How to Bake Cream Cheese Pound Cake Cupcakes with Royal Icing

Learn to bake delicious cupcakes and top it off with sweet icing!

Do you ever crave sweets and want to bake something that you don't bake very often? I often get a sweet tooth and bake anything that sounds good. It tends to happen more often than I'd like! Read this article and it will teach you to make something very tasteful. This recipe may end up being your top notch bake good.

How Do You Prep to Bake a Cake?

When prepping to bake a cake, have a clean space to work in. Get the correct cake pans that is needed. Also, make sure you have the right ingredients and the right measurements. Not having those things can make a bad and not very tasteful cake. Lastly, make sure to turn on the oven ahead of time to speed up the process so you can put the first batch in right away.

The Ingredients are the Most Important!

When getting your ingredients at the store or you may have them at home, make sure they are the brand the recipe calls for if it specifies. Believe it or not, it does matter! The ingredients this recipe calls for is:

1. 1 1/2 cups butter, softened (notice that it didn't say salted or unsalted)
2. 1 8 oz package cream cheese, softened
3. 3 cups sugar
4. 6 large eggs
5. 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
6. 3 cups all-purpose flour
7. 1/8 teaspoon salt (when adding salt, you normally don't need salted butter)

Before starting to mix the ingredients, make sure the butter, cream cheese, and eggs are all at room temperature. It makes them mix easier and faster.

Clean your space: 

After each use of each ingredient, throw away what needs to be thrown away and put the ingredients back in their place. This can help by saving time after you get done baking to put away the ingredients and to help keep your space you are baking in clean.

What to Mix? When?

When baking a cake, the mixtures you do one at a time and the order you do it in does matter! I never understood this until I really started baking. Have your electric mixer ready. Also, as said before, make sure you pre-heat your oven before you get started. This speeds up things a little faster!

• Beat the softened cream cheese and butter at a medium speed for two minutes or until creamy. When creamy, gradually add the sugar, beating 5 to 7 minutes. Make sure the sugar is good and within the mixture. Add the six eggs one at a time, beating just until the yellow disappears. Add vanilla, mixing well. 

• Combine flour and salt; gradually add to the mixture, beating at low speed just until blended after each addition. Make sure it is the perfect, creamy batter. 

• Place cupcake liners in the cupcake pan. Fill the cupcake liner up a little more than halfway. Bake 35 to 45 minutes. When cupcakes are done, place them on a cooling rack. Repeat until all batter is gone.

Royal Icing

The icing is the perfect addition!

While letting the cupcakes cool and in the same electric mixer, you can now start on the icing. This icing is very sweet and makes a lot, so you may want to half the icing recipe and only ice a few of the cupcakes. If not, make the whole recipe!

The Ingredients:

Decide if you want to half the recipe or make the whole recipe. If halving, half out each ingredient needed.

1. 2 lbs. powdered sugar
2. 5 tablespoons meringue powder
3. 2 teaspoon vanilla
4. 1/2 to 3/4 water

Instructions to Mix the Icing:

• Mix the powdered sugar and meringue powder together.

• With mixer on low, add 1/2 cup water and vanilla to the powdered sugar and meringue powder. Let mix really good.

• Add remaining water until mixture reaches a thick, honey consistency. Turn mixture speed to medium and beat for two to four minutes until thick and fluffy.

After the Icing is Done:

When the cupcakes are cooled, add the delicious, sweet icing to the cupcakes. If interested, you can add food coloring to the icing to make different colored icing. 

I hope the instructions to both of these recipes will help in any and every way to make delicious pound cake cupcakes with sweet, creamy royal icing.