Cotton Candy Cupcakes
Source of Recipe
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List of Ingredients
Cupcakes:
-1 pkg (18.25oz plain white cake mix)
-1 1/2 cups blueberry yogurt (2 cartons 6oz each}
-1/4 cup water
-1/4 cup veg oil
-3 lg egg whites
-5-6 drops blue food coloring
Cotton Candy Butter Cream:
-3 oz {1/2 bag about 4 cups blue cotton candy}
-4 tbsp {1/2 stick} butter at room temp
-3 cups confectioners' sugar sifted
-3 tbsp milk
Recipe
-Place a rack in the center of the oven and preheat the oven to 350* line 24 cupcake cups with paper liners set the pans aside.
Prepare the cupcake batter:
-Place the cake mix, yogurt, water, oil egg whites and food coloring in a large mixing bowl.
-Blend with an electric mixer on low speed for 30 seconds.
-Stop the machine and scrape down the sides of the bowl with a rubber spatula.
-Increase the mixer speed to medium and beat for 2 minutes more.
-Spoon or scoop 1/4 cup batter into each of the lined cupcake cups.
-Filling it two thirds of the way full.
-You will get between 22 and 24 cupcakes.
-Remove any empty liners.
-Place the pans in the oven.
-Bake the cupcakes until they are lightly golden and spring back when pressed, 17 to 20 minutes.
-Remove the pans from the oven and place them on wire racks to cook for 5 minutes.
-Run a dinner knife around the edges of the liners, lift the cupcakes up from the bottoms of the cups using the end of the knife and pick them out of the cups.
-Place them on a wire rack to cool 15 minutes before frosting.
Meanwhile, prepare the Cotton Candy Buttercream:
-Measure out 2 1/2 cups cotton and set it aside for frosting.
-Measure out 1 to 1 1/2 cups and set it aside for the garnish.
-Place the butter in a large mixing bowl and blendwith an electric mixer on low speed untilcreamy, 30 seconds.
-Add the 2 1/2 cupscotton candy and blend on low until it is incorporated.
-The mixture will be blue and grainy.
-Add the sugar and milk and blend on low until the frosting comes together and is nearly smooth. 1 to 1 1/2 minutes.
-It will still be a little grainy increase the mixer speed to med high and beat the frosting to incorporate air so that it is fluffy, 30 seconds
-Place a heaping tbsp of frosting on each cupcake and swirl to spread it out with a short metal spatula or a spoon.
-Tear the cotton candy reserved for garnish and press a piece into the top of each cupcake.
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