Best 9 Boston Creme Mini Cupcakes Recipes

BOSTON CREAM PIE MINIS

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350 degrees F.
• Prepare cake batter and bake as directed on package for 24 cupcakes. Cool completely.
• Beat pudding mix and milk with whisk 2 minutes. Let stand 5 minutes. Meanwhile, use serrated knife to cut cupcakes horizontally in half. Stir 1/2 cup Cool Whip® into pudding; spoon onto bottom halves of cupcakes, using about 1 tablespoon for each. Cover with cupcake tops.
• Microwave remaining 1 cup Cool Whip® and chocolate in small microwaveable bowl on high 1 1/2 minutes or until chocolate is almost melted, stirring after 1 minute. Stir until chocolate is completely melted and mixture is well blended. Let stand 15 minutes. Spread onto cupcakes. Refrigerate 15 minutes before serving. Refrigerate leftovers.Each serving provides: 0%DV vitamin A, 0%DV vitamin C, 4%DV calcium, and 4%DV iron.

BOSTON CREME CUPCAKES

Steps:

• Combine milk, instant pudding mix, and vanilla extract in a large bowl. Beat mixture with a hand mixer for 2 minutes, or until it thickens. Place mixture in refrigerator for 15 minutes. Spoon filling into a pastry bag fitted with a medium-size plain tip. Fill cupcakes with vanilla pudding filling by inserting tip into top of cupcake and squeezing a couple of tablespoons of filling into each cupcake.
• Heat cream in a small heavy saucepan over medium heat until bubbles appear around the edges. Remove from heat, add chocolate morsels to pan, and whisk until smooth. Spoon or drizzle glaze over cupcakes, or dunk the tops into the glaze. Refrigerate until set, at least 1 hour, before serving. Sprinkle with powdered sugar.

BOSTON CREAM CUPCAKES

Steps:

• To make cupcakes: Preheat oven to 350°F.
• Cream butter and sugar together with an electric mixer; add vanilla and eggs.
• Sift dry ingredients together and add in 3 stages, alternating with the buttermilk.
• Line muffin pans with paper liners.
• Fill each about three-quarters full with batter.
• Bake 15-20 minutes.
• To make pastry cream: Bring milk just to boil in medium saucepan.
• Whisk egg yolks, sugar and cornstarch together in a bowl.
• Stir just a little of the hot milk into the egg mixture to equalize the temperatures.
• Add a little more hot milk to the egg mixture and stir well again.
• Then add all of the hot milk and stir.
• Return mixture to saucepan; whisk over low heat constantly until mixture becomes thick.
• Pour pastry cream into clean bowl and whisk in vanilla.
• Whisk in butter 1 ounce at a time until smooth.
• Cover surface with plastic wrap and chill until cool.
• Fold whipped cream into chilled pastry cream.
• To make chocolate glaze: Bring cream and corn syrup to boil.
• Pour hot cream over chopped chocolate in a medium bowl.
• Let hot cream sit on the chocolate for about 5 minutes.
• Stir until chocolate is dissolved and smooth.
• Stir in butter.
• To assemble: Fill pastry bag with pastry cream; poke tip of pastry bag into top of each cupcake and inject each with some pastry cream.
• OR slice each cupcake in half horizontally and spread some pastry cream in between layers.
• OR remove a cone-shaped section from center of cupcake, fill hole with pastry cream and then replace cake piece.
• Drizzle chocolate glaze over top of each cupcake.

BOSTON CREAM BITES

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350°F. Generously grease 48 mini muffin cups with shortening or cooking spray; lightly flour cups.
• In large bowl, stir together cake mix, water, butter and eggs until smooth. Spoon batter evenly into muffin cups.
• Bake 8 to 10 minutes or just until cupcakes spring back when touched lightly in center. Cool completely, at least 15 minutes. Remove from muffin cups to cooling rack.
• Using sharp knife, cut top off of each cupcake. Spoon 1 teaspoon pudding onto center of bottom half of each cupcake. Cover with top halves of cupcakes.
• In small microwavable bowl, microwave chocolate chips and whipping cream uncovered on High 30 to 60 seconds or until chips are melted and mixture can be stirred smooth. Spoon chocolate mixture on top of each cupcake. Let stand until chocolate is set before serving. Store in refrigerator.

BOSTON CREAM PIE CUPCAKES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Butter and flour standard muffin tins. Whisk together flour, baking powder, and salt in a small bowl. Warm milk and butter in a saucepan over low heat.
• Beat eggs and sugar with a mixer on high speed until thick and pale, about 5 minutes. Beat in dry ingredients.
• Bring milk and butter to a boil. With mixer on low speed, add milk mixture to batter, and beat until smooth. Add vanilla. Divide batter among muffin cups, filling each halfway. Bake cupcakes until light gold, about 15 minutes. Let cool in tins for 10 minutes, then transfer to wire racks. Let cool.
• Using a serrated knife, cut each in half horizontally. Spread 1 tablespoon vanilla cream on each cupcake bottom. Sandwich with top. Spoon glaze over each and serve immediately.

BOSTON CREAM PIE MINIS

Steps:

• PREHEAT oven to 350ºF. Prepare cake batter and bake in 24 greased medium muffin pan cups as directed on package. Cool 10 minute in pans. Remove to wire racks; cool completely.
• POUR milk into large bowl. Add dry pudding mix. Beat with wire whisk 2 minute or until well blended. Let stand 5 minute to thicken. Meanwhile, using a serrated knife, cut cupcakes horizontally in half. Gently stir 1/2 cup of the whipped topping into pudding.
• Spoon about 1 tablespoons of the pudding mixture onto bottom half of each cupcake; cover with top of cupcake.
• MICROWAVE remaining 1 cup whipped topping and the chocolate in small microwaveable bowl on HIGH 1-1/2 minute or until chocolate is almost melted, stirring after 1 minute.
• Stir until chocolate is completely melted and mixture is well blended. Frost each cupcake with about 1-1/2 teaspoons of the chocolate mixture.
• Refrigerate at least 15 minute before serving. Store leftover cupcakes in refrigerator.

BOSTON CREAM PIE MINIS

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350ºF.
• Prepare cake batter and bake as directed on package for 24 cupcakes. Cool completely.
• Beat pudding mix and milk in medium bowl with whisk 2 min. Let stand 5 min. Meanwhile, use serrated knife to cut cupcakes horizontally in half.
• Whisk 1/2 cup COOL WHIP into pudding; spoon onto bottom halves of cupcakes, using about 1 Tbsp. for each. Cover with cupcake tops.
• Microwave remaining COOL WHIP and chocolate in small microwaveable bowl on HIGH 1-1/2 min. or until chocolate is almost melted, stirring after 1 min. Stir until chocolate is completely melted and mixture is well blended. Let stand 15 min.
• Frost cupcakes with chocolate mixture. Refrigerate 15 min.

BOSTON CREME MINI-CUPCAKES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• Spray 24 mini muffin cups with cooking spray.
• Stir yellow cake mix, water, eggs, and vegetable oil in a bowl until moistened. Beat with an electric mixer on medium speed for 2 minutes.
• Spoon cake batter into the prepared mini muffin cups, filling them about 2/3 full.
• Bake in the preheated oven until cupcakes have risen and are lightly golden brown, 15 to 19 minutes. Check for doneness after 10 minutes. A toothpick inserted into the center of a cupcake should come out clean. Allow cupcakes to cool for about 20 minutes.
• Whisk instant French vanilla pudding mix and milk together in a bowl for 2 minutes. Allow pudding to stand for 5 more minutes to thicken.
• Pipe the vanilla pudding into each cupcake with about 1 1/4 teaspoon vanilla pudding.
• Freeze filled cupcakes for at least 1 hour to make frosting them easier.
• Spread a very thin coating of chocolate frosting over each cupcake; refrigerate cupcakes for 15 minutes.
• Spread second, thicker layer of frosting over the first layer. Place small dollop of whipped cream into center of each frosted cupcake and top with a quarter of a maraschino cherry. Refrigerate mini cupcakes until serving time.

BOSTON CREAM CUPCAKES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°. In a small bowl, cream shortening and sugar until light and fluffy, 5-7 minutes. Beat in egg and vanilla. Combine the flour, baking powder and salt; add to the creamed mixture alternately with milk, beating well after each addition., Fill paper-lined muffin cups half full. Bake until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, 15-20 minutes. Cool for 10 minutes before removing from pan to a wire rack to cool completely., Cut a small hole in the corner of a pastry bag; insert a small tip. Fill with pudding. Push the tip through the top to fill each cupcake., Place chocolate chips in a small bowl. In a small saucepan, bring cream just to a boil. Pour over chocolate; whisk until smooth. Cool, stirring occasionally, to room temperature or until ganache thickens slightly, about 10 minutes. Spoon over cupcakes. Let stand until set. Store in an airtight container in the refrigerator.