I really love the Magnolia's Bakery recipe for vanilla cupcakes/cake, but the recipe on Food Network that I've been using is a pain in the butt! I mean, how many people have self-rising flour on hand? So, you'd need to look that up and then multiply all the measurements by 3/2 since there's 1.5 cups of it, and THEN, you'd need to figure out what the 9/2 of baking powder convert to if you don't have that lying around.

After having to redo the calculations every time I want to make this recipe, I've decided to make a post where I write down the ingredients in normal-kitchen-English:

2 3/4 cups flour
3/4 tsp salt
~ 1 tsp cream of tartar
~ 1/2 tsp baking soda
(alternatively, you put 2 1/4 tsp baking powder)
1 cup butter (2 sticks)
2 cups sugar
4 room-temperature eggs
1 cup milk
1 tsp vanilla

Preheat the oven to 350 F

Put the dry ingredients together in one bowl and the sugar, butter and eggs in another. First, mix the softened butter with the sugar. Then, add the eggs to that mix. Combine the dry ingredients (flour, salt, cream of tartar and baking soda) in a smaller bowl. Make sure the mixture is uniform. Now, combine the milk and vanilla.

Alternate adding the dry ingredients and the milk/vanilla into wet ingredients and use an electric mixture to make sure you don't have any lumps in the batter. Now, you are done. Either pour into cupcake pan and bake for 20-25 min or bake in a pan for about an hour and 10 mins.

Enjoy!