Honey Cupcakes with Honey Cream Cheese Frosting (recipe below from The Cake Blog). Sure. It sounds like a lot of honey. But can you every really have too much honey? Nope! I didn’t think so!
The cupcakes are fairly dense and chewy. They are slightly oily, but not greasy. They have a very sweet flavor. I’m not sure I would nail it down as honey, if I didn’t know that’s what was in them. But they are sweet like honey, so it all makes sense.
The frosting is soft, but stable, and very creamy. It has a nice, sweet honey-cream cheese flavor. Simple and to the point.
When you put them together, honey is the obvious star of these cupcakes. They are sweet and smooth with a strong honey flavor. Still very simple and to the point. And a nice little something different. Honey is occasionally a player in cupcakes, but rarely the star.
Scoring Sheet:
- Cupcake Taste: 3
- Frosting Taste: 3.5
- Overall Taste: 3.5
- Appearance: 3.5
- Ease of Making: 4.5
- TOTAL: 18
RECIPE
Honey Cupcakes with Honey Cream Cheese Frosting (recipe from The Cake Blog)
Honey Cupcakes:
- 1 stick butter, room temperature
- 3/4 cups sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/2 cup buttermilk
- 1/4 cup honey
- 1 tsp vanilla
Honey Cream Cheese Frosting:
- 1 1/2 sticks unsalted butter, room temperature
- 4 oz cream cheese, softened
- 3 cups confectioners’ sugar
- 3 tbsp honey
- yellow food coloring (optional)
- yellow sugar sprinkles
For directions visit The Cake Blog.
*Tomorrow: Lemon-Raspberry Cupcakes*
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