let's make assorted cupcakes using one base recipe this is perfect for Mother's Day bake sales graduations or parties instead of making five different cupcake batters I'm going to show you today how to make one simple base cupcake recipe and quickly transform it into five different flavors the possibilities are endless and there's minimal cleanup you loved my assorted cookie box my bagel box so let's make a cupcake box without the Box we're going to start out by making the base a vanilla cupcake batter which is different to your standard cupcake batter but also very similar as
it starts out by creaming the butter the sugar and vanilla extract once we've made this batter I'm then going to show you how to take this batter and make completely different flavored cupcakes just by adding additional ingredients to the same recipe I've mixed in three large eggs and we're going to add the flour baking powder baking soda and salt we're also going to add the milk and lemon juice which will react with the baking soda are giving the cupcakes a beautiful rise and a beautiful soft texture the batter may seem a big hurdled and that's
okay it's due to the lemon juice it will not affect the outcome of your cupcakes if not in a great way scrape the bottom and sides of your bowl and your vanilla cupcake batter is done can you guess which cupcakes we're going to make first vanilla wrong we're going to make lemon cupcakes first and there's a reason for that we want to minimize the cleanup so we're not going to divide the batter into five different bowls instead we're going to assemble the first three flavors directly in the cupcake Pan the reason we're making the lemon
cupcakes first is to avoid spreading lemon oil all over the other cupcakes if you've ever zested lemons you know lemon oil shoots out in all different directions and if there were cupcakes and the pan chances are they would probably end up tasting like lemon cupcakes clean up the zest stir the lemon zest into your cupcakes and this batch is done put the favor liners back into the pan and let's make two other flavors the second flavor we're going to make is vanilla so I'm not going to add anything to this one and the third flavor
is going to be cookies and cream now what you can do is crush up some Oreos and stir those directly into your liners or I personally like to use mini Oreos I love biting into cookies and cream cupcakes and you know tasting actual huge pieces of Oreos but you could do smaller pieces you could do fine crumbs whatever you prefer now the last two cupcakes we're going to make are chocolate and red velvet cupcakes you didn't think we were going to make assorted cupcakes and not have chocolate or red velvet did you now this is
where we will be using a second bowl you're going to divide the batter in half and to one half we're going to add cocoa powder the ingredient amounts by the way and the printable recipe step by step will be on my website Emma fontenada.com and if you're new to my my channel hello there welcome make sure to subscribe I post new videos every week we're also going to add milk cocoa powder absorbs liquids so we do want to put some moisture back into the recipe for the red velvet cupcakes to the second bowl we're going
to add cocoa powder and red food coloring the original base recipe already contains buttermilk fake buttermilk I should say as it's milk and lemon juice so besides the food coloring and the cocoa powder we don't need to add anything else bake the cupcakes at 320 degrees Fahrenheit or 160 Celsius for about 22 to 25 minutes as always do the toothpick test every oven is different if there's no wet crumbs the cupcakes are ready what I love about this recipe is that it's also educational this is a perfect example of what happens when you over mix
your batter you can see the first three cupcakes are nice and flat but the chocolate and the red velvet cupcakes have more of a domed crack top they're just as soft and delicious as the flat ones a lot of people think if you over mix cake batter you develop gluten but it's actually quite difficult to develop gluten in cake since there's so much fat content in cakes if you think about bread making it takes a good six to eight minutes to actually start to develop some gluten anyway regardless you do not want to over mix
cake batters not for gluten issues but for many many other issues allow these to go completely and we're going to make the frosting I'm going to make a cream cheese frosting as I feel it pairs really nicely with the lemon cupcakes the red velvet cupcakes and the cookies and cream cupcakes but you can make whatever frosting you like to make my cream cheese frosting you want to start by mixing the room temperature butter we want to cream this for about a minute to get rid of any lumps the trick to making stiff pipeable cream cheese
frosting is to use very cold cream cheese and super soft butter I developed this method years ago and all of you who've tried it really love it in another bowl with the cream cheese with the powdered sugar and vanilla for about 30 seconds we want to maintain the cream cheese as cold as possible so do not whip this for more than 30 seconds you'll see the cream cheese will go from stiff to almost runny that's the powdered sugar drawing out the water from the cream cheese after 30 seconds very quickly add the butter all at
once and mix as quickly as you can the mixture will thicken within seconds and you'll have the most creamy but stiff cream cheese frosting it's like magic or to science the cream cheese will go from loose to stiff and pipeable now this is obviously vanilla cream cheese frosting you can diet you can flavor it with cocoa powder if you wish I'm going to divide mine between two other bowls this is optional by the way I just love pink cream cheese frosting for red velvet cake so I'm going to dye this batch pink I'm also going
to add some cocoa powder to another bowl with cream cheese to make chocolate cream cheese frosting for my chocolate cupcakes again the measurements and the full detailed instructions will be on my website or you can just get the recipe in the description box below it's such an easy time saving recipe to make many different flavored cupcakes there's so many possibilities you can customize these however you wish I did scale these down to make 12 cupcakes but feel free to double or triple this recipe if you're having let's say a bake sale put these in a
box bring these to a party to a barbecue bring these to work if you're celebrating a birthday or retirement they're soft delicious and a true crowd Placer everyone will think you've gone mad making so many different cupcake batters but you and I know how easy these were to make if you'd like more customizable recipes like this one wear from one recipe you make many different flavors check out my cookie box my bagel box or even my brownie box I'll leave the links to those videos in the description box below
