Cupcakes/ Desserts

Funfetti Cupcakes

Funfetti cupcakes, made from scratch (and no mixer required)!  Funfetti cupcakes, in case you don’t know what they are, are vanilla cupcakes with the addition of sprinkles to the batter.

This is one of my go-to cupcake recipes for birthdays and parties, because really it is just a vanilla cupcake!

Funfetti cupcakes and Coffee Mocha cupcakes.

Funfetti Cupcakes

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Serves: 30 Cooking Time: 20-minutes

Ingredients

  • 1 cup unsalted butter, melted
  • 1-1/2 cups milk, room temperature (I used whole milk)
  • 2 eggs, room temperature
  • 2 cups white granulated sugar
  • 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
  • 1/2 cup vanilla greek yogurt, room temperature
  • 3-1/3 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 1 cup sprinkles

Instructions

1

Preheat oven to 350-degrees. Line three cupcake tins with cupcake liners (I got 30 cupcakes). Set aside.

2

In a large bowl, melt the butter in the microwave. Set aside. In a medium sized bowl, add the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt and nutmeg. After butter has cooled for a minute, add the sugar to the butter and whisk together until mixed. The mixture will be gritty looking, but that's normal. Add the milk to the sugar mixture and mix until incorporated. Add the eggs one a time to the wet ingredients, whisking the egg in completely before adding the second egg. Add the vanilla extract and greek yogurt to the wet ingredients and whisk until incorporated.

3

Slowly add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients, mixing until combined. Add the sprinkles to the batter, and gently fold them in until the sprinkles are well distributed in the batter.

4

Pour batter into cupcake liners, filling the liners two-thirds full of batter. Bake cupcakes one pan at a time in 350-degree oven for 20-minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out without raw batter on it. Remove the cupcakes from the oven and once cupcakes are cool enough to handle, remove the cupcakes from the tin and place cupcakes on a wire rack to finish cooling.

5

Once cupcakes have cooled, frost with buttercream. Click on the link below for the buttercream frosting recipe I used.

Notes

Store frosted cupcakes in an airtight container in the refrigerator (if not serving the same day they are frosted). I made my cupcakes the day before I frosted them, and stored my unfrosted cupcakes in a ziplock bag at room temperature. You can also freeze unfrosted cupcakes for a few weeks. Defrost frozen cupcakes on the counter the night before you are ready to frost them, but crack open the ziplock bag a little, when defrosting frozen cupcakes, to let some of the moisture escape.

Click HERE for the vanilla buttercream frosting recipe I used for these cupcakes!

 

To pipe the “grass” buttercream frosting onto the cupcakes, I added green gel food coloring to my buttercream frosting and used Wilton tip #234 to pipe the frosting to look like grass.

XOXO, Kelly

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5 Comments

  • Reply
    Maria Doss
    February 1, 2017 at 11:22 AM

    Happy birthday to Ethan. Football themed party sounds so fun and you are right, these would be perfect for coming Sunday well. I know these cupcakes would be incredibly moist due to addition of greek yogurt 👍👍 and those buttercream decoration on top….sooooo good!

    • Reply
      Kelly
      February 1, 2017 at 1:14 PM

      Thanks Maria!! They were super yummy! I will tell Ethan you said happy birthday too 🙂 And thanks for always reading the blog and commenting! You are so awesome!! 😉 XOXO

  • Reply
    Amy
    September 21, 2017 at 11:43 AM

    These cupcakes are so cute. I love the footballs on them!

    • Reply
      Kelly
      September 21, 2017 at 6:28 PM

      Thanks Amy! They were a hit at my stepsons birthday party 🙂

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