The sky's the limit as to what you can add to yellow cupcakes to enhance them! Try adding chocolate chips or your favorite nuts. Make it your way with the variation below.
Yellow Cupcakes
- Prep Time 15 min
- Total 1 hr 15 min
- Servings 24
- Ingredients 8
Ingredients
- 2 1/3 cups Gold Medal™ all-purpose flour
- 2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup butter or margarine, softened
- 1 1/4 cups sugar
- 3 eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 2/3 cup milk

Make With
Gold Medal Flour
Instructions
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Step1Heat oven to 350°F. Place paper baking cup in each of 24 regular-size muffin cups, grease bottoms and sides of muffin cups with shortening and lightly flour, or spray with baking spray with flour.
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Step2In medium bowl, mix flour, baking powder and salt; set aside.
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Step3In large bowl, beat butter with electric mixer on medium speed 30 seconds. Gradually add sugar, about 1/4 cup at a time, beating well after each addition and scraping bowl occasionally. Beat 2 minutes longer. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in vanilla. On low speed, alternately add flour mixture, about one-third at a time, and milk, about half at a time, beating just until blended.
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Step4Divide batter evenly among muffin cups, filling each with about 3 tablespoons batter or until about two-thirds full.
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Step5Bake 20 to 25 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool 5 minutes. Remove cupcakes from pans; place on cooling racks. Cool completely, about 30 minutes. Frost with desired frosting.
Nutrition
170
Calories
9g
Total Fat
2g
Protein
20g
Total Carbohydrate
11g
Sugars
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size: 1 Cupcake
- Calories
- 170
- Calories from Fat
- 80
- Total Fat
- 9g
- 13%
- Saturated Fat
- 5g
- 26%
- Trans Fat
- 0g
- Cholesterol
- 45mg
- 16%
- Sodium
- 190mg
- 8%
- Potassium
- 35mg
- 1%
- Total Carbohydrate
- 20g
- 7%
- Dietary Fiber
- 0g
- 0%
- Sugars
- 11g
- Protein
- 2g
% Daily Value*:
- Vitamin A
- 6%
- 6%
- Vitamin C
- 0%
- 0%
- Calcium
- 4%
- 4%
- Iron
- 4%
- 4%
Exchanges:
1 Starch; 0 Fruit; 1/2 Other Carbohydrate; 0 Skim Milk; 0 Low-Fat Milk; 0 Milk; 0 Vegetable; 0 Very Lean Meat; 0 Lean Meat; 0 High-Fat Meat; 1 1/2 Fat;Carbohydrate Choice
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