This is adapted from a Martha Stewart cupcake. I adjusted the flavor a bit and cut the recipe to make 12. This is flavorful just on it’s own, you don’t even need frosting. Wait. Let’s not get crazy.

ingredients:
1-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 stick butter, softened
1-1/8 cups packed light-brown sugar
2 large eggs, room temperature
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
3/8 cups buttermilk

Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Sift flour, baking powder and salt. In the bowl of an electric mixer, cream the butter and brown sugar. Slowly add the eggs, then the vanilla.

Alternate the flour mixture and the buttermilk. Fill each prepped cupcake cup 3/4 full, and bake for 18-20 minutes. Cool on a wire rack.

I put together a little ‘Peeps mise en place’ for the kids to make their own. Now, I adorned these with Peeps in coconut nests for Easter, although they didn’t need it. Just topped with some lovely vanilla buttercream, and this cupcake needs no decoration at all.

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