Recipe for Boston cream pie cupcake from Martha Stewart's Cupcakes

Another recipe seen yesterday on The Martha Stewart Show by Jennifer Aaronson, Martha Stewart Living Editorial Director (watch it here), was for the Boston cream pie cupcake, as seen below. We've reposted the recipe from marthastewart.com, and you can get 174 other recipes and cupcake tips in June from the book Martha Stewart's Cupcakes.



Boston Cream Cupcake from Martha Stewart's Cupcakes

Bostom cream cupcakes

Ingredients


Makes 18

* 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour, plus more for tins
* 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
* 1/2 teaspoon salt
* 1/2 cup whole milk
* 3 ounces (6 tablespoons) unsalted butter, softened, plus more for tins
* 3 large eggs
* 1 cup sugar
* 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
* Vanilla Cream (see below)
* Chocolate-Ganache Glaze (see below)

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Butter and flour standard muffin tins. Whisk together flour, baking powder, and salt in a small bowl. Warm milk and butter in a saucepan over low heat.
2. Beat eggs and sugar with a mixer on high speed until thick and pale, about 5 minutes. Beat in dry ingredients.
3. Bring milk and butter to a boil. With mixer on low speed, add milk mixture to batter, and beat until smooth. Add vanilla. Divide batter among muffin cups, filling each halfway. Bake cupcakes until light gold, about 15 minutes. Let cool in tins for 10 minutes, then transfer to wire racks. Let cool.
4. Using a serrated knife, cut each in half horizontally. Spread 1 tablespoon vanilla cream on each cupcake bottom. Sandwich with top. Spoon glaze over each, and serve immediately.

Vanilla cream

Ingredients


Makes 1 1/2 cups

* 2 large egg yolks
* 1/4 cup sugar
* 2 tablespoons plus 1/2 teaspoon cornstarch
* Pinch of salt
* 1 cup whole milk
* 1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract

Directions

1. Whisk yolks until smooth. Mix sugar, cornstarch, and salt in a medium saucepan over medium heat. Add milk in a slow, steady stream. Cook, stirring, until mixture begins to bubble and thicken, about 5 minutes.
2. Pour 1/3 of milk mixture into yolks, whisking constantly. Return mixture to saucepan, and cook over medium heat, stirring often, until thick, 2 to 4 minutes. Stir in vanilla.
3. Pass vanilla cream through a fine sieve into a bowl. Press plastic wrap directly on surface. Refrigerate until cold, at least 1 hour, or up to 2 days.

Chocolate-Ganache Glaze

Ingredients


Makes about 1 1/4 cups

* 2/3 cup heavy cream
* 6 ounces semisweet chocolate, finely chopped
* 1 tablespoon light corn syrup

Directions

1. Remove from heat, and add chocolate and corn syrup. Let stand for 5 minutes. Whisk until smooth. Transfer to a bowl, and let cool, stirring often. Use immediately.

Comments

RockerJewlz said…
I was so disappointed with this episode of Martha. I mean, I think we all know how to mix a batch of cupcakes. She surely didn't show us anything exciting.

It was exciting to get a glimpse of all you CTTC gals in the audience, though!

I would have loved to see the latest and greatest cupcake items...not just watch people using a mixer...gosh so much more could have been done with that show!