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Nutrition Facts

Serving Size 1 cupcakes 74g

Recipe makes 24 cupcakes)

Calories 247
Calories from Fat 63 (25%)
Amount Per Serving %DV
Total Fat 7.1g 10%
Saturated Fat 4.3g 21%
Monounsaturated Fat 1.9g
Polyunsaturated Fat 0.4g
Trans Fat 0.0g
Cholesterol 35mg 11%
Sodium 100mg 4%
Potassium 45mg 1%
Total Carbohydrate 44.3g 14%
Dietary Fiber 0.4g 1%
Sugars 33.2g
Protein 2.4g 4%

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Amy Sedaris' Vanilla Cupcakes

Recipe #181181 | 40 min | 20 min prep | add private note

By: bernrome
Aug 9, 2006

Obviously this is not my own recipe. Amy Sedaris, so I hear, sells her cupcakes in New York City bakeries. I found this on the web. This was my first time making cupcakes from scratch and I have to say, I was quite proud of the results. I gave them away to friends and family, and everyone loved them.

24 cupcakes (change servings and units)

Ingredients

Directions

  1. 1
    Preheat oven to 375°F.
  2. 2
    In a large bowl, cream together butter and sugar. Add in the eggs, two teaspoons vanilla, salt and baking powder. Add flour and milk in batches, starting and ending with flour. Stir until batter is smooth and satiny.
  3. 3
    Fill paper-lined muffin tins with batter. Bake at 375° for 18- 20 minutes.
  4. 4
    For frosting, whip together the box of confectioners' sugar, half-and-half, and one teaspoon vanilla until smooth and fluffy.
  5. 5
    Allow cupcakes to cool about 45 minutes and frost.
  6. 6
    *HINT* I added about one extra teaspoon of vanilla to the batter.
  7. 7
    This recipe didn't specify, but I used all-purpose flour.
  8. 8
    To the frosting, I added a bit more half-and-half to reach a thinner consistency.

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From: LaurelAnn

On Oct 12, 2009

Pretty good cupcakes. The texture is quite dense - at least that's how my cupcakes turned out. Almost a cross between cake and brownies. I prefer my cupcakes lighter, but my family loved these. I used Kittencal's Chocolate Buttercream Frosting/Icing, which was excellent.

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  • From: Minyatur

    On Oct 3, 2009

    Wow, these are good! Most of the vanilla cupcake has a play dough taste to me (i don't know why... maybe i didn't put enough vanilla extract), but this one did not. I used two tsp of vanilla extract and two tsp of vanilla bean paste. I made 24 regular size that baked for 18 minutes, also tried mini cupcake size that baked for about 10 minutes (about 55 of them). I cut down the sugar to about 1-1/3 cup of sugar and it was perfect for us. The first time i accidentally used baking soda, instead of baking powder (big mistake). I gave up the recipes for a while, but decided to try it again. I am very glad that i did. I used the vanilla icing from King Arthur's website on these cupcakes. Thank you Bernrome! This is my to go vanilla cupcake recipes

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  • From: SPrins

    On Aug 15, 2008

    WOW! WOW!! WOW!!! I chose to make these cupcakes, but not the icing. Instead I used the Vanilla Buttercream Frosting #222188 (which is awesome!!). YUM!! I COULDN'T stop myself from eating several at a time! I made them to take to a friend of mine, and kept 6 at home for us . . . and ate most of them! :O) Thanks so much for sharing!

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  • From: Shannon W.

    On Oct 20, 2007

    I really enjoyed these! My boyfriend and I are huge fans of the beautiful and intelligent Amy Sedaris (and her family too!) so this was something we knew we'd love. Make sure that you use good quality vanilla extract as opposed to vanilla flavoring as it really makes a huge difference in the finished product. I'm glad that I opted for the expensive stuff. The cake part of these cupcakes is AMAZING and turned out perfectly. I think that this is the best recipe I have ever tried for the cake part of a cupcake. I wouldn't change a thing in this regard! My only gripe with this recipe is that the icing is a bit too sweet - all I tasted was powdered sugar, despite doubling the amount of vanilla and adding more half and half. I will save this recipe and make it many times in the future, but I will experiment a bit more with the icing as I think these would be best with a big gob of rich vanilla buttercream icing instead. Thanks for posting!

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