never eat soggy waffles

Friday, January 8, 2010

my be continued...

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
-Mark Twain

Sunday, January 3, 2010

Friday, October 23, 2009

pumpkin cupcakes with brown butter icing...

These cupcakes were really yummy. To prevent dryness take them out early.

A Martha Stewart Recipe

Cupcake recipe:
3/4 cup unsalted butter
1 2/3 cups all-purpose flour
1/4 cup fresh sage leaves, I chopped them
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg
1/8 teaspoon ground cloves
1 cup canned pumpkin puree, not pie filling
1 cup packed light-brown sugar
1/2 cup granulated sugar
2 large eggs

1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Brush muffin tins with butter and dust with flour. In a saucepan over medium-low heat melt the butter. Add the sage and swirl until butter is golden brown. Skim foam from top, and remove from heat. Pour into a bowl to stop from cooking; let cool.
2. Whisk together flour, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves. In another bowl, whisk together the pumpkin puree, both sugars, eggs, and brown-butter, mixture. Add flour mixture and whisk until combined.
3. Divide batter evenly among cups. Bake for 20 minutes, rotating tins halfway through.Transfer cupcakes to a cooling rack and allow to cool completely.
4. To finish, dip each cupcake in icing, then turn over quickly to set.

Brown Butter Icing Recipe:
1/2 cup unsalted butter
2 cups sifted confectioners' sugar
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
2 tablespoons milk, plus more if needed

1. In a saucepan over medium heat melt the butter, swirl pan until butter is nut-brown in color, about 10 minutes. Remove from heat and pour into a bowl.
2. Add confectioners' sugar, vanilla and 2 tablespoons of milk to brown butter; stir until smooth. Add more milk if needed, until icing is spreadable. Use immediately.

Stewart, Martha. (2009).Martha Stewart's cupcakes: 175 inspired ideas for everyone's favorite treat. New York: Clark/Potter Publishers.