Old-Fashioned Cupcakes

Name: Old-Fashioned Cupcakes
Prep time: 2 h
Cook time: 2 h
Total time: 2 h
Yield: 12
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 9 dashes Angostura bitters; 2 teaspoons baking powder; 355 milliliters cake flour; 1 liters confectioners sugar, sifted through a strainer; 3 larges eggs, broken into a small bowl; 59 milliliters full-fat sour cream; 1 teaspoons orange extract; 59 milliliters freshly squeezed orange juice, from 3 large oranges; 1 teaspoons grated orange zest; 1 teaspoons salt; 2 Tbsps sugar; 12 Tbsps (1 1/2 sticks) unsalted butter, softened; 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract; 59 milliliters whiskey, such as Jack Daniels

The recipe Old-Fashioned Cupcakes could satisfy your American craving in around 2 hours. This recipe serves 12. This recipe covers 4% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. One portion of this dish contains about 4g of protein, 13g of fat, and It works well as a very reasonably priced dessert. Head to the store and pick up salt, baking powder, sugar, and a few other things to make it today.

Instructions

Make the Orange Sawdust: In a small bowl, mix together the sugar and the orange zest.

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Orange Zest

Orange

Sugar

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Bowl

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-size mixing bowl and sift together the cake flour, baking powder, and salt. Set aside.

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Baking Powder

Cake Flour

Salt

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Mixing Bowl

Sieve

In another medium-size mixing bowl, with an electric mixer on medium-high speed, beat the butter and sugar together until light and fluffy, 2 to 3 minutes. Scrape down the sides of the bowl, and add the eggs, beating until combined.

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Butter

Sugar

Egg

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Hand Mixer

Mixing Bowl

Add the flour mixture, orange juice, orange zest, orange extract, and vanilla, beating on low speed just until all the dry ingredients are incorporated.

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Orange Extract

Orange Juice

Orange Zest

Vanilla

All Purpose Flour

Add the sour cream and beat again to incorporate, scraping down the sides of the bowl as needed.

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Sour Cream

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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 Buttercream: In a large-size mixing bowl, with an electric mixer on medium-high speed, beat the butter until light and fluffy. Scrape down the sides of the bowl, reduce the speed to medium, and add half of the confectioners’ sugar, the whiskey, bitters, orange extract, and orange zest, beating to incorporate.

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Orange Extract

Orange Zest

Bitters

Whiskey

Butter

Cream

Sugar

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Hand Mixer

Mixing Bowl

Add the rest of the confectioners’ sugar, beating on medium-high for 2 to 3 minutes until very smooth and creamy, scraping down the sides of the bowl as needed.

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Sugar

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Bowl

Cupcake Construction: Using a wooden skewer, poke about 15 holes in the top of each cupcake and slowly spoon 1 to 2 teaspoons of the whiskey over the top of each cupcake.

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Cupcakes

Whiskey

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Skewers

Let them sit for 10 minutes to allow the whiskey to be absorbed. Now get out that ice cream scoop (2 to 2 1/4 inches in diameter) and top each cupcake with frosting.

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Ice Cream

Frosting

Cupcakes

Whiskey

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Ice Cream Scoop

Sprinkle the tops with 1/4 to 1/2 teaspoon of the orange sawdust, if desired. Cupcakes can be refrigerated for up to 3 days in an airtight container, or frozen for 1 month.

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Cupcakes

Orange