It’s MY Birthday: Health(ier) Vanilla Cupcakes
I don’t know if you knew this, but people. love. cupcakes. Adult people, little people, probably even animals. So I wasn’t shocked when my youngest requested cupcakes for his birthday treat. There are times you go the healthy route (90% of the time), and then there are times you use the butter. This is one of those times. Regardless, these are made healthier than your average store-bought cupcake with quality ingredients like grass-fed butter and subs like coconut sugar and homemade cashew milk. They’re also gluten-free, so they work well for celiacs and people who can’t do gluten. But they’re still moist and completely freaking delicious. Score.
Servings
12cupcakes
Cook Time
20minutes
Servings
12cupcakes
Cook Time
20minutes
Ingredients
Instructions
  1. Preheat your oven to 375 degrees.
  2. Then break out the mixer and toss the butter + coconut sugar in there. Beat it up until it’s niiiiiiice and fluffy. Add in your egg and beat it more (heehee, that made me giggle), then beat in the vanilla.
  3. In a separate medium mixing bowl, whisk together the flour + salt + baking powder. Add half of it to the mixer, beat it until it’s mixed in, add half the milk, beat a little more, add the rest of the flour, more beating, then finally, the rest of the milk, beating until the batter is fluffy and all incorporated.
  4. Spoon the batter into a muffin tin lined with muffin liners, and bake for 18-20 minutes. These won’t be as puffy as your average cupcake, but who really gives?? A flatter surface means a better landing pad for frosting anyway.
  5. Annnnnnnnd speaking of frosting, while those cuppycakes cool, make the frosting. Stick the butter + powdered sugar + vanilla-bean paste in the bowl of the mixer and beat away until it’s all nice and creamy. Add a splash or two of cashew milk, just to bring it to the consistency you prefer, then add salt a pinch at a time, beating between each addition, until you get it juuuuuuuust right.
  6. When the cupcakes are completely cooled (I repeat, completely cooled), frost those suckers. I prefer a nearly 1:1 ratio of frosting to cake, but you do you. Top with rainbow sprinks and bask in the glow of adoration.