Pistachio and Cardamom Cupcakes

Name: Pistachio and Cardamom Cupcakes
Prep time: 1 h 40 min
Cook time: 1 h 40 min
Total time: 1 h 40 min
Yield: 24
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 1 teaspoon almond extract; 1 Tbsp baking powder; 296 milliliters buttermilk; 227 grams cream cheese; 237 milliliters pitted chopped dates; 5 larges eggs; 710 milliliters all-purpose flour; 1 teaspoon ground cardamom; 2 Tbsps ground cardamom; 237 milliliters honey; 5 Tbsps pistachio instant pudding; 2 Tbsps orange extract; 59 milliliters fresh orange juice; 1 orange, zested; 2 grams dram pistachio flavored oil; 59 milliliters toasted pistachios, seasoned with salt and pepper, for garnish; 118 milliliters chopped salted pistachios; 907 grams powdered sugar; 1 teaspoon salt; 118 milliliters sour cream; 473 milliliters sugar; 454 grams unsalted butter; 113 grams (1 stick) unsalted butter; 1 Tbsp vanilla extract; 79 milliliters vegetable oil

Pistachio and Cardamom Cupcakes might be just the American recipe you are searching for. This recipe serves 24. One portion of this dish contains approximately 5g of protein, 30g of fat, and Head to the store and pick up pistachios, butter, buttermilk, and a few other things to make it today. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes approximately 1 hour and 40 minutes.

Instructions

For the cupcakes: Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F. Line a cupcake pan with 24 regular cupcake liners.

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Cupcakes

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Muffin Liners

Muffin Tray

Oven

ift the flour, instant pistachio pudding, baking powder and cardamom into a bowl.

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Baking Powder

Pistachio Nuts

Cardamom

All Purpose Flour

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Bowl

Combine the buttermilk, sour cream and oil into another bowl and set aside. In the bowl of an electric stand mixer with the paddle attachment, cream the sugar and butter until the mixture is lighter in color and fluffy, about 7 minutes.

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Buttermilk

Sour Cream

Butter

Cream

Sugar

Cooking Oil

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Stand Mixer

Bowl

Add the vanilla, almond and pistachio flavors.

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Pistachio Nuts

Vanilla

Almonds

Add one egg at a time, scraping down the sides of the bowl after each addition. Turn the mixer to the lower speed, add the flour mixture and the buttermilk mixture, alternating between the two, beginning and ending with the flour. Lastly, fold in by hand, the salted chopped pistachios.

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Buttermilk

Pistachio Nuts

All Purpose Flour

Egg

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Blender

Bowl

Fill the prepared cupcake liners half full with batter and bake until golden and baked though, 25 minutes. Cool the cupcakes completely.

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Cupcakes

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Muffin Liners

Oven

For the date and honey filling: In a heavy-bottomed saucepan, combine the dates, honey, 1/4 cup water and cardamom together and cook until over medium-low heat until the mixtures becomes thicker, 10 to 15 minutes.

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Cardamom

Dates

Honey

Water

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Sauce Pan

Transfer the mixture to a dish and cool.

For the orange cream cheese frosting: Whip the butter and cream cheese in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with a paddle attachment at medium-high speed until the mixture is light and fluffy, about 5 minutes.

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Cream Cheese Frosting

Cream Cheese

Butter

Orange

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Hand Mixer

Bowl

Add the juice, orange extract, vanilla extract, salt and zest and beat until fully incorporated. Then lower the speed and add the powdered sugar incrementally and beat for 3 more minutes.

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Vanilla Extract

Orange Extract

Powdered Sugar

Juice

Salt

Put the frosting into a pastry bag and cut 1/2 inch off the tip.

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Frosting

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Pastry Bag

To assemble: Using an apple corer, remove a piece of the cupcake from the center. Fill the cupcake with 1 teaspoon of the date and honey filling. Using a large round tip #809, pipe the orange cream cheese frosting and garnish with the toasted pistachios

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Cream Cheese Frosting

Pistachio Nuts

Cupcakes

Orange

Apple