I ♥ Cupcakes!! Add sprinkles to the mix and you have the perfectly perky dessert. 🙂 Last night I made Vanilla Buttercream Cupcakes. I just couldn’t help myself! The brand new container of sprinkles was calling out to me!! 😉 The base is a delightful Cream Cheese pound cake(sounds way too heavy but it really isn’t!) and the icing a sweet and rich buttercream. Yes, these are definitely sweet and you will need a few cups of coffee to finish one off but definitely fun to make!
Yields: 2 dozen 6oz glass ramekins or mugs
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cups (3 sticks) unsalted butter, room temperature
- 1 bar (8 ounces) cream cheese, room temperature
- 3 cups sugar
- 6 large eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons salt
Directions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. With an electric mixer, beat butter and cream cheese until smooth. Add sugar; beat until light and fluffy, about 5 minutes. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Mix in vanilla. With mixer on low, add flour and salt in two additions, beating until just combined.
- Generously coat 2 dozen glass ramekins or mugs(be sure they are bake-proof!) with butter and dust with flour; immediately pour in batter (usually 2 ice-cream scoopers full).
- Bake until golden and a toothpick inserted in the centers comes out almost clean, 20-25 minutes.
- Cool completely.
- Pipe on icing(recipe bellow) and top immediately with sprinkles!
- Brew a rather large pot of coffee, sit down with a few of your favorite people, and enjoy!! (:
BUTTERCREAM frosting:
- 3/4 cup butter softened
- 1/2 cup heavy cream (milk can be substituted)
- 1TBS vanilla
- 1/2tsp almond extract
- 5-6 cups powder sugar
- Cream together butter, cream, vanilla, and almond extract. Add powder sugar 1 cup at a time until icing reaches the right consistency.
- Pipe onto cooled cupcakes and enjoy!
thebelongingplace
where did you get the adorable ramekins???! they are so sweet 🙂
Rachel
World Market!! 🙂 They work wonderfully for baking in and are a great value. (:
somethingsage
MMmmmmmmmmMMMMmmmmmMMMMmmmmmmmMMMmmmmmmmMMMMMM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
somethingsage
Oops! I think I might have messed up your formatting here. But that’s how good your cupcakes are!!! So appropriate, I won’t even apologize. 😉
Rachel
You can mess up my format with your comments any day! 🙂
Clouds of Colour
Yuuummm i LOVE the idea of a cupcake IN a teacup! Waaah too cute!
Rachel
Thank you!! 🙂
Sarah
Is this the recipe for the ones you surprised us with last year? So yummy!
The ramekins, the sprinkles…just darling!
Rachel
Same icing but different cake! My lemon pound cake recipe without the lemon!! 🙂 Thank you, Sarah!!!!! (: