maple bacon cupcakes
Sweet and salty, these cupcakes don't get much better than this. The addition of luscious buttercream frosting tops it all off!
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yield
12 cupcakes
prep time
20 Min
cook time
18 Min
method
Bake
Ingredients For maple bacon cupcakes
- BATTER
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2 slicecrispy cooked bacon, ground (about 1 tbsp.)
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1 3/4 cunbleached all-purpose flour
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1 tspbaking powder
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1/2 tspbaking soda
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1/4 cunsalted butter, room temperature
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2 Tbspbacon fat
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3/4 cmaple sugar (substitute granulated sugar)
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2 lgfree-run eggs, room temperature
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6 Tbspgood quality maple syrup
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1/3 cbuttermilk
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1 1/2 tsppure maple extract
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1/2 tsppure vanilla extract
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1/2 Tbspgrapeseed oil
- CREAM CHEESE BUTTERCREAM
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4 ozlight cream cheese, softened
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1/4 cunsalted butter, softened
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2 Tbspmaple sugar, sifted
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1 cconfectioners' sugar, sifted
- TOPPING
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3 slicecrispy cooked bacon, crumbled
How To Make maple bacon cupcakes
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1Preheat oven to 350ºF and line a muffin pan with cupcake liners; set aside.
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2In a large bowl, combine flour with baking soda and baking powder; whisk until well mixed. Add the ground bacon, whisk again and set aside.
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3In a bowl of a stand mixer with the paddle attachment, combine butter, bacon grease, and maple sugar; process until mixture gets creamy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well between each addition. Add maple syrup and buttermilk; process until well blended. Add maple extract and vanilla extract; mix for 15 seconds.
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4Add dry ingredients and process on low speed until just combined, stopping to clean the sides of the bowl. Add grapeseed oil and process for 15 seconds.
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5Using an ice cream scoop, divide batter among the muffin cups and fill them up to 2/3. Tap the muffin pan to remove any trapped air bubbles. Transfer to the preheated oven and bake for 18-20 minutes or until a cake tester inserted in the center comes out clean with a few crumbs. Remove from the heat and let them cool off in the pan for 10 minutes. Transfer the cupcakes onto a wire rack to cool completely.
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6To make the buttercream; In a bowl of a stand mixer with the paddle attachment, add cream cheese and butter; process until nice and creamy. Add maple sugar and confectioners’ sugar, both sifted, and process on low before increasing to speed 8. Add the remaining confectioners’ sugar and repeat; low speed at first and increase to 8.
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7Spoon buttercream into a piping bag with large tip and pipe the cupcakes. Add crumbled bacon on top before serving. Makes one dozen
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8To view this recipe on YouTube, click on this link >>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=layfKWVbjjU
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