Vanilla Cupcakes

May 30th, 2007 by caitlyn

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This past weekend I cracked open my copy of More from Magnolia and baked the Vanilla Cupcakes with Vanilla Buttercream Frosting. I had high hopes for the recipe because it’s supposed to be Magnolia’s claim to fame, right? The cupcakes themselves turned out very nicely — moist and light, which is just how I like them. However, I was disappointed with the overly sweet frosting. A half batch of frosting (for a dozen cupcakes) required 1 stick of butter, ¼ cup of milk, 1 teaspoon of vanilla, and 3 cups of confectioners’ sugar. Three!!! Technically, I should have added even more sugar (up to 4 cups) to thicken the frosting — you can probably see from the photos that it still looks a little goopy. Oh well…the very sweet frosting is bearable if I gulp down milk between bites!

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8 Comments

  1. Julia says

    Oh, yum!! Your baking looks yummier and yummier. And I think your food phototaking is getting better too! Your food pictures have been lovely lately. ;D

  2. keri says

    Yum Yum Yum, looks delicious!

  3. Tonia says

    Oh they look so good. I am an icing lover so the sweeter the better. ;) Hope you can find an icing that you might like better.

  4. seedless grape says

    I agree with Julia–you take great food pictures. And GPG thinks so, too!

    I am sorry to hear that the icing was so sweet. Why is it pink? Did you add food coloring?

    The cupcakes look good, though!

  5. kaet says

    sounds like you got the recipe just about right! :) magnolia, and its sister bakery, buttercup are like a second home to me. i find that if you eat more than one cupcake i become nauseous, which is good since it restricts me to just one! and imagine, at the bakeries they pile about a 3-4′ tall mound of frosting on top!

  6. carol says

    i had a very similar experience with the magnolia frosting recently…way too sweet…and i like sweets. but i do love how it looks at the bakery and on the book cover!

  7. Taryn Domingos says

    I’m having a similar cupcake problem. I can’t stand overly sweet frosting and it seems like the cupcake world is flooded with them right now!

  8. joyce says

    wow i really need to catch up on blog reading…
    i made these too awhile ago but i used martha stewart’s cream cheese frosting when i made them the 2nd time - i hate overly sweet frosting.

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