Cream Soda Cupcakes

Cream soda is probably the best kind of pop out there. It's light, bubbly, and simply my favorite. I don't drink it often but when I do it's definitely a treat. Ever since I started baking I've wanted to combine a cupcake with cream soda. I just needed to figure out how to do it. So I started to break apart recipes I already knew and came up with my own original cupcake recipe. It's light, airy, and absolutely delicious. To start this recipe off preheat your oven to 350 degrees F and line your pan with cupcakes tins.

Like normal, start off by mixing the flour, salt, baking powder, and baking soda together in their own bowl. Then set the bowl aside for later.

In a separate bowl mix the softened butter until creamy.

Next, add the white and brown sugar to the butter. Mix until fully incorporated. Continue mixing until it becomes as creamy as possible. This may take a while and the final product will be slightly thick. After the butter and sugars are mixed together, add the eggs one at a time, mixing for a minute between each addition.

After the eggs are mixed in, add the vanilla and mix until fully incorporated.

After the vanilla has been mixed in, pour in the milk and cream soda. Mix until the milk and cream soda are completely combined.

After the liquid batter is fully mixed together, separate the dry ingredients into three sections. By doing this it prevents clumping as you combine the two bowls of ingredients. Pour the sections of the dry ingredients into the liquid batter one at a time and mix until each section disappears into the batter.

Once everything is mixed together the batter should be thick and somewhat dense.

Spoon the batter into the cupcake tins until about 3/4 full.

Bake at 350 degrees F for 18 minutes. To test if fully cooked insert a toothpick into the middle of a cupcake and it should come out clean.

Once done baking, take out of the oven and let cool in the pan for 5 minutes. Once the 5 minutes is up take them out of the pan and let them cool completely.

The tops will be a beautiful light golden brown color and they smell amazing. While the cupcakes are cooling you can make the frosting.

In a bowl, cream softened butter until smooth. Once the butter is beaten, add the vanilla and cream soda and mix into the butter.

Add one cup of powered sugar at a time, mixing between each addition until the frosting is light and holds structure. You can then put the frosting into a piping bag to decorate your cupcakes, or you can spoon it into the top of the cupcakes.

I used a piping bag on half of the cupcakes...

...and spooned frosting onto the tops of the other half.

Cream Soda Cupcake Recipe

2 cups all-purpose flour

1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder

1/2 teaspoon baking soda

1/2 teaspoon salt

1/2 cup softened unsalted butter

3/4 cup white sugar

1/4 cup light brown sugar

2 large eggs

1 teaspoon vanilla

1/2 cup milk

3/4 cup cream soda

Yields about 18

Cream Soda Vanilla Butter Cream Frosting Recipe

1 cup unsalted butter

1/2 tablespoon vanilla

1/2 tablespoon cream soda

3 cups powdered sugar

Enjoy my original recipe and happy baking!