I made these a little while ago for a fundraising bake sale at work. This kind of thing is right up my alley: baking cute, individually portioned things that other people get to eat (someone’s gotta save me from eating them all myself!). Cupcakes are usually a pretty big hit at bake sales, and I’ve been wanting to make some for while, so I decided to use my favorite vanilla-flavoured yellow cake batter and then set about looking for a good frosting. I really really dislike tooth-achingly sweet powdered sugar buttercream, and Swiss meringue buttercream can be finicky to make and gets kind of expensive with all those egg whites and copious amounts of butter (plus, what to do with all the leftover egg yolks? Baking is so hard! ;) ).
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