutely a big hit with everyone!
Kerrie @ Family Food and Travel recently posted..Buttermilk Cupcakes + Thomas the Train
Mummmmmmmm que rico.!!!
Un saludo.
I’m going to pin these, they are so cute!
Are these cupcakes fully and light?
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I hope you enjoy them as much as we do when you get a chance to make them!
Kerrie @ Family Food and Travel recently posted..Buttermilk Cupcakes + Thomas the Train
Cool! Never made a buttermilk cupcake before! and the Thomas decorating is fantastic!
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Love these. I will have to remember them for DS birthday in the summer, he is a big Thomas fan
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Those are fantastic!
By the way …you had me at Buttermilk cupcakes!
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Well my little nephew who I love to talk to on the phone and play with would eat all of those little piece of artwork in about three minutes! Big Thomas lover.
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those cupcakes look amazing from beginning to end
enjoy your week
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Oh my goodness! Those cupcakes are fantastic! I think it’s cool that you made them too. I bet that they were well received! Happy 3rd! xx
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I’d love to know if these are light and fluffy or more of a dense cupcake!
MultiTestingMom recently posted..A Wardrobe Overhaul
buttermilk! Yum never thought of buttermilk cupcakes before. I will be book marking this one for sure!
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These are the cutest cupcakes!!!
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Cute and yummy!
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OMGosh that is so AWESOME! My nephew is a complete fanatic for Thomas, so will have to see if I can do something similar for his bday in November. :D Thanks for the inspiration!
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The boys still talk about the cupcakes almost every day!
I love the Buttermilk cupcakes!! Oh and your Thomas cupcakes are very very cute.
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These look so yummy. I just bought my daughter her first trains, so I’m sure these cupcakes aren’t far off :)