Vanilla Cream Cheese Cupcakes with Blackberry Lemon Buttercream
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By: adapted ever so slightly from Serious Eats' coverage of Fruitful
Makes: 36 full-size or 60 mini cupcakes
Ingredients
- 4 cups all-purpose flour
- 4 tsps baking powder
- 1 tsp kosher salt
- 1 8-ounce package cream cheese, at room temperature
- 1 cup unsalted butter, at room temperature
- 2½ cups granulated sugar
- ¼ cup Mexican vanilla extract
- 4 large eggs, at room temperature
- ½ cup avocado oil (or other light cooking oil)
- ½ cup whole milk
- one recipe Blackberry Lemon Buttercream (below)
- fresh berries, for garnish
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350F. Prepare cupcake batter as outlined here.
- Pour batter into lined muffin tins. For full-size muffins, bake 20-25 mins, or until an inserted toothpick comes out clean. For mini muffins, bake for 12-15 mins.
- Let cool completely before frosting with prepared buttercream and garnishing with fresh berries. Enjoy!
Recipe by the pig & quill at https://thepigandquill.com/vanilla-cream-cheese-cupcakes-with-blackberry-lemon-buttercream/