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Thursday, July 31, 2008

Chocolate Cupcake? Vanilla Cupcake? Can't decide!? Do BOTH!

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Black and White Cupcakes with Banana Filling aka Banana Split Cupcakes

Yup, thats what last week’s Whacky cupcake flavor, but I couldn’t post it until now because I was waiting for a box to get to NY. You see, its my sister Jenn's birthday soon (you can go to her blog and wish her a happy b-day on August 2nd if you wish), and it was the perfect opportunity to make another attempt at Cupcake Shipping. I was sending her a box of presents anyway, so I thought I’d do Cupcake Shipping Experiment Pt 2. More on THAT later when she sends me some photos. For now, here is the deal on these cupcakes:

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I saw this recipe on Martha Stewart’s website for Cupcakes that are split right down the middle: chocolate cake on one side and vanilla on the other (thus the SPLIT part of banana SPLIT cupcakes...split between chocolate and vanilla...get it?). I scaled down the recipe very weirdly, down to 1/3 of the original. It was actually quite complicated doing so because of the recipe being divided in half anyway into a chocolate batter & a vanilla batter. Yes, some of the measurements are very odd and go to the 100th or even the 1000th decimal place, but just round it and do your best. Here is what I came up with...

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Black and White Cupcakes makes about 8
Ingredients for Vanilla batter:
2 2/3 Tablespoons Butter
.58 C Flour
2/3 tsp Baking powder
.167 Tsp salt
.25 C sugar
2/3 Egg (yes, 2/3 of an egg)
1/3 Tsp vanilla
.167 C milk

Ingredients for Chocolate batter:
2 2/3 Tbl butter
.416 flour
.16 C Cocoa powder (this is 1/2 of 1/3 C)
2/3 Tsp Baking Powder
.167 tsp salt
.25 C Sugar
2/3 Egg
1/3 Tsp vanilla
.167 c Milk (this is half of 1/3 C)

*Note* -- If it makes it easier, these are the measurements for the ingredients TOTAL (vanilla + chocolate batter). So just use half of these measurements for each batter (besides the flour and cocoa, where the measurements are different for each):
5 1/3 Tablespoons butter
1 C Flour
1/3 of 1/2 C Cocoa Powder (I use a 1/2 C measuring cup and just eye about 1/3 of it)
1 1/3 Tsp baking powder
1/3 Tsp salt
1/2 C sugar
1 1/3 egg
2/3 tsp vanilla
1/3 C Milk

Directions:
*Make one batter at a time to avoid confusion.
Preheat the oven to 350. Butter and flour (or use a non-stick spray with flour) a muffin pan, or use paper cupcake liners.
In a medium bowl, whisk the flour, baking powder & salt together to combine.
With an electric mixer, beat butter and sugar together until light and fluffy. Add 2/3 egg and beat well.
Add vanilla and mix until incorporated. On low, beat in 1/2 of the flour mixture, followed by milk, and then end with the remaining flour. Don’t overmix – just mix until it is combined. Set aside. Make the chocolate batter – prepare the same way, except in the beginning, whisk together not only the flour, baking powder and salt, but the cocoa as well.
Using a tablespoon, measure out 3 tablespoons of each batter to put into the wells in the cupcake tin. Do your best to keep each batter to one side.
Bake 22-24 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean after inserted. Cool in the pan for 5 minutes, and then transfer to wire rack to cool completely.

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What is so BANANA about these Banana Split Cupcakes you ask? Well, I had the idea to put a Banana Custard filling in the center of them. I won’t post the custard recipe for two reasons: One- I lost it. Two- It was unsuccessful. It was way too watery, so it kinda absorbed into the cupcake a little bit, and it was overly sweet. Luckily, I only put about a teaspoon of it into the cupcakes, so they were still quite tasty.

With their hats cut off:
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Filling in place:
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The tops trimmed and replaced:
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For the frosting, I used my favorite frosting recipe, and garnished with a sour cherry candy and sprinkles to make it look like a real ice cream sundae.

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11 comments:

My Sweet & Saucy said...

How fun are these! Great idea!

grace said...

they were perfect to begin with, but to add banana custard seals the deal for me. very, very nicely done. :)

Rindy R said...

These remind me of my favorite black and white cookies from NY. Yum - I will have to give these a try. Thanks for sharing!

Jennifer Lynn Jordan said...

Hey look at my blog! I just gave you a silly pointless award. =)

Anonymous said...

i like the banana split idea. putting that on my ever growing list of things to try. :-)

i made a version of these once and got so caught up in all the halving and measuring i forgot the vanilla! man was it a bland cupcake. haha

Marie {Make and Takes} said...

Oooo, I've always wanted to make these. I love the option for the filing too. Great tutorial.

luv 2 cook said...

This is a fun idea. I fear custard but tomarrow is a new day :)

Brilynn said...

Those look amazing!

sara angel said...

how in the world did you get these to be so perfectly split down the middle? amazing.

Anonymous said...

the cupcakes look very cute!

Unknown said...

Loving your cupcakes. My first time on your blog. Glad I found you!
Jackie

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