Boston Cream Pie Cupcakes

Apr 25, 2013 in delicious, amy sedaris, baking, boston, boston cream pie cupcakes, buttercream, chocolate cupcakes, chocolate ganache, cooking, pastry cream. Read the original on: Southern Belle's Bakery

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Last week was a horrible week with a lot of tragedy. Â It's hard to know how to feel besides immense grief and confusion. Â But when I'm stressed or not understanding things, I usually decide to bake. Â Please forgive me, but the best I could muster up last Monday were these Boston Cream Pie Cupcakes.

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They are a basic vanilla cupcake, with a vanilla pastry cream filling and a chocolate ganache buttercream frosting. Â

These might be better with my traditional chocolate eclair glaze. Â I'll try these again for a party sometime soon and use my really delicious eclair glaze, compare and make a decision then!

The basic vanilla cupcake is a fabulous recipe from Amy Sedaris, a hilarious author and apparently chef! Â Her recipe instructions are the funniest and most entertaining. Â I read them on Epicurious, but they're originally from her book I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence.

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Amy Sedaris's Vanilla Cupcakes

And, as far as pastry cream goes, it may seem like a pretty difficult thing to do, but if you've got the right recipe and can follow it well enough, it is really quite simple to make. Â Please accept my apologies for teasing you right now, but I will disclose the recipe for my pastry cream sometime soon, I promise! I don't usually work off of recipes with the things I make frequently, I kind of throw things in all at the same time & then after another thing, or whatever...Â But I'll write things down as soon as I make it this next time & there'll be some wonderful production about it!

As far as Chocolate Ganache Buttercream goes, this was a wonderful opportunity to create a great chocolate buttercream that tasted wonderfully & was also as manipulable as is needed to make most designs for frosting, most simply the traditional cupcake topper from buttercream, that grand swirl!

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Ingredients:

1 cup unsalted butter, coldÂ
(optional) exchange 1/4 cup butter for 1/4 cup vegetable shortening
3-4 cups powdered (pure cane) sugar
4 oz. dark chocolate, preferably unsweetened (it may be too sweet of an icing if your chocolate is already sweetened)

How you can make it:Â

Melt dark chocolate over a double broiler, stirring around so it's smooth and not clumpy while melting.
In the bowl of a stand mixer, whip together butter and if preferred vegetable shortening until light, fluffy & all whipped up!!Â
While the mixer is off, put 2 cups of powdered sugar into the bowl and whip slowly together with the whipped butter.Â
Pour the melted chocolate into the stand mixer & whip together.
Once fully incorporated, continue to add powdered sugar about 1/3 cup at a time until you've achieved your desired consistency for icing.
Pipe onto cupcakes with a piping bag or use a spatula/knife to apply the icing however you like!