Love Purple and Live Gold Cupcakes

Name: Love Purple and Live Gold Cupcakes
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 24
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 1 teaspoons almond extract; 2 teaspoons baking powder; 118 milliliters butter, softened; 237 milliliters butter, softened; 237 milliliters buttermilk; 4 larges eggs; 2 drops electric purple food coloring; 237 milliliters Paper baking; 907 grams packages powdered sugar; 0 teaspoons salt; 1 teaspoons salt; 237 milliliters shortening; 473 milliliters sugar; 24 servings Yellow sanding sugar; 2 teaspoons vanilla bean paste; 2 teaspoons vanilla extract; 651 milliliters all-purpose soft-wheat flour; 118 milliliters whipping cream

Love Purple and Live Gold Cupcakes might be just the dessert you are searching for. One portion of this dish contains roughly 3g of protein, 24g of fat, and a total of 534 calories. This recipe serves 24. This recipe covers 4% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. If you have butter, baking powder, eggs, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. This recipe is typical of American cuisine. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes roughly 45 minutes.

Instructions

Prepare Cupcakes: Preheat oven to 35

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Cupcakes

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Oven

Beat butter and shortening at medium speed with an electric mixer until creamy; gradually add sugar, beating well.

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Shortening

Butter

Sugar

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Hand Mixer

Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating until blended after each addition.

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Egg

Combine flour, baking powder, and salt; add to butter mixture alternately with buttermilk, beginning and ending with flour mixture. Beat at low speed until blended after each addition. Stir in extracts.

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Baking Powder

Buttermilk

Butter

All Purpose Flour

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Place paper baking cups in 2 (12-cup) muffin pans, and coat with cooking spray; spoon batter into cups, filling two-thirds full.

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Cooking Spray

Bake at 350 for 12 to 15 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pans on wire racks 10 minutes; remove from pans to wire racks, and cool completely (about 45 minutes).

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Oven

Prepare Frosting: Beat first 4 ingredients at medium speed with an electric mixer until creamy. Gradually add powdered sugar, beating at low speed until blended. Beat at high speed 2 minutes or until creamy.

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Powdered Sugar

Frosting

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Remove and reserve 11/2 cups frosting for cupcake filling. Stir food coloring into remaining frosting until blended.

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Food Color

Frosting

Cupcakes

Insert the end of a wooden spoon or dowel into the center of each cupcake to make a hole. Spoon 11/2 cups reserved frosting into a zip-top plastic freezer bag. Snip 1 corner of bag to make a small hole. Pipe a generous amount of frosting into each cupcake.

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Frosting

Cupcakes

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Wooden Spoon

Spoon purple frosting into a zip-top plastic freezer bag. Snip 1 corner of bag to make a hole. Pipe frosting on cupcakes; sprinkle with yellow sanding sugar.

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Sanding Sugar