Old Fashioned Cupcake Recipes

You will find Mom's old fashioned cupcake recipes and frostings so very easy to make. Nothing beats the comforting aroma of homemade cupcakes warm from the oven and cooling on a wire rack.

These vintage cupcakes are definitely a favorite comfort food. Who can resist them when they're thickly iced with homemade frosting? I know I can't. And I always save the frosting for eating last!

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Easy Cupcake Frosting Recipe

Mom's Recipe Scrapbooks (c. 1920s)

Fancy Frosting for Cupcakes

Ingredients: 4 level tablespoons butter, 2 cups icing sugar, 4 tablespoons milk, 1 teaspoon vanilla.

Cream butter thoroughly, gradually add sugar and milk alternately; add vanilla flavoring and beat frosting until quite smooth.

Divide frosting mixture into 3 parts: To 1st part add 2 drops red food coloring to make delicate pink. To 2nd part add a little melted chocolate. Leave 3rd part white.

Spread frosting thickly and evenly on cupcakes and decorate the pink frosting by gently rolling in shredded coconut; roll the chocolate in finely chopped walnuts, placing a red maraschino cherry in center.

Finally, roll the white in chopped pistachio nuts; or use almonds, blanched, delicately browned in oven and rolled fine with rolling pin.

This fancy frosting may be used to compliment any old fashioned cupcake recipe featured on this page.

About Mom's Old Fashioned Cupcake Recipes

It's a personal preference, but I enjoy my cupcakes without icing when I can top them with fresh or preserved fruit. However, they also taste absolutely wonderful when thickly iced with a favorite frosting.

I especially liked Mom's chocolate SURPRISE cupcakes, and her orange flavored ones too, with their fluffy jelly meringue topping. Links to both recipes are given above on this page.

Mom's cupcakes can be beautifully decorated for festive occasions. Be sure to check out the helpful decorating ideas presented in the links above. The decorated flower cupcakes are especially eye catching. Flower cupcakes can be creatively displayed on a cupcake stand as an edible bouquet.

I can recall seeing Mom's cupcakes topped with thick chocolate icing at birthdays, and with colorful frosting and silver sprinkles at family wedding showers. However, you needed to get first in line because they were known to be delicious and quick to disappear!

Whether you're young or young at heart, cupcakes are really special. It's like having a tiny cake all to yourself.