CCCC #6 Vanilla Coffee Cupcakes

As soon as I got the new Paula Deen Holiday Baking magazine I knew that if I ever won this would be my recipe. I plan on trying it this weekend. Hope everyone likes the choice....I didn't realize how anxious I would be!!

Vanilla Coffee Cupcakes
Paula Deen

makes about 2 1/2 dz cupcakes

1 cup butter
2 cups sugar
4 large eggs
3 cups all purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
3/4 cup WHOLE milk
1/4 cup strong-brewed cold coffee
1 vanilla bean, scraped
Chocolate Ganache-recipe to follow
chocolate covered coffee beans for garnish ( I also thought that those coffee hershey kisses would be good for garnish that fiddlesticks seems to be the only one to have found!! )

Preheat oven to 350. Foil or paper liners are fine. In a large bowl, beat butter and sugar at medium speed with an electric mixer until fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
In a medium bowl, combine flour, baking powder, and salt. In a small bowl, combine milk and coffee. Gradually add flour mixture to butter mixture, alternately with milk mixture, beginning and ending with the flour mixture. Stir in scraped vanilla bean.
Spoon batter evenly into prepared pans. Bake for 18-20 minutes, or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Let cool in pans for 10 minutes. Remove cupcakes from pans, and cool completely on wire racks. Spread chocolate ganache evenly over cupcakes. Garnish with chocolate covered coffee beans if desired.

Chocolate Ganache
Makes about 2 cups

8 1 oz squares of semisweet chocolate
1/2 cup heavy whipping cream
1 Tablespoon light corn syrup

In a medium bowl, combine chocolate and cream. Microwave on high in 30 sec intervals, stirring between each, until chocolate is melted and smooth (about 2 minutes total). Stir in corn syrup. Use immediately.


I CAN'T wait to try this and am looking forward to everyone's responses!

PM me with a # between 1 and 1000. I'll let meemaw know what I've picked and then we'll announce the winner on 17th of Oct. Thanks for letting me be apart of this fabulous place! Happy baking!

Ugh! Fiddle! You're KILLIN me!! I have found EVERY other flavor and there is pretty much nothing in the world that I love....as far as food or drink ...as coffee flavored ANYTHING!! Hey Mel! I'll come and pick you up...get some cuppies ready....we'll go to fiddle's house...feed her cuppies until she's on a sugar high and then we can just take hers!! And the crunch too!! Yeah! Yeah! Start gettin ready!!!

I got mine at walmart, in the spice aisle. There were 2 beans in a mc cormick gourmet collection bottle. I think it was like $8 but sometimes ya just gotta splurge.

Forgot to tell ya that Paula says you can save the pod of the bean since you just use the scraped out seeds, put it in a container of granulated sugar to make vanilla flavored sugar.