Yellow Butter Cupcakes

Total Time: 50 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 20 mins

Ingredients

• 3 cups cake flour, sifted (not self-rising)
• 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 2 1/4 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 1/2 teaspoons coarse salt
• 3/4 teaspoon baking soda
• 9 ounces unsalted butter, softened
• 2 1/4 cups sugar
• 5 large eggs, room temperature
• 3 large egg yolks, room temperature
• 2 cups buttermilk, room temperature
• 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 350 degrees. line standard muffin tins with paper liners. whisk dry ingredients in a large bowl. cream butter and sugar with a mixer until light and fluffy. add eggs, 1 at a time, beating after each addition.
• 2 reduce speed to low. mix remaining wet ingredients in a bowl. add dry ingredients to butter mixture in 3 additions, alternating with wet ingredients and ending with dry. scrape sides of bowl. divide batter among muffin cups, filling each full.
• 3 bake cupcakes until testers inserted into centers come out clean, about 20 minutes. let cool in tins on wire racks.