Vanilla Cupcake

A very good, basic vanilla cupcake that uses regular ingredients easily found. Results in a fluffy, light, not-overly-sweet cake with a medium crumb and almost no crust. Does not dome too much but that works well for frosting a cupcake or even stacking a layer cake. Developed at Cupcakes Amore.

8 large eggs
700 g sugar
1 tsp salt
570g flour
4.5 tsp baking powder
1/4 cup vanilla essence
1 3/4 cup water
2 cups oil


Whip the eggs and salt till foamy. Add the sugar gradually and whip till thick, fluffy and lightened in color.
Sift the flour and baking powder together. Add half this mixture to the eggs and whip on low for 1 minute to develop structure.
Stream in the water and vanilla on medium just till incorporated. Stop and scrape the mixer bowl.
Stream in the oil steadily on medium.
Incorporate remaining flour mixture till combined, scrapping bowl as needed.
Portion and bake at 350F.