The incredible cupcake thread

[Rachel]

mmmm

I love cupcakes

Today Martha is the cupcake show!

they're featuring:

boston cream pie cupcakes


chocolate cupcakes


"pure" cupcakes


omg there's going to be a Martha's cupcake book!! coming out in June

the current issue of her magazine is all cupcakes too

[Ash]

Love the looks of the boston cream pie cupcake

[Rachel]

my mom would love those

[Rachel]

I got a cupcake book for Christmas, two cookie books, bought myself a cupcake book and I think an additional cookbook

I have so many desserts to make

[LUVBEINGAMOM]

What are the "pure cupcakes"

The boston creme pie ones sure look delish

[Ash]

My cupcakes never come out looking so nice

[Rachel]

Originally Posted by LUVBEINGAMOM

What are the "pure cupcakes"

The boston creme pie ones sure look delish

"pure" cupcakes:

Ingredients
1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, room temperature
2 cups sugar
5 extra-large eggs
3 cups self-rising cake flour
1 cup buttermilk
3 tablespoons Mexican vanilla
Sweet Revenge ''Pure'' Buttercream
Turbinado or demerara sugar, for sprinkling

Directions

Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Cut out twenty-four 5 1/2-by-5 1/2-inch squares of parchment paper. Fit each square of parchment into a standard muffin cup so the edges stick out from the muffin cup; set aside.

In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, beat butter until softened. With the mixer on medium, add eggs and sugar; beat until well combined. With mixer on low speed, add flour in three parts, alternating with buttermilk and beginning and ending with flour. Stir in vanilla.

Fill prepared muffin cups three-quarters full with batter. Transfer muffin tins to oven and bake until a cake tester inserted into the center of a cupcake comes out clean, 20 to 25 minutes. Transfer to a wire rack and let cupcakes cool completely in muffin cups.

When cupcakes are cool, frost the top of each cupcake with a thin layer of buttercream. Fill a disposable pastry bag fitted with a St. Honore No. 20 decorating tip with remaining buttercream. Pipe three waves on the top of each cupcake, each slightly smaller than the next. Sprinkle with turbinado sugar and serve.

[LUVBEINGAMOM]

Takes a bunch of ingredients I wouldn't have on hand...wonder where the name comes from...

[Scorpions_Edge]

somebody make me a boston cream pie cupcake

[Rachel]

your wife bakes - have her make em

[Scorpions_Edge]

I can't get her to make the cookies she promised me last month, like she is going to make me a cupcake

[Rachel]

maybe its time for you to bake something then

[Scorpions_Edge]

I don't bake, I have no desire, don't like it
I'm an entree cooker not a baker

[Rachel]

suit yourself

[Ash]

Did you try to make any Rachel?

I keep looking at the Boston cream But don't want to make it

[Rachel]

nope not yet - I have two cupcake books here with lots of tagged pages. I'm bound to make something eventually - maybe early next week since I'm visiting my parents on Wednesday to pick up boxes and such.

[Ash]

I need to find a coffee cake cupcake recipe

I can't wait to see what you make.

[Rachel]

I like experimenting with stuff like that. you could easily make coffee cake cupcakes by just taking a coffee cake recipe and putting them in cupcake form - that wouldn't be hard at all and mmm very yummy. its very hard for me to resist coffee cake which is strange that its called "coffee cake" except that you maybe eat it in the morning usually with your coffee

[Ash]

Coffee cake is the best

Just found this and it looks yummy too...

Mocha Ice Cream Cupcakes

[Rachel]

that's not a real cupcake