Boston Cream Cupcakes
posted by joeli under General
Makes 12 cupcakes
Basic Steps:
1) Make 12 yellow cupcakes using your favorite recipe.
2) Make pastry cream and fill cupcakes.
3) Make chocolate frosting and frost cupcakes immediately. Put cupcakes in the frig to let topping harden.
Pastry Cream:
2 tbls + 2 tsps sugar
2 egg yolks
4 tsps flour
2/3 cup milk
1/4 tsp vanilla extract
Method
1) Mix the sugar and egg yolks together until the yellow color fades a bit.
2) Stir in the flour.
3) Heat milk until it just starts to simmer.
4) Slowly stir in about 1/4 of the milk to the sugar/egg/flour mixture. Then add in remaining milk, stirring the whole time.
5) Pour mixture back into pan and heat on low-med unti thickened, again stirring the whole time.
6) Remove from heat and stir in vanilla extract.
7) Cover and let chill.
8) Fill cupcakes with about 1 tbls pastry cream.
Frosting:
100g chocolate
1tbls butter
Method:
1) When cupcakes have been filled and are ready to frost, melt chocolate with butter either on the stove top or in the microwave.
2) Frost cupcakes immediately.
Yellow Cupcakes
posted by joeli under General
Makes 12 cupcakes
Ingredients:
-1 1/2 cups Flour
-1 1/2 tsps Baking powder
-1/4 tsps Salt
-1/2 cup Butter
-3/4 cup Sugar
-2 large Eggs
-1 1/2 tsp Vanilla extract.
-1/2 cup Milk
Method:
1) Preheat the oven to 350F/170C
2) In a small bowl, mix the first three ingredients set aside
3) In a large bowl, cream the butter with the sugar then add eggs one at a time. Stir in vanilla extract.
4) To the large bowl: add the flour mix and the milk, in alternate increments, ending with the flour mix.
5) Spoon into cupcake wells and bake for 18 minutes, or until an inserted toothpick comes out with a few moist crumbs.
