Heavenly White Chocolate Buttercream Frosted Vanilla Butter Cupcakes
Be prepared to be dazzled! Rich, Vanilla Butter Cake meets decadent White Chocolate Buttercream Frosting! Heavenly!
Servings: 24 Servings
Calories:
Ingredients
Easy Vanilla Butter Cake (or make home-made Vanilla White Cake in Recipe below this one.)
- 1 Box Vanilla Cake mix or Super-Moist Vanilla Cake with Vanilla Buttercream recipe and my Vanilla White Bundt Cakes
- ½ cup unsalted butter, melted & cooled or oil of choice
- 4 egg whites (for extra white) or 3 eggs (use egg whites if you want pure white cake)
- 1 cup buttermilk or milk of choice, can also use water
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
White Chocolate Buttercream Frosting
- 1 cup unsalted butter softened
- 2 & ½ cups powdered sugar
- Pinch salt
- 6 oz very good quality white chocolate chopped
- ¼ cup cream or milk start out with 2 tablespoons and add more as needed to get the consistency you want
- ½ teaspoon Vanilla Extract
Instructions
Vanilla Butter Cake using Boxed Vanilla Cake Mix
- Preheat oven to 350F degrees.
- In large bowl, mix the vanilla cake mix, melted butter, egg whites, vanilla and buttermilk together thoroughly for 1-2 minutes.
- Pour batter into cupcake liners and bake 18-20 minutes.
- Let cool until ready to frost.
White Chocolate Buttercream Frosting
- Heat the white chocolate in 30 second increments in the microwave, stirring after each increment, and continue to heat 30 seconds at a time, until the chocolate is melted and smooth.
- Set aside and allow to cool completely.
- Using a mixer, cream the butter, salt and powdered sugar mixture together until light and fluffy.
- Add the cream and vanilla to the butter/cream mixture using mixer at low speed until well incorporated.
- Pour in the melted white chocolate until blended and then increase speed of mixer and continue beating on medium-high a few minutes.
- Depending on consistency, add more cream or powdered sugar as needed for thinner or thicker frosting.
- Makes about 3 & 1/2 to 4 cups of frosting.
Notes
How to substitute Buttermilk
The simplest way to substitute buttermilk is to pour 1 Tbs. of vinegar or lemon juice into a 1 cup measurer and then fill the rest of the measuring cup with choice of milk. Stir the mixture and let it sit for about 5 minutes.