Graduation Cupcakes!

Graduation is just around the corner, and for some, it is right on your doorstep!  What better to celebrate then to bake an easy, fun, and festive batch of cupcakes!  And guess what???  Simplicity is back for spring so don’t break your back making extravagant cupcakes-unless you want to! 

 

This is a very simple recipe that requires almost no talent in the baking field.  That means no experience is needed!  So get ready, get set, BAKE!

 

Makes 20-25 cupcakes

 

Ingredients:

 

• 2 cups flour
• ½ teaspoon salt
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• ½ cup butter, softened (leave out at room temperature)
• ¾ cups sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 cup milk
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract (optional)

 

1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F and line muffin cups with muffin papers (make the muffin papers their school colors!) 
2. Put butter and sugar in mixer and beat until light and fluffy (if you don’t own a mixer, beat by hand-it is harder).  Beat in eggs one at a time.
3. Mix flour, baking powder and salt in a separate bowl and add it into the original bowl (flour, sugar + egg bowl) alternating with milk.  Beat well and add Vanilla 
4. Fill up cupcake pans ½-2/3 full and pop into the oven for 20 minutes. 
5. Let the cupcakes cool in the pans then decorate with the frosting of your choice!

Have fun baking these…it might relieve a little stress from finals!