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Happy Birthday Cupcakes

Tara Noland
Happy Birthday Cupcakes will surely put a big smile on anyone's face when they receive these moist vanilla cupcakes topped with buttercream frosting.
4.71 from 17 votes
Prep Time 40 minutes
Cook Time 20 minutes
Total Time 1 hour
Course Dessert
Cuisine American

Ingredients
 

  • ¾ cup butter softened
  • cups sugar
  • 3 eggs
  • 1 Tbsp. vanilla
  • 1 cup sour cream
  • ½ cup milk
  • cups flour
  • 2 tsp. baking powder
  • ½ tsp. baking soda
  • ½ tsp. salt
  • ¼ cup jimmies sprinkles
  • Buttercream Frosting
  • 1 cup butter softened
  • 3 cups icing sugar or confectioner's sugar powdered sugar
  • 4 Tbsp. half and half cream
  • Blue Food Colouring
  • Round sprinkles or jimmies for the top

Instructions
 

  • Preheat oven to 350F. Line 18-24 muffin pans with cupcake liners. Cream butter and sugar together until fluffly. Add the eggs one at a time and then beat in vanilla, sour cream and milk. Mix well. In another bowl whisk the flour, baking powder, soda and salt together. Slowly add the flour into the butter mixture and mix until just incorporated. Fold in the sprinkes. Spoon into cupcake liners 2/3 to 3/4 full. Bake for 18-20 min. until they bounce back to a light touch and are lightly golden. Let cool on wire racks completely.
  • For the icing, cream the butter in a large bowl. Carefully incorporate the icing sugar and the cream and continue to beat until light and fluffy. Add more cream if necessary. Color to the desired blue colour and mix well. Place icing in a piping bag with a tip and decorate as desired. I usually use a star tip 21. You don’t have to be fancy. Sprinkle with additional jimmies or sprinkles. Place cupcakes in a covered container until you are ready to eat. Refrigerate, remove from fridge 30 min. before serving. Enjoy!!
  • Tip: To mound the icing up high like you see, you will want to double the icing. Otherwise they will have a more conservative amount for each.
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