Brown Sugar-frosted Cupcakes

(from Lucianolinda’s recipe box)

Source: Southern Living- September 2001

Categories: cupcakes- Muffins

Ingredients

  • 1 cup shortening
  • 2 cups sugar
  • 4 large eggs
  • 3 cups cake flour
  • 2 1/2 tsp. baking powder
  • 1/2 tsp. salt
  • 1 cup milk
  • 1 tsp. almond extract
  • Brown Sugar Frosting:
  • 1/2 cup butter or margarine
  • 1 cup firmly packed dark brown sugar
  • 1/4 cup dark corn syrup
  • 2 tsp. cream of tartar
  • 3 cups sifted powdered sugar
  • 3 Tbsp. whipping cream
  • 2 tsp. vanilla extract

Directions

  1. Beat shortening at medium speed with an electric mixer until fluffy; gradually add sugar, beating well. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating well after each addition.
  2. combine flour, baking powder, and salt add to shortening mixture, alternately with milk, beginning and ending with flour mixture. Beat at low speed until blended after each addition. Stir in extracts. Spoon batter into paper-lined muffin pans, filling them half full.
  3. Bake at 365 degrees for 20 minutes. Remove and cool on wire racks. Spread with Brown Sugar Frosting.

  4. makes 3 dozen

  5. Brown Sugar Frosting:

  6. Melt butter in a heavy saucepan over medium-high heat. Stir in brown sugar, corn syrup, and cream of tartar; bring to a boil. Boil 5 minutes. (Do not stir.) Remove from heat; stir in powdered sugar, whipping cream, and vanilla.
  7. Beat at medium speed with an electric mixer 2 minutes. Spread on cupcakes immediately.

  8. 2 cups

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