Baby Ruth Cupcakes

Submitted by moonpoodle

"This recipe is great because it includes candy pieces in the cupcakes as well as on the icing. You will need two 10 packs of fun-sized candy bars to make these cupcakes, 12 for the cupcakes, and 8 for the icing."

 

• Ready In: 35mins
• Ingredients: 8
• Serves: 18

ingredients

• Cupcakes

• 1 cup unsalted butter, softened
• 1 cup sugar
• 2 cups self-rising flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 12 (14 g) baby ruth candy bars, chopped

• Icing

• 3 cups powdered sugar
• 1 cup unsalted butter, softened
• 8 (14 g) baby ruth candy bars, chopped

directions

1. Preheat the oven to 350°F
2. Line a cupcake tin with paper baking cups.
3. Chop all of the Baby Ruth Bars. Set aside half for the cupcake batter and half for the icing.
4. Combine all of the ingredients for the cupcakes, except the candy pieces, into a large bowl and beat until pale. Slowly mix in the candy chunks by hand.
5. Spoon batter into the baking cups and bake for 20 minutes, or until done. Check with a toothpick.
6. While the cupcakes cool, you can assemble your icing. Beat the powdered sugar and butter until icing is formed. Spread on the cooled cupcakes, and top the cupcakes off by sprinkling the remaining candy pieces on top.

Reviews

[Chef Jean]

Sorry moonpoodle, this recipe just doesn't seem to work. I followed exactly with not very eatible results. The batter was pretty much dough, I had to stir the candy in with my hands. I went with it anyway placing a scoop in each baking cup and while it was baking I thought it was going to work, but as soon as I took them out of the oven the centers sunk right in. I ened up with what tasted like shortbread with really chewy caramel in the center. After they cooled they became hard as rocks and I had to toss them. I'm not sure if there is something missing from the recipe, but these did not turn out anything like the picture indicates.

 

[Lynne the Pirate Queen]

Ok, I'm going to start by saying that the reason this recipe just did NOT turn out may be that I didn't give it the benefit of the doubt. I followed the directions exactly, but the batter that resulted had the thickness and consistency of cookie dough, not traditional cupcake batter. I truly did not see a way that it could possibly work, since it was such a thick batter and didn't look like it would even "accept" the candy pieces. Assuming that an ingredient had been inadvertently left out of the published recipe, I ended up adding some milk, which appeared to solve the problem. However, the cupcakes took far longer to bake than the stated 20 minutes. When they finally appeared "done," they were all sunken in and had a too-delicate texture. Maybe the milk was not missing after all (or maybe an egg should have been added instead?), and I had made the batter just too thin. I don't know. These are also WAY, WAY too sweet. I, my fiance and our roommate all found them to be far too sugary -- and I had even omitted adding the frosting and topping! My fiance, who is a very good cook in his own right, was of the opinion that there was also too much butter flavor to the cake part. So... regardless of what I may or may not have done wrong -- or if there are any missing ingredients -- if I were to make these cupcakes again I would easily cut the sugar in half. The candies add more than enough sweetness on their own. What I *do* know is that this recipe took a long while to make, given the time needed to chop a lot of very sticky candy bars. Between the time factor and the expense -- butter and the candy not exactly being low-cost ingredients -- I will not be making these again unless and until some other cook can tell me what I did wrong.