The go-to vanilla cupcake
Cupcakes and muffins
Obviously you all loved the go-to chocolate cupcake recipe I posted a few weeks back, and I've gotten numerous requests to do a similar base-recipe for vanilla. Thing is, I don't very often do plain vanilla. When I get sugar cravings, chances are whatever I bake needs to involve chocolate, or my craving will not be satisfied. However, a vanilla cake base is a necessity, and something I've used repeatedly for such creations as the Cookie Dough Cupcakes and Fruit-filled Lemon Cupcakes. My first attempt at making plain-old vanilla cupcakes wasn't the best. I felt the resulting cupcake was just a bit... blah? And bit too dense. So I tried again. And so what if I used almond meal - while some might claim the resulting cake is more of an almond vanilla cupcake than just a vanilla cupcake, I feel the almond meal gives it a unique taste and depth of flavor that one cannot achieve with vanilla alone. And I love almond. So sue me. If you don't want to use the almond meal, substitute regular or
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