Nice Not-Your-Box-Mix Funfetti Cupcakes

Is at that spot anyone that doesn’t honey funfetti cupcakes? Even chocoholics tin appreciate fluffy vanilla cake with bursts of colorful sprinkles. Generally when people need heed funfetti they intend of the bluish Pillsbury boxed cake mix where yous simply add together oil, H2O too eggs. People honey it because 1) it’s tardily too 2) it’s delicious. But every bit a funfetti connoisseur, I simply knew a homemade recipe would knock the box mix’s socks off. And I was right.

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These cupcakes turned out thence fluffy too moist with the perfect hint of vanilla. And of course, the sprinkles within made them all the better.

I lately made this recipe for my co-worker’s babe shower. It was the perfect process to brand because it’s thence colorful too playful, too yous tin alter the color of the classic vanilla buttercream frosting depending on whether you’re celebrating a babe daughter or boy!

NOT-YOUR-BOX-MIX FUNFETTI CUPCAKES

Makes 12 cupcakes

Printable Recipe

INGREDIENTS

For the cupcakes

• For the cupcakes
• 1 too 2/3 loving cup all-purpose flour
• 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 loving cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, melted
• 1 loving cup granulated sugar
• 1 large egg
• 1/4 loving cup yogurt
• 3/4 loving cup milk
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 1/2 loving cup sprinkles

For the vanilla buttercream frosting

• 1 loving cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, softened to room temperature
• 3-4 cups powdered sugar
• 1/4 loving cup heavy cream or half-and-half
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• Salt, to taste

DIRECTIONS

For the cupcakes

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
2. Line muffin tin with 12 cupcake liners. Set aside.
3. In a medium bowl, mix together flour, baking powder, baking soda, too salt. Set aside.
4. In a large microwave-safe bowl, melt butter inwards the microwave.
5. Whisk inwards carbohydrate - mixture volition last gritty. Chill inwards the fridge for 1 minute.
6. Stir inwards egg, yogurt, milk, too vanilla extract until combined.
7. Slowly mix inwards dry out ingredients until no lumps remain. Batter volition last thick.
8. Slowly stir inwards sprinkles, but create non overmix because the sprinkles volition bleed their color.
9. Divide batter with 12 cupcake liners too bake for nearly eighteen minutes or until a toothpick inserted inwards the pump comes out clean. 

For the vanilla buttercream frosting

1. Beat softened butter on medium speed for nearly iii minutes until smoothen too creamy.
2. Add powdered sugar, cream, too vanilla extract.
3. Increase to high speed too shell for iii amount minutes.
4. Add to a greater extent than powdered carbohydrate if frosting is besides sparse or to a greater extent than cream if frosting is besides thick.
5. Add common salt if frosting is besides sweetness (1/4 teaspoon).
6. Frost cooled cupcakes too go past times with sprinkles.
7. Store cupcakes inwards an airtight container at room temperature for upward to iii days too inwards the fridge upward to v days.

The colorful batter; think to non overmix!

Distribute batter evenly betwixt 12 cupcake liners

Baked funfetti cupcakes, pre-buttercream frosting topping.

Funfetti cupcakes frosted with vanilla buttercream too sprinkles

These cupcakes are thence fluffy too colorful

Extreme close-up of the frosting

Another extreme close-up of the frosting, simply because it looks cool!

Vanilla buttercream frosting with a hint of bluish nutrient coloring

The cupcakes inwards their move cupcake carrier

The perfect colors for a babe shower

It was a successful Fox59 babe shower!