Recipes
Author Notes: A delicious Christmas time cupcake. —mommiecooks
Serves: 20
- FOR THE CUPCAKES
- 11/2 cup Chestnuts ground up fine
- 1 cup Sugar
- 2 cups Flour
- 2 teaspoons Baking Powder
- 1/4 teaspoon Salt
- 1 Stick of Butter
- 3 Eggs
- 1 14 Oz. Can of Sweetened Condensed Milk
- 1 teaspoon Vanilla
- 1/2 cup Milk
- 1 cup Dried Berries
- FOR THE FROSTING
- 1 Stick of Butter
- 41/2 cup Powdered Sugar
- 1 teaspoon Almond Extract
- 3 tablespoons Milk
- Start out by browning your butter. To brown butter you’ll want to cook it on medium heat until it turns a golden brown color and emits the most amazing nutty delicious smelled you’ve ever inhaled.
- Turn off the heat on your butter and allow it to cool.
- Head over to your mixer bowl and add your dry ingredients; the chestnuts, sugar, flour, baking powder, and salt.
- Add in your wet ingredients; the eggs, condensed milk, vanilla, and milk and mix it together.
- Combine in the cooled brown butter.
- Last up, you’ll fold in your dried fruit.
- Cook up your cupcakes in an oven set to 350 degrees for about 25 minutes.
- For the frosting you’ll cream together the butter, powdered sugar, milk, and almond extract in your mixer.
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