Cappuccino Cupcakes With Cream Cheese Mascarpone Frosting

Submitted by TeksGlutes

"I found this on bakespace.com I'm not sure where I can find coffee extract or vanilla paste. I don't recall ever seeing them at my local market. Hmm..."

 

• Ready In: 50mins
• Ingredients: 13
• Yields: 24 Cupcakes

ingredients

• Cupcakes

• 2 cups flour
• 4 teaspoons baking powder
• 2 teaspoons salt
• 1 1⁄2 cups unsalted butter, softened
• 1 1⁄2 cups brown sugar
• 4 large eggs
• 2 tablespoons coffee extract
• 1 cup half-and-half

• Frosting

• 1⁄2 cup unsalted butter, softened
• 16 ounces mascarpone cheese, softened
• 2 teaspoons vanilla bean paste
• 2 lbs confectioners' sugar
• cinnamon, for garnish

directions

1. Preheat oven to 350ºF.
2. Mix flour, powder, and salt together and set aside.
3. Cream butter and sugar till light and fluffy in mixer.
4. Add eggs, one at a time, mixing well after each addition. Add coffee extract.
5. Alternately add dry ingredients and half and half, beating till smooth.
6. Pour into prepared tins and bake 25 minutes or till tester comes out clean.
7. Cool completely. Frost with cream cheese-mascarpone frosting and dust with cinnamon.

8. Frosting:

9. With an electric mixer, beat the butter and mascarpone cheese together until fluffy.
10. Add the vanilla paste and the sugar incrementally, until fully incorporated.

Reviews

[Zenserotonin]

This is a good recipe. The cakes are a little dry more like coffee cake. I used the scraped inside of one vanilla bean for the vanilla paste in the frosting and two tbsp of brewed espresso for the coffee extract. i liked the frosting even more than the muffins.