Sweet Potato Cupcakes with Toasted Marshmallow Frosting

Name: Sweet Potato Cupcakes with Toasted Marshmallow Frosting
Prep time: 1 h 45 min
Cook time: 1 h 45 min
Total time: 1 h 45 min
Yield: 12
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 2 teaspoons baking powder; 1 teaspoons baking soda; 355 milliliters brown sugar; 118 milliliters butter, room temperature; 0 teaspoons cream of tartar; 2 egg whites; 2 eggs, room temperature; 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon; 0 teaspoons ground cloves; 1 teaspoon ground ginger; 1 teaspoons ground nutmeg; 118 milliliters marshmallow creme; 118 milliliters milk, room temperature; 1 pinch salt; 237 milliliters cooked, mashed sweet potatoes; 473 milliliters unbleached all-purpose flour; 1 teaspoon vanilla extract; 3 Tbsps cold water; 79 milliliters white sugar

Sweet Potato Cupcakes with Toasted Marshmallow Frosting requires about 1 hour and 45 minutes from start to finish. One portion of this dish contains about 5g of protein, 9g of fat, and a total of 317 calories. This recipe covers 6% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. This recipe serves 12. If you have vanillan extract, ground cloves, ground cinnamon, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. 126 people found this recipe to be flavorful and satisfying. It is an inexpensive recipe for fans of American food.

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Line 12 muffin cups with cupcake liners.

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Cupcakes

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Muffin Liners

Oven

Beat butter and brown sugar with an electric mixer in a large bowl until light and fluffy.

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Brown Sugar

Butter

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Hand Mixer

Bowl

Add room-temperature eggs one at a time, allowing each egg to blend into the butter mixture before adding the next. Blend in vanilla extract and sweet potatoes.

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Vanilla Extract

Sweet Potato

Butter

Egg

Whisk flour, baking powder, baking soda, 1/2 teaspoon salt, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, and cloves in a bowl.

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Baking Soda

Cinnamon

Clove

Ginger

Nutmeg

All Purpose Flour

Salt

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Whisk

Bowl

Add half the flour to the sweet potato mixture, stirring just until incorporated. Blend in the milk and the remaining flour mixture.

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Sweet Potato

All Purpose Flour

Milk

Scoop batter into prepared cupcake pan and bake in preheated oven until tops spring back when touched lightly with a finger and a toothpick inserted in the center of a cupcake comes out clean, 18 to 22 minutes. Cool on rack.

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Cupcakes

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Muffin Tray

Toothpicks

Oven

To make frosting, combine white sugar, cream of tartar, a pinch of salt, egg whites, and cold water in a heatproof mixing bowl. Set the mixing bowl over a pan of simmering water and beat with an electric mixer until the mixture is very hot to the touch and stiff peaks have formed, 5 to 7 minutes.

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Cream Of Tartar

Granulated Sugar

Egg Whites

Frosting

Water

Salt

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Hand Mixer

Mixing Bowl

Frying Pan

Remove the bowl from the heat and beat 1 minute more.

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Bowl

Add 1 teaspoon vanilla extract and marshmallow creme and beat until combined.

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Marshmallow Cream

Vanilla Extract

To frost the cupcakes, fill a pastry bag fitted with a large plain tip with frosting; pipe mini marshmallow-shaped dots all over the cupcakes. Alternatively, use a knife and frost them generously with lots of swoops and swirls.

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Marshmallows

Cupcakes

Frosting

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Pastry Bag

Knife

Set oven rack about 6 inches from the heat source and preheat the oven's broiler.

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Oven

Arrange 3 or 4 cupcakes on a baking sheet and place them in the oven under the broiler. Toast until the frosting has started to brown, about 90 seconds (check every 20 seconds and rearrange the baking sheet, if necessary). Repeat with the remaining cupcakes until all are toasted.

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Cupcakes

Frosting

Toast