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Boston Cream Pie Cupcakes

Ingredients
  

Cupcakes

  • 6 T. soft butter
  • ¾ c sugar
  • ¼ c. plus 2 T. sour cream
  • 2 tsp. vanilla
  • 3 egg whites (reserve 2 yolks for pastry cream)
  • 1 ¼ c. flour
  • 2 tsp. baking powder
  • ¼ tsp. salt
  • ¼ c. plus 2 T. milk
  • 2 T. water

Pastry cream

  • 2 egg yolks
  • 6 T. sugar
  • 1 ½ T. cornstarch
  • 1 cup + 2 T. milk
  • 1 T. butter
  • 1 tsp. vanilla

Chocolate Ganache Frosting

  • 12 oz semi sweet chocolate chips
  • 2 T. light corn syrup
  • ¾ cup + 2 T. heavy whipping cream

Instructions
 

Cupcakes

  • Preheat oven to 350°F and line a cupcake pan with cupcake liners.
  • In mixer, cream butter and sugar together 4 mins,
  • Add sour cream and vanilla extract and mix.
  • Add whites and combine well.
  • Combine dry ingredients in a separate bowl.
  • In a measuring cup, combine milk and water.
  • Add half the dry ingredients to the mixer.
  • Then add the milk/water and finish with the rest of the dry.
  • Fill cupcake liners halfway and bake 15-18 mins.
  • Cool

Pastry Cream

  • Put yolks in a bowl and whisk.
  • Put sugar, cornstarch and milk in a saucepan and cook on medium until starts to thicken while stirring constantly.
  • Lower heat and simmer 2 minutes then remove heat.
  • Add a little of this to the yolks stirring so the yolks don't cook.
  • Add the mixture all back into the pot and bring to a gently boil.
  • Cook 2 mins while stirring.
  • Remove heat and stir in butter/vanilla. Cool.

Ganache

  • Boil the cream and pour over the chips/corn syrup in a heatproof bowl.
  • Cover and let sit a few mins and then whisk.
  • Chill 2 hours until completely cool.

Assembly,

  • Cut out centers and fill with pastry cream. Replace top with a small piece of cake you cut out.
  • Pipe on the ganache!
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  • Store in fridge.