This recipe for White Wedding Cake Cupcakes is one of the most popular recipes on RecipeGirl.com. These are seriously simple to make – you’ll be shocked! But they turn out the best cupcakes. They’re so good!
Watch the video showing you how to make White Wedding Cake Cupcakes, then scroll to the very bottom of this post to print out the complete recipe so you can make these at home.
What supplies do you need to make Wedding Cupcakes?
If you’re looking for the right supplies to make these cupcakes, here are my suggestions (these are affiliate links to Amazon):
- 12-cup muffin pan
- My suggestion for the cupcake liners is to visit a local baking supply shop where you live. They should carry a good, white liner that won’t have the cupcake turning out greasy.
- Edible sugar pearls
- large plastic disposable pastry bags for piping the frosting
- For icing the cupcakes, I recommend trying either the Wilton Open Star 1M tip or the Wilton Closed Star 2D. Both of these you can usually find at craft or baking supply stores. Or just order a whole decorator tip kit and try out different ones!
- These disposable cupcake boxes are great… because you can bake and decorate your cupcakes, then store them in the boxes and refrigerate them overnight!
This White Wedding Cake Cupcakes recipe has been featured in a post on The Recipe Girl blog, with more photographs and information on the decorator tips that were used and which icing recipe is best (Wedding Cupcake Buttercream) and How to Make Wedding Cupcakes.
Go there for all of the answers to your questions about details on what tips were used for the frosting etc.
I’m not usually one to use a boxed cake mix and doctor it up. I’m much more accustomed to using entirely homemade recipes.
But these turn out delicious, moist and fluffy cupcakes- perfect for holding buttercream frosting. It’s crazy, but it’s true!
Tips for baking the best White Wedding Cake Cupcakes:
As you can see from the photo, the cupcakes lay pretty flat on top and don’t rise into a mound like some cupcakes. This is a good thing, actually.
You want those cupcakes to have a flat layer so there is a nice, flat base for piping frosting on top.
Don’t fret if the tops of the cupcakes appear to be slightly moist. That’s okay! Just cover them with your buttercream frosting, and all will be fine.
For best results, look for white cupcake papers from a real baking supply store. They’ll have the best products, and that is where I buy the papers that I use.
This recipe has been pinned more than one million times by RecipeGirl readers, and the recipe has been made by thousands and thousands of people.
I receive so many happy emails from brides who chose to use this recipe for their wedding. It’s that good!
Can you bake a cake with the White Wedding Cake Cupcakes Recipe?
Yes! This recipe can also be used to make wedding cake. I made cupcakes for the wedding- plus a mini cake for the bride and groom to take home and keep.
I used the same Wedding Cupcake Buttercream for the cake too. It pipes beautifully! See the links below for the Wedding Cake and Wedding Cupcake Buttercream links!
I’ve made larger cakes by doubling the recipe, and I’ve made mini cakes– as pictured.
If you have additional questions, it might be helpful to read through the comments below the recipe– you might find the answers you are looking for 🙂
As with using any recipe for an important occasion, my best advice is to test this recipe out and see how you like it before you make it for the big day. Frost the cupcakes and everything!
Then you’ll know if this recipe is for you.
Here are a few links that may be helpful to you:
- How to Make Wedding Cupcakes (a post showing you how I made them for a wedding)
- Wedding Cupcake Buttercream (the best frosting recipe for these cupcakes)
- Chocolate Wedding Cupcakes
- White Wedding Cake
White Wedding Cake Cupcakes
Ingredients
- One 15.25-ounce box white cake mix
- 1 cup all purpose flour
- 1 cup granulated white sugar
- 3/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 1/3 cups water
- 2 tablespoons vegetable or canola oil
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 cup sour cream
- 4 large egg whites
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 325°F. Place cupcake liners in cupcake pans (you'll need approx. 36).
- In a large bowl, whisk together cake mix, flour, sugar and salt. Add remaining ingredients and beat with hand mixer for 2 minutes, or until well blended.
- Use an ice cream scoop to fill prepared cupcake tins- fill about 3/4 full. Bake about 18 minutes, or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
Notes
TIPS:
- Recommend: Most companies have downsized the size of their cake mix from 18.25 to smaller. Some readers have made this recipe as indicated using the smaller size mix and still had great success. Others bought a 2nd mix and added in the missing ounces to the first box. It's up to you on what you want to try. I've had success with making this recipe as-is with the new, smaller cake mixes. Reading through some of the comments on the post may help...
- You can use either regular or light sour cream for this recipe, but heck... since it's a wedding cupcake and you want it to be as delicious and moist as possible, I recommend going for the full-fat kind.
- Add 1 teaspoon of almond extract (in addition to the vanilla) if you wish to have a different flavor.
- Using a spring ice cream scoop is perfect for getting the batter into the cupcake tins without spilling.
- You can also use this mix to make cake. Pour into greased and floured cake pans. Bake until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
I have two words for you…Grand Slam!!!!
I just made these. They are wonderful. I LOVE white cake with vanilla buttercream. These are great without the icing. I know I will be making them again. BTW I got exactly 36 cupcakes, rose perfectly and didn’t fall when they cooled. Thanks for a wonderful recipe.
If you use whole eggs instead of just the whites, would you still add the sour cream?
yes, you still need the sour cream.
Thanks for the recipe! I made these tonight for a family party, and they were a hit. I added two extra tablespoons of vegetable oil to make sure they were moist. I was a bit nervous when I tried the batter because it tasted pretty artificial, but once the cupcakes were done and iced, they tasted great. They were a little artificial and “cake mixy,” but they still tasted great. I am a big fan of cream cheese frosting so I used this instead of your buttercream recipe. They turned out great. Thanks again!
Just made these cupcakes for a Baby Shower, they were a hit !
Thanks for posting this! With all of the downsizing in cake mixes, I was looking for a way to still produce 24 nice sized cupcakes… and improve the taste. I’m trying this tonight 🙂
These are the absolute best cupcakes ever! Made them for my daughters birthday and everyone loved them! I used a cream cheese icing to fill them and top them. Delicious!
I should add that the cupcake baking was a family effort! I certainly did not do it alone. We also baked a batch of strawberry cupcakes for our son’s office this week. They were a hit, as well. The first batch of wedding cupcakes went to church last Sunday, and then we started in on the “thank you” cupcakes.
Lori~Thank you so much for helping us celebrate our company’s one year anniversary on Valentine’s Day. We have a family-run real estate company, and we baked over 250 cupcakes which we then delivered to area real estate companies this week to thank them for being a part of our real estate community. The cupcakes, baked with your wedding cake recipe and frosting, were a hit everywhere. It is the first time I had ever tried to do anything on this scale, but your directions were RIGHT ON and gave me confidence.
I want to add one important thing to the discussion points, though. The cupcakes made using Duncan Hines were far superior to a batch we made using a generic cake mix. I will stick to Duncan Hines for sure, because there was a distinct difference in taste and in texture–and the cake mix was the only variation.
Thanks again!
When people talk about wedding cake flavored cake, I think almond flavored, but I see this has vanilla extract in it.
You can certainly put whatever flavoring you’d like in it!