Comments on: Twelve Frosted Cupcakes, Just One Stick of Butter. Promise.

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Tue, 12 Jul 2011 12:14:52 +0000

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By: Mimi

Mimi — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 14:54:50 +0000

Made these last night into about 50 teeny tiny cupcakes, baking them for 17min. at 350 degrees.
If I make them again I’d use less sugar in the cake batter—maybe 1/2 cup instead of 3/4—because the frosting is super sweet (as frosting tends to be) and I like to balance things out. Oh, and thanks to everyone who noted that the cakes rise a lot. I filled the liners about halfway, they came out perfectly.

I also want to note that this is the first buttercream frosting I’ve had any success with! It’s because I don’t have an electric mixer at home and have to whip things up by hand…everything usually turns to a grainy mess…but this recipe worked like a charm.

Overall 4/5. Thanks, Joy! Will try your other recipes for sure.

By: jessie

jessie — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 01:44:03 +0000

This is funny. I needed to make cupcakes in a pinch with what I had on hand, which did not include staples such as buttermilk, or more than I stick of butter. Enter: your delightful cupcake recipe. Next, enter: my stupidity and ignorant dismissal of parts of your recipe. I gave it a cursory glance and thought two things: 1. That is not much flour. 2. That is a lot of leavening. So I whipped it up and thought my third thought, 3. That is not going to be enough batter. I hate having flat little pucks for cupcakes. I’m always after a lovely dome and a beautiful lip over the edge. So I frequently overfill my cupcakes in an effort to achieve this effect and avoid the tiny flat cupcakes. So I properly overfilled them to begin with. I filled 6 cups and then made another batch to fill the remaining 12. That’s more like it. I continued to mix up the frosting, which I altered a bit, and began to smell my cupcakes earlier than expected. At the point of fragrance I took a peek to see quite a monstrous sight: Cupcake batter covering the entire muffin tin, completely disguising it as such, dripping down onto my oven liner, where it promptly burned. But I bet you saw that coming. So when they were done I thought I could try to salvage them by cutting away the excess and disguising it with frosting. That was so not happening. It was just not possible. So I made a tough and some might say, risky decision. I scooped it all out of the liners and dumped it in a bowl, what my family affectionately calls ‘cake guts’, the remains of a failed cake. Then I served it in small individual bowls, topped it with frosting and sprinkles, and put a candle in each one. Luckily it was just a casual gathering with a few friends so I could get away with such antics. It tasted great despite my many efforts to ruin it.
Also, I added another cup of powdered sugar and added half a brick of cream cheese to the frosting. Cause I’m really trying to hasten our family’s diagnosis of pre-diabetes.

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Prepping for the Loch Ness monster « Misteri's Randomness — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 06:59:01 +0000

[...] to MasterChef for pointing me in that direction. I’m going to use a vanilla buttercream (http://www.joythebaker.com/blog/2009/07/twelve-frosted-cupcakes-just-one-stick-of-butter-promise/) rather than cream cheese. I’m sure a devil’s food cake would be absolutely fantastic [...]

By: Neha

Neha — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 06:26:54 +0000

I made 2 dozen of these cupcakes for my brother and his friends and they turned out FABULOUSLY!! Thank you, Joy!!!

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alison tauber » Blog Archive » yum — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 14:06:09 +0000

[...] the frosting I used this recipe from Joy the [...]

By: tara

tara — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 21:14:00 +0000

my four year old had great fun making these, they smell terrific! we added a bit of lemon zest so I hope they come out okay! thanks, favoriting this recipe!

By: A Cupcake Problem « Hoping in God

A Cupcake Problem « Hoping in God — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 16:31:15 +0000

[...] Vanilla Cupcakes with Vanilla Buttercream frosting [...]

By: Joy

Joy — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 01:15:09 +0000

Hi Joy, it’s Joy from Canada.
The cupcakes are in the oven right now and I must say, it smells heavenly already.