Anise/Licorice Cupcakes With Fluffy White Frosting
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- Ready In:
- 40mins
- Ingredients:
- 16
- Yields:
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18-24 cupcakes
- Serves:
- 18
ingredients
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Cupcakes
- 2 cups cake flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1⁄4 teaspoon salt
- 1⁄2 cup unsalted butter, Room temperature
- 1 1⁄2 cups sugar (Try Flavored Sugar or Splenda using the anise)
- 1 cup milk
- 3 egg whites, 1/2 cup
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Garnish
- licorice (or Good and Plenty, soft, chewy drops, nonpareil jellies and soft panned licorice balls)
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Fluffy White Frosting
- 2 egg whites, 1/3 cup
- 1 1⁄2 cups sugar
- 1⁄2 teaspoon cream of tartar
- 1⁄8 teaspoon salt
- 1⁄3 cup water
- 2 teaspoons light corn syrup
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1⁄2 teaspoon anise extract
directions
- Cupcakes: Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Combine the flour, baking powder, and salt and sift on to wax paper, set aside.
- Beat butter and sugar in a mixing bowl till smooth and well blended. Stir in extract and milk add to butter mixture alternating with the flour mixture.
- In a clean blow beat egg whites till stiff but still moist. Fold in gently 1/3 of the white into the batter, continue to fold in the remainder of the whites.
- Pour into cupcake tins lined with paper cupcake holders. Pour 3/4 of the way. Bake for 20 minutes.
- Meanwhile prepare Fluffy White Frosting: Combine all ingredients except vanilla and anise in the top of a double boiler over boiling water. Beat with electric mixer for about 7 minutes, or until mixture will stand in stiff peaks. Beat in vanilla and anise extract.
- Cool completely then frost with a white frosting and top with your choice of licorice candy.
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Rita1652
Jamesburg, New Jersey