Vanilla cupcakes are the most popular cupcakes in the world!
Vanilla cupcakes have a soft crumb on the inside, with a hint of vanilla flavor.
Vanilla cupcakes go well with several different flavors of frosting, including using fruit puree or sparkling wine to flavor your frosting.
Vanilla Buttercream Frosting
Vanilla buttercream frosting is a classic icing for vanilla cupcakes.
Vanilla buttercream is rich and creamy, with an aromatic flavor of vanilla.
It’s a stiff icing, therefore it pipes well on top of of cupcakes for those beautiful rose icing designs.
Vanilla buttercream is made with heavy cream instead of milk to thin it out, therefore it has more of a buttery, velvety flavor.
You can easily color vanilla buttercream frosting using gel food coloring, or liquid food coloring for your themed cupcakes.
Cream Cheese Frosting
Cream cheese frosting is one of the favorite flavors of frosting vanilla cupcakes.
It’s not as sweet as buttercream, and has the memorable cream cheese and vanilla flavor.
Cream cheese frosting needs to have the right consistency to be piped into shapes using a piping tip. Therefore I recommend using this recipe for cupcakes.
It’s a thick icing and it pipes well on top of cupcakes. You can also color it using gel food coloring or liquid food coloring.
Strawberry Buttercream
Strawberry buttercream is one of the most fruity frostings you’ll ever eat!!
To make strawberry buttercream you have to first make strawberry puree. It smells as good as it sounds.
The puree is added to a buttercream base, and it produces a vibrant pink frosting for cupcakes.
Strawberry buttercream has a bit of unique look to it, it has tiny pieces of strawberry mixed throughout the icing.
I recommend using the buttercream within 1-2 days, as the flavor fades over time.
White Chocolate Buttercream
White chocolate buttercream is made by adding melted vanilla chocolate to a buttercream base.
White chocolate is a fairly sweet chocolate, but added to buttercream makes it a delicious and creamy frosting that isn’t too sweet.
White chocolate buttercream is a beautiful crisp white frosting for cupcakes, but you can color if desired using gel food coloring.
Coffee Buttercream Frosting
Coffee buttercream frosting is an incredible flavored icing that goes well with vanilla cupcakes.
It’s one of my favorite frostings because it’s FULL of coffee flavor.
It tastes like you’re eating a latte, giving you a little pick-me-up.
Coffee buttercream icing is made by adding instant coffee (I recommend using freshly brewed espresso) to a buttercream icing base.
Coffee buttercream frosting has a hazel color to the frosting, making it look eye catching against the vanilla cupcakes.
Champagne Buttercream Frosting
Champagne buttercream frosting has a lovely hint of bubbly flavor.
Champagne buttercream frosting can be made using a sweet sparkling wine infused into a vanilla buttercream frosting.
Champagne buttercream frosting is perfect for a wedding shower, NYE party, or birthday party celebration.
Chai Spiced Frosting
Chai spiced frosting has the flavor of a chai latte.
Chai spiced frosting is made by infusing chai spice into a vanilla buttercream frosting.
Chai spiced frosting has a birch color to it, and it goes well with vanilla cupcakes.
It’s a unique tea flavored frosting that your guests will love!
