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Perfect Yellow Cupcake with Fudge Icing
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Perfect Yellow Cupcake with Fudge Icing

A buttery, sweet and fluffy cupcake with fudge frosting. Excellent cupcake or cake base for your favorite frosting. Fudge Frosting inspired by Betty Crocker.
Prep Time30 minutes
Cook Time13 minutes
Total Time43 minutes
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Servings: 48 mini
Author: thesugarpixie

Ingredients

Yellow Cupcake

  • 1½ cups cake or pastry flour
  • 1¼ cups all purpose flour
  • 2½ tsp baking powder
  • ¼ tsp salt
  • 12 tablespoons of Butter melted and cooled
  • 4 tablespoons Oil
  • 2 cups sugar
  • 3 eggs + 1 yolk at room temperature
  • 1 cup evaporated milk undiluted.
  • 4 tsp vanilla extract

Fudge Icing

  • 2 cups sugar
  • 1/2 cup butter 1 stick
  • 3 oz unsweetened baking chocolate
  • 2/3 cup heavy cream
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
  • Bowl of ice and water

Instructions

Vanilla Cake

  • Preheat oven to 325 degrees F.
  • Sift cake flour and measure, sift all-purpose flour and measure.
  • Sift both flours together, with baking powder and salt. Gently whisk, or place in mixer to aerate more.
  • Add sugar to dry ingredients. Mix to combine.
  • Combine melted butter and oil. Mix gently to combine.
  • Add vanilla extract to butter/oil mixture.
  • Mix butter and oil into dry ingredients.
  • Add eggs and yolk one at a time, mixing well after each addition.
  • Slowly add evaporated milk. Mix to combine.
  • Portion into mini-cupcake tins or regular size cupcake tins. Fill to about 3/4 full, or 2/3 for a slightly shorter rise.Tap pans gently to release air bubbles.
  • Bake 13-14 minutes for mini-cupcakes, or 15-20 minutes for regular size cupcakes, or until toothpick comes out with just a few crumbs.
  • Remove pans from oven and let rest for five minutes. Gently turn out cupcakes onto wire rack to cool.

Fudge Frosting

  • In a medium sized pot, mix all ingredients together except vanilla.
  • Heat frosting ingredients to a rolling boil, and stir occasionally.
  • Boil for one minute without stirring.
  • Place pot in bowl of ice and water.
  • Beat frosting until smooth and spreadable. Add vanilla.
  • Frost as desired.
  • *IF icing becomes stiff or gritty, put back on heat for a 30 seconds to a minute and whisk until the gloss just starts to come back.