Ingredients
- 1 vanilla cupcake, recipe follows
- 2 to for 4 tablespoons White Fluff Frosting, recipe follows
- Pink and yellow sanding sugar
- 5 pink candied Jordan almonds
- 1 red jujube
- 1 piece green fruit-by-the-foot
Directions
Frost the cupcake. Top with pink sanding sugar. Place Jordan almonds on top in a flower petal pattern. Press a jujube candy in the center of the flower. Cut the fruit-by-the- foot to make the flower stem, press onto the cake.
Vanilla Cupcakes:
- 2 2/3 cups sugar
- 1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, cut into 1-inch pieces
- 2 large eggs
- 2 large egg yolks
- 2/3 cup milk
- 2/3 cup water
- 2 1/2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
- 2 2/3 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 1/3 cups cake flour
- 4 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon fine salt
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Line two 12-cup cupcake tins with paper liners. (To avoid cupcakes sticking if they overflow slightly, lightly spray the tops of the pans.) Put tins on a baking sheet. Set aside.
Process sugar and butter in a food processor until very creamy, scraping sides as needed, 1 to 2 minutes. Add the eggs and yolks, one at a time, pulsing after each addition. Add the milk, water, and vanilla and process to blend.
Whisk both flours, baking powder, and salt in a medium bowl. Add the dry ingredients, in 3 batches to the wet, pulsing, and then scraping batter off the sides of the processor as needed after each addition. Process until the batter is very smooth and pourable like pancake batter, about 2 minutes.
Evenly pour the batter into the prepared cups, filling them 3/4 of the way full. Bake until the cakes are just firm and spring back when gently pressed, and the tops are golden, 18 to 25 minutes. Cool slightly in tin, and turn out of tin when cool enough to handle. Cool cupcakes completely on a rack before frosting.
Yield: 24 cupcakes
Prep Time: 20 minutes
Cook Time: 25 minutes
Inactive Prep Time: 30 minutes
Ease of preparation: easy
Fluff Frosting:
- 1/4 cup whole milk
- 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
- 10 tablespoons unsalted butter, softened
- 5 cups confectioners' sugar
- 1/2 cup marshmallow fluff
- Pinch fine salt
Whisk the milk and vanilla extract together in a small bowl.
Slowly beat the butter and sugar, in another medium bowl, with an electric mixer until incorporated. Raise the speed to high and mix until light and fluffy, about 5 to 7 minutes. (Occasionally turn the mixer off, and scrape the sides of the bowl down with a rubber spatula.) Add the fluff and salt and reduce the speed to low. Add the milk and vanilla mixture, scrape the bowl down, and mix until fully incorporated. Raise the mixer to high and beat briefly until fluffy, about 1 to 2 minutes. Frost cupcake immediately.
Yield: 3 3/4 cups
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By foodismydrug
on December 13, 2011
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I made these last Easter and they turned out BEAUTIFULLY. The vanilla cupcake recipe was very easy and very good. The decorations turned out so pretty. I read the reviews, and I used Starburst jelly beans instead of the Jordan almonds, and I bought the tropical pack of Twizzlers and cut up the green licorice for the stems. The kids loved the candy toppings.
By melindawegener
Gilbert, AZ
on August 28, 2011
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These were delicious and full of vanilla flavor. I made these for Easter and used a jellybean in the middle instead of a jujubee and skipped the fruit by the foot stem. The icing was a little too sweet. They were easy to decorate but time consuming. I would make these again.
By kochei_11130179
lake grove, NY
on April 05, 2010
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very good and easy!!!
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