The Better Vanilla Cupcake

 

I am willing to go out on a limb, and state that I have discovered the perfect vanilla cupcake. This is one of the few times where I can say I have by far surpassed Real Martha because I have baked her vanilla cupcake, and while it tasted pretty good, the texture was more cornbread than cupcake. I found the recipe listed below tucked away in a corner of the internet, and it is just divine. I will warn you that this recipe does call for cake flour, and if you know me at all you know I like my recipes to stick to all the basic things one already has on hand. Also you really need to be careful to only fill the cupcake liners halfway for this recipe because it does rise quite a bit.

Today was marvelous. I decided to take a mental health day from school, and it was well worth the extra day of work I will have to catch up on. Nothing beats baking, reading in the sun, and taking long naps while your friends are suffering through calc class. What can I say? I’m a second semester senior with a crippling case of senioritis.

{My girls: Grace, Brittany, and Mackenzie the birthday girl}