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Birthday Cupcakes

February 21, 2014

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6 Vanilla Cupcakes perfect for birthday celebrating… 

no need to go bake up LOTS, when you want to keep it simple, 

this is a small batch and so worth making for everyday celebrating.

Birthday Cupcake @createdbydiane

Whoo Hoo,

today is my BIRTHDAY.

Aren’t Birthday’s the BEST! You can tell I like celebrating, right?

But the more opportunities to celebrate mean the more chances of eating desserts,

after all, it’s not a celebration without cake or cupcakes.

This year I decided to make a SMALL batch of cupcakes for my birthday.

@createdbydiane Vanilla Cupcakes with Pink frosting and sprinkles

I really think having a small batch recipe will come in handy like it did today.

I like having 24 cupcakes around, but sadly other parts of me aren’t handling it so well!

This recipe makes between 6 and 8 cupcakes depending oh how full you fill them.

I made 7, looking back two were a bit bigger, I could have made 6 and not scraped the bowl dry, or made 8 normal size to just puff over the liners.

They say the average family is 4 that means the two adults can each have one cupcakes and the kids can have two,

or you can have one for breakfast, one for lunch and then when you sit down to dinner there are 4 cupcakes to celebrate with your family.

If you make 8 well, I’m sure you can figure out something to do with the extras, and maybe your family is a bit bigger and you need another cupcake or two.

My parents are coming over tonight, so there will be 6 of us and well I may need to try one beforehand for quality control!

Simply because there are always SO many sweets on the counters at my house and I don’t need to the temptation of these beauties to last more than the day.

Plus I’m going to lunch and I think there may be cheesecake involved there and well, I have to spread out the celebrating and desserts, because it has in fact happened before that the celebrating lasts more than a couple days.

I have no self-control when it comes to pretty pink icing and sprinkles! So 6 cupcakes will be perfect for tonights celebrating.

Besides if you are celebrating with your family you don’t need 24 cupcakes, even if you’d LIKE to have that many…all things change when you start piling on more candles that go on the cake!

Don’t miss these other small-batch recipes:

  • Small batch chocolate cupcakes
  • Small Batch Biscuits and gravy

Birthday Cupcakes
 
Print
Prep time
5 mins
Cook time
18 mins
Total time
23 mins
 
Small Batch 6 Vanilla Cupcakes, perfect for family birthday celebrating
Author: Diane Schmidt Created by Diane
Recipe type: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Serves: 6 servings
Ingredients
  • 1/2 cup sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 3/4 cup flour
  • 1/4 cup milk
  • 4 tablespoons butter melted
  • 1 tablespoon oil
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
Instructions
  1. In the bowl with a mixer beat sugar and egg until creamy and smooth.
  2. Add in flour milk, butter, oil, baking powder, and vanilla and blend until it's combined without beating.
  3. Fill cupcake liners with 3 tablespoons of batter. (This will fill 8 cupcakes liners with 3 tablespoons of batter each) If you fill the cupcake liners more full, you'll get fewer cupcakes.
  4. Bake at 350 degrees for 15-18 minutes, check with a toothpick until it comes out clean.
  5. Remove cupcake pan from oven and let cool 5 minutes before placing cupcakes onto a cooling rack to completely cool.
  6. I made a batch of Italian Buttercream Frosting Recipe, there is more than enough to frost these cupcakes, I simply place the remaining frosting into a container and place it in the fridge to use later, it easily lasts a month in the fridge, just bring it to room temperature and re-whip it.
  7. I added a drop of egg yellow coloring and three drops of light pink Americolor coloring to a cup of the frosting that I used on these cupcakes and topped them with confetti sprinkles.
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celebrate cupcake with lots of candles @createdbydiane

Now it’s time to CELEBRATE!

Each year we pile on more candles, that just means there is more to celebrate.

 

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17 Comments Filed Under: Cupcakes, Frosting/Icing, Sweet Tagged With: cupcake, Cupcakes, sprinkles, vanilla, vanilla cake

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Comments

  1. Jeanette says

    February 21, 2014 at 10:48 am

    Happy Birthday Diane! Cute cupcakes – pink is always fun!

    Reply
  2. Sue/the view from great island says

    February 21, 2014 at 12:25 pm

    Adorable— and Happy Birthday!

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  3. Becca from It's Yummi! says

    February 21, 2014 at 1:13 pm

    Adorable cupcakes, Diane! HAPPY BIRTHDAY 🙂

    Reply
  4. Sharon says

    February 21, 2014 at 1:14 pm

    Happy Birthday
    Hope you have a day filled with more joy than your heart can hold.

    Reply
  5. Terri C says

    February 21, 2014 at 1:36 pm

    Happy Birthday! Love the smaller recipe. They are so cute too!

    Reply
  6. shawn @ IWYD says

    February 21, 2014 at 2:55 pm

    HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! Love that pink frosting and sprinkles, that’s how I party! 🙂

    Reply
  7. Barbara Mc / Whenihave Time says

    February 21, 2014 at 5:38 pm

    Happy Birthday Diane. Hope you have had a blessed and wonderful day!

    Reply
  8. Barbara @ Barbara Bakes says

    February 22, 2014 at 4:42 am

    A small batch is such a great idea. Happy Birthday!

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  9. Judy says

    February 23, 2014 at 5:34 am

    Happy birthday! Can’t wait to try this recipe!

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  10. alison @ Ingredients, Inc. says

    February 23, 2014 at 5:24 pm

    happy bday! super cute!

    Reply
  11. Brian @ A Thought For Food says

    February 24, 2014 at 5:48 am

    So sorry I missed your birthday on here (just caught you on Facebook… not the same, though… this is my real HAPPY BIRTHDAY message) Hope you had the most wonderful day and that you have a fabulous year, darling!

    Reply
  12. Jocelyn @BruCrew Life says

    February 26, 2014 at 6:33 am

    Happy late Birthday!!! Celebrating with pink frosting and sprinkles is definitely the way to go!

    Reply
  13. Nutmeg Nanny says

    March 5, 2014 at 5:46 pm

    Happy Happy birthday to you, I hope it was wonderful 🙂

    Reply

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