| Level: | Easy |
| Total: | 44 min |
| Prep: | 25 min |
| Cook: | 19 min |
| Yield: | 24 cupcakes |
Ingredients
- 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 2 sticks butter, softened
- 2 cups sugar
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- 5 eggs
- 1 cup whole milk
- Colored sprinkles, for decorating
- Candy hearts, for decorating
- Sweet Vanilla Frosting, recipe follows
- 2 sticks butter, softened
- 3 cups powdered sugar
- 1/2 cup whole milk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 5 drops red food coloring
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F.
- In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt, set aside.
- In large bowl, add the butter and sugar. Beat with an electric hand mixer until light and fluffy. Add the eggs and vanilla and mix well. Slowly alternate between adding the milk and the flour mixture, ending with milk.
- Line 2 (12 capacity) cupcake pans with Valentine’s Day paper liners. Using a standard ice-cream scoop, fill each liner 2/3 full. Bake until a cake tester inserted in the center comes out clean about 18 to 20 minutes Remove the pans from the oven and put on a wire rack to cool completely.
- Frost the cupcakes with Sweet Vanilla Frosting. Use an offset spatula or butter knife to spread the frosting on top of the cooled cupcakes. Decorate with sprinkles and candy hearts. Enjoy with your loved ones!
- In a large bowl add the butter and a few cups of sugar. Beat together until combined. Slowly alternate between adding the remaining sugar with the wet ingredients, being careful not to over beat.
Nutrition Facts
| Serving Size | 1 of 24 servings |
| Calories | 334 |
| Total Fat | 17 g |
| Saturated Fat | 10 g |
| Carbohydrates | 44 g |
| Dietary Fiber | 0 g |
| Sugar | 33 g |
| Protein | 3 g |
| Cholesterol | 75 mg |
| Sodium | 187 mg |
Reviews
These were terrible cupcakes. They had a weird texture, spread a goo all over the pans, and didn’t taste like anything. Hard pass these!
Worst cupcakes ever! Had to cook them much longer which made them dry. They spread all over the cupcake pans; were hard to remove. Threw them out and had to buy a cakemix! If i could raate them lower I would. Yucky would not reccommend!
After watching this episode with his daughter Jordan, I decided to try this recipe for my family. I must say Jordan is absolutely the cutest little girl ever!! I was a little hesitant to make the frosting pink, but my son and his football team loved them, and a few of them even took some home to give to their moms. Thanks big Daddy for the inspiration!!
the cupcakes were not done in 20 minutes, so I baked them nother 5 minutes on 350. the flavor is good but I’m not too fond of the texture:airy/spongy.
Let me start off by saying that this recipe is simply delicious. My brother can’t have gluten or dairy, so I substituted butter with shortening, white flour with his special flour, and milk with dairy-free flax milk. The cake itself turned out perfect after baking for eighteen minutes. The texture was a little different, but it may be because of the flour I used. The frosting – DIVINE!!! I again used substitutes, and I also added 1/4 cup of cocoa powder because my brother loves chocolate. I mixed it all up, did a taste test, and there was something missing. So I put in about an 1/8 tsp. of cinnamon and that did the trick.
Great recipe overall!
Great recipe overall!
These were ok, my family didn’t care for the frosting.
I LOVE THESE CUP CAKES! made them today for my kids for valentines day.
loved it easy and good!!!!
this recipe was very easy,and i will be doing more as i watch aaron mcCargo every sunday.
I would say the recipe is ok. I may have over cooked the cupcakes. They didn’t look done after 18 min so I cooked them longer. I would say to watch them closely to get them cooked just right so they are not dry.