Winterfresh cupcakes with recipe link

The Cupcake Project has done it again: made an amazing cupcake with an ingredient that you've never heard of.

Try these: Winterfresh Cupcakes with Mastic and Lime



These look great don't they??? Winterfresh.. hmm a minty fresh breath comes to mind... commercials selling gum packed with cool, minty flavor that you can see your breath when you exhale....

What the heck is mastic!?! you may be saying. Well, just in true Stef fashion--she explains all about this mystery ingredient:

"Mastic is a resin extracted from the trunk of the mastic tree.  The mastic drips out of the mastic tree trunk as if the tree were crying - so the resin is called mastic tears.  Although mastic starts as a liquid, it hardens to the yellowish crystals. Mastic is the original Winterfresh gum.  Mastic has been used as a breath freshener for thousands of years.  Pop a mastic crystal (or two or three) into your mouth and start chewing.  The mastic will taste bitter for the first few seconds, but then it turns into a refreshing gum with a flavor that most closely resembles the scent of a pine forest on a winter day.  The more you chew, the more the pine experience intensifies.  After thirty minutes of mastic chewing, I felt like I was lost deep in the woods.  The gum hadn't shown any signs of flavor loss." -- from the Cupcake Project


Well there you have it folks. We learned a new word AND a new recipe!!

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