Driller Cupcakes

Name: Driller Cupcakes
Prep time: 2 h
Cook time: 2 h
Total time: 2 h
Yield: 12
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 2 teaspoons baking powder; 79 milliliters firmly packed light brown sugar; 3 larges eggs, broken into a small bowl; 0 teaspoons ground black pepper; 237 milliliters heavy cream; 79 milliliters pure maple syrup; 355 milliliters milk chocolate chips; 1 pinch Pinch salt; 118 milliliters semisweet chocolate chips; 227 grams 10 to 12 slices of regular-cut bacon; 473 milliliters unbleached all-purpose flour; 4 Tbsps (1/2 stick) unsalted butter; 1 teaspoons pure vanilla extract; 79 milliliters whole milk

The recipe Driller Cupcakes could satisfy your American craving in approximately 2 hours. This recipe serves 12. This recipe covers 8% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. One portion of this dish contains about 8g of protein, 28g of fat, and a total of 481 calories. If you have semisweet chocolate chips, firmly brown sugar, ground pepper, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it.

Instructions

Make Butch's Bacon Bits: Preheat the oven to 400°F and adjust the rack in the upper half of the oven. Line a rimmed baking sheet with aluminum foil and place a similar-sized wire cooling rack inside the pan.

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Bacon Bits

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Aluminum Foil

Baking Sheet

Wire Rack

Oven

Frying Pan

In a medium-size mixing bowl, combine the brown sugar and pepper.

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Brown Sugar

Pepper

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Mixing Bowl

Add the bacon strips and toss in the mixture.

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Bacon

Lay the strips in one layer on the rack and top with any leftover sugar.

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Sugar

Bake for 25 to 30 minutes until browned. Cool slightly before finely chopping. This will keep for 1 week stored in an airtight container in the refrigerator.

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Oven

Place a baking rack in the center of the oven and preheat the oven to 350°F. Line two 6-cup jumbo-size muffin pans with liners and set aside.

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Oven

Place a strainer over a medium mixing bowl and sift together the flour, baking powder, and salt. Set aside.

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Baking Powder

All Purpose Flour

Salt

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Mixing Bowl

Sieve

In a medium-size mixing bowl, with an electric mixer on medium-high speed, beat the butter and brown sugar until well combined.

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Brown Sugar

Butter

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Hand Mixer

Mixing Bowl

Add the eggs and vanilla and beat until creamy. Scrape down the sides of the bowl and add half of the flour mixture and the milk, beating to combine.

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Vanilla

All Purpose Flour

Egg

Milk

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Bowl

Add the rest of the flour mixture and the maple syrup, and continue to mix just until the dry ingredients are incorporated, scraping down the sides of the bowl as needed.

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Maple Syrup

All Purpose Flour

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Bowl

Fill each prepared muffin cup with a rounded 1/3 cup batter, about 3/4 full.

Bake, rotating the pans halfway through, until the tops are just firm to the touch and a tester inserted in the center of a cupcake comes out clean, about 24 minutes. Leave the cupcakes in the pan on a rack to cool for 5 to 10 minutes.

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Cupcakes

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Oven

Frying Pan

Transfer the cupcakes to the wire rack to cool completely before frosting, about 1 hour.

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Cupcakes

Frosting

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Wire Rack

Make the Ganache: In heavy 2-quart saucepan over low heat, melt the butter. Stir in the cream and heat until very hot but not boiling.

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Butter

Cream

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Sauce Pan

Remove from the stove and stir in both kinds of chocolate chips until smooth and glossy. Stir in the vanilla and the salt.

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Chocolate Chips

Vanilla

Salt

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Stove

Transfer to a medium-size mixing bowl, and cool to room temperature. Chilling the mixture in the refrigerator will take about 1 hour. Beat the ganache on medium-high speed until thick and creamy, about 2 to 3 minutes.

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Mixing Bowl

Cupcake Construction: Get out that ice cream scoop (2 to 21/4 inches) and top each cupcake with a generous rounded scoop of frosting.

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Ice Cream

Frosting

Cupcakes

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Ice Cream Scoop

Sprinkle 1 rounded teaspoon of the bacon bits on top of each cupcake. Cupcakes can be refrigerated for up to 3 days in an airtight container, or frozen for 1 month.

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Bacon Bits

Cupcakes