{"id":675,"date":"2006-02-13T21:13:36","date_gmt":"2006-02-13T21:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/wordpress\/?p=675"},"modified":"2006-02-13T21:13:36","modified_gmt":"2006-02-13T21:13:36","slug":"the-best-cupcakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/?p=675","title":{"rendered":"the best cupcakes"},"content":{"rendered":"

I may have blogged about these cupcakes before, but if so, I still think they warrant a second post, since they are so tasty (and also because I have nothing else to blog about. Ha). They are yellow cupcakes with a chocolate ganache frosting and appeared in Cook’s Illustrated<\/a> a couple years back.
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\"cooks<\/a><\/center>They are pretty easy to whip up, so you do have time to make them for Valentine’s Day dessert if you wish.
\nRead on for the recipe …<\/p>\n


\nYellow Cupcakes with Chocolate Frosting – from Baking Illustrated
\nmakes 12
\nChocolate frosting:
\n1 cup heavy cream
\n8 ounces semisweet chocolate, chopped up into little bits
\nCupcakes:
\n1 1\/2 cups unbleached all-purpose flour
\n1 cup sugar
\n1 1\/2 tsp baking powder
\n1\/2 tsp salt
\n1 stick unsalted butter, softened (if you forget to take the butter out to soften like I did, a good trick is to cut the butter into small pieces and let them sit about 15 minutes)
\n1\/2 cup sour cream
\n1 large egg plus 2 egg yolks, at room temp
\n1 1\/2 tsp vanilla extract
\nMAKE THE FROSTING FIRST:
\nPut the chopped chocolate in a medium bowl. Heat the cream to a simmer in a small pan. Pour the cream over the chopped chocolate then cover the bowl with foil. Let stand for 5 minutes then whisk until smooth. Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate about 45 minutes to an hour until it’s cool and a little firm. The time it takes to make the cupcakes is just about the right amount of time for the chocolate to firm up.
\nTransfer the chocolate mixture to the bowl of a standing mixer (I’m sure you can just use a hand mixer, too). Whip with the whisk attachment on medium speed for about 2 minutes, or until the frosting is fluffy and has the consistency of mousse. Don’t overbeat or it will curdle. Set aside.
\nTHE CUPCAKES:
\n1. Heat the oven to 350F. Line a muffin tin with liners. The foil ones are great.
\n2. Whisk together the dry ingredients, i.e., flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt, in the bowl of a standing mixer. Add the butter, sour cream, egg, yolks, and vanilla and beat about 30 seconds on medium speed. You want the batter to be smooth and satiny. Use a rubber spatula to scrape down the sides and stir a bit to make sure the batter is well blended.
\n3. Drop the batter into the liners. You can use an ice cream scoop. Bake about 20-24 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean. Remove the cupcakes from the tin right away and allow to cool on a wire rack. I use chopsticks to get the cupcakes out, but a knife works well, too. Allow the cupcakes to cool to room temp, about 45 minutes.
\n4. Frost the babies and serve. They taste best the day they are made!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I may have blogged about these cupcakes before, but if so, I still think they warrant a second post, since they are so tasty (and also because I have nothing else to blog about. Ha). They are yellow cupcakes with … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}