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sparks ([info]sparks) wrote in [info]yumm,
@ 2008-02-16 23:33:00


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Homemade Hostess Cupcakes
I'm not the best baker alive, but I really enjoy experimenting with new recipes. I had the urge to bake today and with the suggestion of my mom I found a recipe for homemade Hostess cupcakes. They're not bad, but given that my pastry bag is at my other house and my mom coudln't find hers, getting the cream in the center of the cupcakes wasn't the easy thing and was kind of messy. But I did my best!

They're really chocolatey and really tastey.












Recipe from foodandwine.com
So this makes 12 cupcakes.

ingredients
CUPCAKES
1/2 cup plus 2 tablespoons cake flour
1/3 cup unsweetened Dutch-process cocoa
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
Pinch of salt
2 large eggs, separated
1/3 cup canola oil
1/2 cup plus 2 tablespoons sugar
2 tablespoons water

FILLING
6 tablespoons unsalted butter, softened
1 1/2 cups confectioners' sugar
3/4 cup Marshmallow Fluff
1 1/2 tablespoons plus 1 teaspoon heavy cream

FROSTING
1/4 cup heavy cream
4 ounces bittersweet chocolate, finely chopped
1 tablespoon unsalted butter, softened

directions
MAKE THE CUPCAKES: Preheat the oven to 350°. Spray a 12-cup nonstick muffin pan with vegetable oil spray. In a medium bowl, sift the flour and cocoa with the baking powder, baking soda and salt. In another bowl, using an electric mixer, beat the egg yolks with the canola oil, 1/2 cup of the sugar and the water. Beat in the dry ingredients at low speed until smooth.

In a clean bowl, using clean beaters, beat the egg whites at high speed until soft peaks form. Add the remaining 2 tablespoons of sugar and beat until stiff and glossy. Beat one-fourth of the whites into the batter, then fold in the remaining whites until no streaks remain. Spoon the batter into the muffin cups, filling them halfway. Bake for 15 minutes, or until the cupcakes are springy when touched. Let the cupcakes cool for 5 minutes, then turn them out onto a wire rack to cool completely.

MAKE THE FILLING: In a medium bowl, beat the butter with the confectioners' sugar, Marshmallow Fluff and 1 1/2 tablespoons of the heavy cream at medium speed until fluffy. Transfer all but 1/2 cup of the filling to a pastry bag fitted with a 1/4-inch plain round tip. Beat the remaining 1 teaspoon of cream into the remaining 1/2 cup of filling and reserve.

Line a large baking sheet with wax paper. Insert the tip of the pastry bag about 1/2 inch deep into the bottom of each cupcake; squeeze lightly to fill with cream. Set the cupcakes on the sheet.

MAKE THE FROSTING: Heat the cream in a small saucepan until steaming. Add the chocolate and let stand for 5 minutes. Add the butter and stir until smooth. Spread the top of each cupcake with the frosting. Spoon the reserved filling into a pastry bag fitted with a very small plain tip and pipe decorative swirls on each cupcake. Refrigerate the cupcakes for at least 10 minutes to set the frosting.

Also, I'm kind of intrigued that [info]bakebakebake on livejournal has monthly baking challenges. Maybe people in this community would be interested in baking/cooking challenges? How they do it is the mod over there makes a theme for the month and people bake things according to that theme and take pictures of it and include the recipes. At the end of the month the community votes on which creation was the best.

Just a suggestion for something this community could do!


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[info]audacity
2008-02-17 07:07 pm UTC (link)
those look delicious, oh my god. :D

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[info]sparks
2008-02-17 07:30 pm UTC (link)
thanks!!

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[info]smoothie
2008-02-18 06:20 am UTC (link)
do you think people would participate? it seems like fun :)

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[info]sparks
2008-02-18 07:16 am UTC (link)
I'm not sure!
Maybe you could make a post and ask people and have all the members respond or something?

I definately know I would, haha.

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[info]natural
2008-02-18 04:10 pm UTC (link)
Those look great! I love Hostess cupcakes; yours look better, though. I'll have to try it. :)

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