Anise/Licorice Cupcakes With Fluffy White Frosting

wtorek, 18 lutego 2014

Anise/Licorice Cupcakes With Fluffy White Frosting

Time: 40 mins

Ingredients

  • 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

Directions

  • 1 Cupcakes: Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Combine the flour, baking powder, and salt and sift on to wax paper, set aside.
  • 2 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.
  • 3 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.
  • 4 Pour into cupcake tins lined with paper cupcake holders. Pour 3/4 of the way. Bake for 20 minutes.
  • 5 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.
  • 6 Cool completely then frost with a white frosting and top with your choice of licorice candy.

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