Pecan Pie Cupcakes
- Ready In:
- 4hrs 30mins
- Ingredients:
- 20
- Yields:
-
24 cupcakes
ingredients
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Butter Cake
- 236.59 ml butter, softened
- 354.88 ml sugar
- 4 large eggs
- 709.77 ml all-purpose soft-wheat flour
- 14.79 ml baking powder
- 4.92 ml salt
- 236.59 ml milk
- 9.85 ml vanilla extract
- paper baking cup
- vegetable oil cooking spray
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Pecan Pie Frosting
- 236.59 ml firmly packed dark brown sugar
- 236.59 ml dark corn syrup
- 118.29 ml cornstarch
- 4 egg yolks
- 236.59 ml whipping cream
- 1.23 ml salt
- 59.16 ml butter
- 4.92 ml vanilla extract
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Toppings
- 236.59 ml toasted pecans
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Piecrust Leaves
- 199.86 g package refrigerated pie crusts
directions
- To prepare Butter Cake, preheat oven to 350 degrees. Beat butter and sugar at medium speed with an electric mixer until creamy. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating until blended after each addition. Combine flour, baking powder, and salt; add to butter mixture alternately with milk, beginning and ending with flour mixture. Beat at low speed until blended after each addition. Stir in vanilla.
- Place paper baking cups in 2 (12-cup) muffin pans, and coat with cooking spray; spoon batter into cups, filling two-thirds full. Bake for 12-15 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pans on wire racks 10 minutes; remove from pans to wire racks, and cool completely.
- To prepare Pecan Pie Frosting, whisk together first 6 ingredients in a heavy saucepan. Bring to a boil over medium heat, whisking constantly. Boil, whisking constantly, 1 minute or until thickened. Remove pan from heat; stir in butter and vanilla, whisking until butter melts. Place a sheet of plastic wrap directly on surface of mixture (to prevent a film from forming); chill about 3 hours or until thick. Makes 4 cups. Frost each cupcake.
- To prepare Piecrust Leaves, unroll piecrust on a flat surface. Using a 1/2-inch cookie cutter, cut out leaves. Bake according to package directions. Makes about 48 leaves.
- Top each cupcake with toasted pecans and 1 piecrust leaf.
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