Sunday, 25 2010

kitchy weekends: pink cupcakes

post via gust food blogger Becoming Lola

Yellow Cupcakes with Pink Buttercream Frosting

• Unbleached all-purpose flour, sifted 3 cups or 420g
  
• Baking powder 1 tablespoon + 1 teaspoon or 20g
  
• Kosher salt 3/4 teaspoon
  
• Milk 1 1/4 cups + 3 tablespoons or 340g
  
• Vanilla extract 2 teaspoons
• Unsalted butter, slightly softened 1 1/4 cups + 2 tablespoons or 320g
  
• Sugar 2 3/4 cups + 2 teaspoons or 560g
  
• Eggs 5 large or 260g

1. Preheat the oven to 350ºF. Grease the cake pans. Line the bottoms with rounds of baking parchment then dust them lightly with fl our. Shake out the excess. Or use Baker’s Joy baking spray that contains both oil and flour, so you don’t have to flour the pan. With Baker’s Joy, put the parchment liner in after you spray the pan.
2. In a large bowl, combine the flour, baking powder, and salt and whisk them gently for even distribution. In a separate bowl combine the milk and vanilla.
3. Using an electric mixer with a paddle attachment, cream the butter and sugar on medium speed until it is light and fluffy, 3 to 4 minutes. Add the eggs gradually, mixing well after each addition, scraping the sides and bottom of the bowl often.
4. Lower the mixing speed to medium-low and add the flour mixture to the butter in 3 parts, alternating with 2 parts of the milk mixture, beginning and ending with the flour. Mix just until it is evenly incorporated. This is a thick, fluffy batter, resembling whipped cream. There should not be any lumps or dry pockets of flour remaining. If the batter has a curdled appearance it has not been mixed enough. Increase the speed to medium and mix for another minute or until it is thick and fluffy.
5. Divide the batter equally among baking cups. Place the pans on the center rack in the preheated oven. Bake them for about 20 to 25 minutes, or until the cake is almost ready to pull away from the side of the baking cups and a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out with a few moist crumbs. Be sure to rotate for even baking.
6. Cool the pans on a rack for 10 minutes. I recommend an hour. Frost!

• Confectioner’s sugar 7 1/2 cups or 845g
• Butter 1 1/3 cups or 300g
• Poured fondant 1/3 generous cup or 138g
• Milk 1/4 cup or 62g
• Vanilla extract 1 tablespoon+1/4 teaspoon or 13g
• Salt 1/8 teaspoon
• Baker’s Rose Food Coloring 1-2 drops

In a bowl, beat 600g or 5 1/2 cups of sugar, as well as the butter, fondant, milk, vanilla and salt until creamy, about 2-3 minutes. Start on low speed then increase to medium speed when powdery texture becomes moistened. Gradually add remaining sugar 1 cup at a time. Add color and beat on med-low speed until mixed and still fluffy.