Small Batch Funfetti Cupcakes

These funfetti cupcakes are moist, and delicious vanilla cupcakes, loaded with sprinkles and topped with a buttercream icing. The recipe makes just a small batch, 4 cupcakes for when you need something sweet, without a lot of extra. The cupcakes are soft, moist, and sweet. Topped with the sweet buttercream frosting, these cupcakes are so fun, and so yummy! And who doesn’t need some sprinkles in their life? This recipe makes just 4 funfetti cupcakes, with frosting for each. It’s the perfect amount when you’re craving something sweet, but don’t want to be left with close to a dozen extra cupcakes. This way you have the perfect amount for you and a couple friends, or you and one friend if you both want to enjoy two cupcakes 😉 Another great small batch dessert would be this Bento Cake! After making our chocolate cupcakes for two, I knew I also needed a small batch vanilla cupcake recipe. I adapted this recipe from How Sweet It Is, to make 4 cupcakes and of course to add sprinkles, because sprinkles make everything more fun, right?!

Ingredients needed to make Funfetti Cupcakes:

• granulated sugar
• butter
• egg white
• milk
• vanilla extract
• all purpose flour
• baking powder
• salt
• jimmie sprinkles

Ingredients Needed to make Buttercream Frosting:

• powdered sugar
• butter
• heavy cream
• vanilla extract
• sprinkles

How to make a small batch of Funfetti Cupcakes?

1. Stir together your butter and sugar in a medium sized bowl. Add in the egg white, milk, and vanilla extract and stir it until combined into the butter mixture.
2. Then add in the flour, baking powder, salt and sprinkles, and stir it together until you have a nice soft batter.
3. Scoop the batter evenly into 4 cupcake liners.
4. Bake the cupcakes until a toothpick comes out clean. Let the cupcakes cool completely.
5. Add the butter, powdered sugar, cream, and vanilla together and beat them for a couple minutes until nice and fluffy. Then fold in the sprinkles.
6. Pipe the frosting evenly onto the cupcakes. Sprinkle additional cupcakes over the top.

Tips for making Small Batch Funfetti Cupcakes:

• Use Jimmie style sprinkles for the cupcakes and the frosting. Non pareil (the little balls) will bleed in them both and can turn the batter and frosting funky colors. But you can add a variety of sprinkle types on top of your frosting to make the cupcakes extra cute.
• You can also completely leave the sprinkles out of the cupcake batter and frosting if you just want plain (but delicious, soft, moist) vanilla cupcakes.
• Add a couple drops of food coloring to the buttercream to make it whatever color you love, to make these extra fun.
• If you want your cupcakes slightly taller, split your batter between 3 cupcake liners instead of 4.

How to store Funfetti Cupcakes?

While I’m assuming you wont have any cupcakes leftover, if you do they can be stored in an airtight container at room temperature for 3 to 4 days. Then you can enjoy one cupcake a day for a few days, if you’re not sharing 😉 This small batch funfetti cupcake recipe is the perfect thing for when you need a cupcake, without a whole batch. The cupcakes can be ready in less than an hour, and are so fun, cute, and delicious.

More cupcake recipes:

• Chocolate Cupcakes for Two
• Yellow Cupcakes with Chocolate Frosting
• Kitchen Sink Cupcakes

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These small batch funfetti cupcakes were first posted on March 10, 2014. The photos and text were updated for clarity on February 11, 2022.