This recipe, adapted from
marthastewart.com, is called Halloween cupcakes. Martha’s cupcakes were frosted with vanilla frosting and decorated with orange and black jelly beans. I scooped out the tops of my cupcakes and spooned in some strawberry jam, replaced the tops, then iced them with
white chocolate cream cheese frosting. A sprinkling of toasted sliced almonds finished them off. Everyone loved them. The cupcakes, though very good, were not as good as my all-time favorite,
Southern Living's vanilla cupcakes. I’ve never found a recipe to top it.
You'll get an even dozen cupcakes, and they freeze beautifully. You can frost these with orange-tinted icing for Halloween, red and green icing for Christmas, or any one of a gazillion ways for whatever holiday or season is at hand.
Jam-Filled Sour Cream Cupcakes
Adapted from marthastewart.com
Rating: 8.5 out of 10
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- INGREDIENTS:
1-1/2 cups unbleached all-purpose flour, lightly spooned and swept
1-1/2 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt
1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, room temperature
3/4 cup sugar
2 large eggs
1-1/2 tsp. vanilla
2/3 cup reduced-fat sour cream
- Heat oven to 350F.
- Line a standard (12-cup) muffin tin with paper liners. In a small bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, and salt; set aside.
- With an electric mixer, beat butter and sugar until light and fluffy, about 5 minutes. Beat in eggs, one at a time, until combined. Beat in vanilla.
- With the mixer on low speed, gradually beat in flour mixture and sour cream in alternating batches, beginning and ending with the flour. Divide batter evenly among prepared muffin cups.
- Bake until a toothpick inserted in the center of a cupcake comes out clean and the top is springy to the touch, 20 to 25 minutes. Cool 10 minutes in the pan, then turn out onto a rack to cool completely before spreading with frosting.
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4 comments:
Nothing makes people smile like a good cupcake. And anything with sour cream in it is a winner in my book though now you've got me tempted to try Southern Living's... What a nice dilemma :)
These sound like a thumbprint cookie version of a cupcake! Love the idea!
PS. You won the chocolate giveaway on my blog... send me your address so I can get your chocolate sent! :)
Sounds like a fabulous cupcake. I really love that you rate the recipes. I always look for that now.
Your pictures show clearly why everyone loved them!
~ingrid
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