French vanilla cupcakes with rose meringue?

so, for my friends birthday im baking her cupcakes, she loovves french vanilla cakes, so i looked up some recipes, i found this recipe, and it looked interesting (link http://www.vanillagarlic.com/2007/08/french-vanilla-cupcakes-with-rose.html ) but, i read the comments, and all of them are like "sounds good" there wernet any from people that actually made it, so i was wondering, if anyones tried it, if they would give me and opinon and tips on how to make it better, or if theres any better french vanilla cupcake recipes