Easy recipe for cupcakes

Cupcakes are delicious and tasty; you probably like eating these tasty cupcakes so here’s a simple and quick recipe for cupcakes in order to make them at home. This perfect recipe for cupcakes will help you make delicious cupcakes yourself. I used to follow this recipe for cupcakes for long and it’s really easy. Let’s start from scratch …

Ingredients of my recipe for cupcakes

You’ll need these following ingredients to make cupcakes:

3 cups of flour
2 cups of sugar
3 tea spoons of baking powder
½ tea spoon of salt
½ cup of shortening
1 ½ cup of milk
1 tea spoon of vanilla
2 eggs
That’s all what you need for this recipe for cupcakes. Now, let’s see this recipe for cupcakes’ directions. It won’t take more than an hour for making the cupcakes.


Heat your oven to 360 degrees before starting cooking.
Line your cupcakes pans with your paper liners.
Add flour and sugar in a bowl.
Mix the flour and sugar in the bowl, adding the baking powder and the salt till all ingredients are mixed well.
Add milk to the bowl.
Add vanilla and shortening to the bowl and mix them all well.
Mix eggs in the same bowl and beat for a minute.
Use a spatula to scrape the side of the bowl.
Beat this mixture on high speed for two minutes till all ingredients are mixed well.
Spoon the cupcake batter into your paper liners till they become 2/3 full.
Put them into the oven for 30 minutes or till the toothpick which is inserted in the center comes out from the cupcakes clean.
Leave cupcakes them in pans for 10 minutes till they chill.
Remove cupcakes them from pans and put them on wire racks so that they completely cool down

Voilà!  Your cupcakes are now ready. As they are now cooled, you can decorate them or make your frosting cupcakes as you desire. For me, I prefer frosting cupcakes; you can read my post about frosting cakes in my previous post.

Happy cooking!