Butter Pecan Cupcakes

More experimenting. I wanted to try a recipe from a cupcake magazine that my mom got me called Simply Sweet - Best Cupcakes Ever! So I decided to make the Butter Cake recipe from it to test it out. +/-

The batter was really tasty lol. And it was a nice consistency, not too thick or thin.

It only makes 12 cupcakes too, which was good as I was running out of ingredients haha. Thankfully my mom got some more ^_^ (thanks again Mom!). She's funding my fetish lol. So there's a tip for getting cupcakes into the little holders nicely and that's to use an ice cream scoop!

It really works, because there was barely any mess from it:

Bakin'

They managed to get nice domes on the top, which is something that's kinda hard to do with some recipes:

I needed a flavor to go with the butteryness of the cupcakes, so I chose the butter pecan flavor combo. The frosting ended up having most of the butter pecan "stuff" as I wanted to try the new cake recipe as closely as possible (aka no adding nuts to the batter or anything). So the frosting got some chopped pecans added to it and a little bit of almond extract (which ended up overpowering the pecan flavor somewhat :/).

And to top them off, some freshly roasted pecans:

I chopped them up and sprinkled them on top of the cupcakes:

The nuts clogged the piping tips when I tried to frost them so I just used the bag opening and did "dollops" of frosting instead. It still worked out :).