Ingredients
Notes
🧁 Use the creaming method for cupcakes to trap air—stirring like muffins results in flat, dense cakes instead of light, fluffy heights.
🥖 Avoid overmixing muffin batter for tender crumb—excess stirring toughens gluten, turning soft muffins into chewy hockey pucks unlike delicate cupcakes.
🍒 Add sugar and fat liberally to cupcakes for sweetness—scant amounts make them taste like plain muffins, blurring the indulgent dessert boundary.
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cooling Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 22 minutes
- Category: Dessert/Breakfast
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: American
- Diet: Vegetarian
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 cupcake or muffin
- Calories: 200 kcal
- Sugar: 12 g
- Sodium: 150 mg
- Fat: 8 g
- Saturated Fat: 4 g
- Unsaturated Fat: 3 g
- Trans Fat: 0 g
- Carbohydrates: 30 g
- Fiber: 1 g
- Protein: 3 g
- Cholesterol: 40 mg