12 Frosted (Vanilla) Cupcakes With 4oz of Butter

Vanilla Cupcakes

I refound my love for baking back in September; I didn’t have my shiny D90 so those recipes will just be memories. Soon after I began baking heavily again, I found out that one 9×2″ round cake pan will yield about a dozen cupcakes. This meant that a standard layered cake recipe would give me two dozen, the normal dose for a box cake. But I just couldn’t bring myself to using 1 stick of butter for a dozen cupcakes and then another stick of butter for the frosting. It just seemed like so much butter for such little desserts.

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