Vanilla Cupcakes with Swiss Meringue Buttercream

Cupcakes!!! Yum. This cupcake recipe is by Gretchen Price from Woodland Bakery, you can find her on Youtube here or check out her blog. I've been watching Gretchen for ages, back when she was known as "Crumb Boss", but I have never tried any of her recipes... until now!

I think this recipe for the Golden Vanilla Butter Cake recipe is quite unique in how butter and cream cheese are used in the creaming method. It is then followed by 8 eggs, making the cupcake really moist and full of flavour.

This was the first time I ever made Swiss Meringue Buttercream or SMB. It's good if you're looking for something that is fluffy and not too sweet, which my mum loved. But personally I love sweet frostings, so in the future I might add more sugar and slightly less butter since the butter flavour was quite dominate.

Mid-year sales, led me to buy 150 medium-mini cupcake liners. In the above photo I crammed a medium-mini cupcake liner into mini cupcake pans, the edges were just squished together a bit more, which in my opinion looks slightly better than the surrounding large diameter tops.

The recipe for Gretchen's Golden Vanilla Butter Cake is here.
Her famous buttercream is here.