Recipe - Chocolate Buttermilk Cupcakes With Boiled Icing

CUPCAKE BATTER
1 One half cup All purpose flour
1 One half teaspoon Baking powder
One fourth teaspoon Salt
6 tablespoon Soft unsalted butter
1 cup Sugar
2 Squares unsweetened
chocolate, melted and
cooled
2 lg Eggs
One half cup Buttermilk or milk
1 teaspoon Vanilla extract

BOILED ICING
3 lg Egg whites
1 cup Sugar
1/3 cup Light corn syrup
Chocolate shavings for
garnish

Two 12cavity muffin pans with nine cavities in each lined with paper
muffin liners.

Set a rack in the middle level of the oven and preheat it to 350 degrees.

In a small bowl, stir together the flour, baking powder and salt. Beat the
butter and sugar together with an electric mixer set at medium speed.
Continue beating until light, about 5 minutes. Beat in the chocolate and
continue beating until smooth. Scrape bowl and beaters and beat in the
eggs. Continue beating until creamy and smooth, another minute or two. By
hand, with a rubber spatula, stir in half the flour mixture, making sure to
scrape the sides of the bowl well. Stir in the milk and vanilla, then the
remaining flour mixture. Divide the batter evenly among the 18 lined
cavities in the pans, filling them about Three fourths full. Bake the cupcakes about
20 minutes, until well risen and firm to the touch, or until a toothpick or
knife inserted in the center of one of the cupcakes emerges clean. Cool the
cupcakes in the pan briefly, then lift them from the pan to a rack to cool
completely.

For the icing, combine all ingredients in the bowl of an electric mixer and
place over a pan of simmering water. Whisk gently until egg whites are hot
and sugar is dissolved. Place on mixer with whip and beat until cooled and
risen in volume.

To finish the cupcakes, spread a spoonful of the frosting on each, swirling
it with a small spatula

or back of a soup spoon. top the icing with a pinch of shaved chocolate.

Yield: 18 standard cupcakes

Recipe by: Cooking Live Show #CL8963

Posted to MCRecipe Digest V1 #801 by "Angele and Jon Freeman"
jfreeman@netusa1.net on Sep 24, 1997