Cameo Cherry Cupcakes
I made these cherry cupcakes, decorated with cameo chocolates for Mother’s Day. If you like cherries, you’ll LOVE these cupcakes.
I got this recipe from an old Five Roses cookbook. A cake recipe, that I adapted for cupcakes. It yields 11 large cupcakes,
or 12 medium cupcakes.
1 1/2 cups flour
2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1/3 cup butter
3/4 cup sugar
2 eggs
1/4 cup milk
1/4 cup cherry juice
1 cup maraschino cherries, sliced in half.
Whisk together the powder and salt.
Toss the cherries in a tbsp of flour and add them to the flour mixture.
With a mixer, cream the and sugar, adding the eggs.
Combine the cherry juice and milk together in a measuring cup.
With a wooden spoon, mix the flour and butter mixes together,
alternately, with the milk and cherry juice.
Do not overmix, as
flour, baking it butter will cause tough cupcakes.
Fill the muffin paper lined pan. An ice cream scoop works well to fill the pans, or use 2 spoons.
Bake about 20 minutes or when a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean.
There’re not pretty delicious!
For the frosting, I used Betty Crocker Whipped Frosting.
I added 2 tsp. cherry juice and 1 drop of red food colouring.
I decorated the middle with cameo chocolates.
I’m not a pro at decorating with frosting.
Happy Mother’s mothers out there.
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