Recipe Time!
Butterbeer Cupcakes – Originally by Erica’s Sweet Tooth
For the Cake
- 2 cups flour
- 1-½ tsp baking powder
- ½ tsp baking soda
- ¼ tsp salt
- ½ cup unsalted butter
- ½ cup sugar
- ½ cup dark brown sugar
- 3 large eggs
- 1-½ tsp vanilla
- 1 tsp butter flavoring
- ½ cup buttermilk
- ½ cup cream soda
Instructions:
- Preheat oven tooooooooooooo -> 350 deg.
- In a medium bowl, whisk the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt.
- In a large bowl, cream the butter + sugars together. Add the eggs, mix. Then add the vanilla + butter flavoring.
- In a small bowl, whisk the cream soda and buttermilk together.
- Add the flour to the egg/butter/sugar bowl, in small increments while switching off with the cream soda/buttermilk mix.
- Pop the suckers in the oven for 15-17 minutes.
For the Ganache:
- 11oz bag of butterscotch chips
- ¾ cup heavy cream
Melt these together in a double boiler and let cool. What I did was put the cupcakes in the oven and did this while the cupcakes cooled.
For the Frosting:
- ½ cup unsalted butter, at room temperature
- 1/3 cup butterscotch ganache
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1 tsp butter flavoring
- 1/8 tsp salt (personally, I understand why the salt is there but I really just don’t like salt so next time I’d make this, I’d eliminate this.)
- 1 lb powdered sugar
- Splash of cream (as needed)
Just mix this all together, yo. (I’m so white, I need to stop saying yo.)
Some Continued Instructions:
- So after your cupcakes are cool, roll the tops of them into the ganache, and put them back on your cooling rack (seen here)
- For the frosting, I’d highly suggest piping it on just because the ganache is going to be slippery and trying to just top it off with a frosting spatula will get messier than it needs to be
- Drizzling the rest of the ganache topping on? I used a teeny rubber spatula and just sorta went back and forth. Probably wouldn’t recommend it. Hahahha.
Wanna overdo the sweetness? Yeah I know you do. Try the butterbeer I made a while ago. If you do, buy an extra little bottle of butter flavoring.
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