Baking delicious white chocolate cherry cupcakes or creating a luscious icing for them is an art form that requires careful selection of ingredients and precise execution of steps. Whether you're a seasoned baker or just starting out, this guide will provide you with insights and tips to craft delectable treats that will tantalize your taste buds and impress your loved ones. We'll delve into the nuances of combining white chocolate's creamy richness with the tart sweetness of cherries, exploring variations in batter composition, oven techniques, and frosting preparations. Discover how to achieve perfectly moist cupcakes with a tender crumb and a vibrant cherry flavor, complemented by a smooth and velvety frosting that strikes the perfect balance between sweetness and tanginess. Let's embark on a culinary journey to create irresistible white chocolate cherry cupcakes or icing that will delight your senses and leave you craving more.
Here are our top 7 tried and tested recipes!
CHOCOLATE-CHERRY CUPCAKES
If you're a fan of chocolate and cherry, then these cupcakes are for you! Start by making a quick cherry compote to use in both the cupcakes and the frosting for maximum cherry flavor! The cherry buttercream recipe makes enough to generously frost the cupcakes, so keep that in mind when making it!
Provided by Kim
Time 1h40m
Yield 24
Number Of Ingredients 21
Steps:
- Bring cherries, sugar, and lemon juice to a simmer in a medium pot over medium-low heat. Cook until sugar is dissolved, stirring frequently. Remove 2 tablespoons of cherry juice from the pot and place in a small bowl. Stir in cornstarch until thoroughly combined. Add cornstarch mixture to the pot and simmer until thickened and slightly reduced, about 5 minutes more.
- Remove compote from heat and cool completely. Measure out 1 cup for the cupcake batter. Reserve remaining compote, about 6 tablespoons, for the frosting.
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Line or grease two standard 12-cup muffin tins.
- Whisk flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, baking powder, and salt together in a medium bowl. Set aside.
- Beat brown sugar, butter, and white sugar together in a large bowl until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs one at a time, mixing well after each addition. Stir in vanilla extract. Mix in 1/3 of the flour mixture, stirring until just combined. Pour in 1/2 of the sour cream and cooled coffee; mix until just combined.
- Continue alternating additions of the flour mixture with sour cream and coffee, beginning and ending with the flour mixture, until batter is smooth. Do not overmix. Gently fold in 1 cup cherry compote. Fill each prepared muffin cup 2/3 full of batter.
- Bake in the preheated oven until the tops of the cupcakes spring back lightly when touched, 15 to 18 minutes. Cool in the tins for a few minutes before removing to a wire rack to cool completely.
- Prepare cherry buttercream while the cupcakes are cooling. Beat butter in a large bowl until light and fluffy. Add powdered sugar, 1 cup at a time, beating well after each addition. Mix in vanilla and salt. Add 2 tablespoons of cherry compote and beat on medium-high speed until thoroughly combined. Repeat twice more with remaining cherry compote, beating well after each addition. Add heavy cream and beat until frosting is fluffy, 2 to 3 minutes.
- Spread or pipe frosting over the cooled cupcakes.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 337.5 calories, Carbohydrate 50.8 g, Cholesterol 51.9 mg, Fat 15.1 g, Fiber 1.7 g, Protein 2.9 g, SaturatedFat 9.3 g, Sodium 214.9 mg, Sugar 39.4 g
WHITE CHOCOLATE CHERRY CUPCAKES OR ICING
Recipe for the "basic vanilla cupcakes" recipe I previously posted or use the recipe of you're liking. Add some white chocolate chips and/or cherries to batter before baking! Or use as topping! I like to dip stemmed cherries in melted white chocolate before I set atop!
Provided by GoldsmithLissa
Categories Dessert
Time 45m
Yield 18 cupcakes
Number Of Ingredients 8
Steps:
- Prepare, bake and cool cupcakes.
- Melt 2 1/4 c white chocolate chips, cool slightly.
- On medium speed, beat butter until fluffy. Beat in melted chocolate, vanilla, confectioners' sugar until smooth.
- Chill until thickened (approx 15 mins).
- Spoon jam or filling until freezer bag. Snip 1/4" hole in one corner. Insert bag tip 1" deep into center top of each cupcake. Squeeze 1 Tbs jam into each.
- Transfer frosting into pastry bag fitted with decorative tip and pipe over cupcakes.
- Optional topping:.
- Sprinkle with edible glitter or red sprinkles and white chocolate shavings from chocolate bar. Melt remaining white chocolate and barely dip fresh cherries into mixture. Cool and set atop each cupcake.
WHITE CHOCOLATE CHERRY CUPCAKES
Provided by Food Network
Time 43m
Yield 28 cupcakes
Number Of Ingredients 27
Steps:
- Preheat the oven to 300 degrees F. Prepare a cupcake pan with 24 cupcake liners.
- Combine the cake flour, pudding mix, baking powder, baking soda, and salt in 1 medium bowl. Crack the eggs into a second bowl and add the vanilla extract. Measure the milk and half-and-half into a third bowl. In a 5-quart mixer with a paddle attachment, cream the butter until fluffy. Stop the mixer and scrape down the sides using a spatula. Turn the mixer on first speed, add the sugar, and mix until fluffy. Add eggs 1 at a time. Scrape down the bowl. Add sour cream and mayonnaise and incorporate completely. Scrape down the bowl. Add the dry ingredients, alternating with wet. You will start and end with the dry ingredients. Mix the batter until smooth and no lumps are present.
- De-stem the maraschino cherries and squeeze out the excess liquid. Using a food processor, mince the cherries using the pulse button. Do not over process. Add the minced cherries, cherry juice, and white chocolate chips to the batter. Incorporate the ingredients completely using a spatula. Fill the cupcake liners using a 2-ounce scoop. Bake until golden brown and light and fluffy, 17 minutes. Let the cupcakes cool completely before decorating.
- To assemble: Place a round tip # 809 into a large piping bag. Fill the piping bag with Casey's Buttercream and generously pipe onto each cupcake. Garnish each cupcake with 1 maraschino cherry and 5 large pearls. Finish by sprinkling edible glitter over the tops of the cupcakes.
- In a 5-quart mixer with the paddle attachment, cream the butter and shortening together. On first speed, add the sifted powdered sugar to the bowl in 3 parts. Let each part incorporate into the butter mixture before adding the next. After adding all the sugar, put the mixer on the fourth (highest) speed and mix for 8 to 10 minutes. The buttercream will begin to gain volume and look white and fluffy. Once you bring the buttercream to full volume, add the extracts and vodka and incorporate completely.
WHITE CLAW BLACK CHERRY CUPCAKES
You can have your favorite drink and eat it too with these fun, party-ready cupcakes. We took boxed red velvet cake mix and added a hefty dose of White Claw Black Cherry Hard Seltzer. Each baked cupcake is then stuffed with oozy, boozy jam to bump up the cherry taste, swirled with fluffy vanilla frosting and finished with a cocktail cherry on top!
Provided by Food Network Kitchen
Categories dessert
Time 55m
Yield 24 cupcakes
Number Of Ingredients 7
Steps:
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Line two 12-cup muffin tins with paper liners and spray lightly with cooking spray.
- Beat the cake mix, 1 1/3 cups of the hard seltzer and the eggs together in a large bowl with an electric mixer on medium-high speed until smooth and combined, about 2 minutes. Divide evenly among the prepared muffin tins (each cup should be about three-quarters full). Bake until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, 15 to 20 minutes, rotating tins halfway through. Turn cupcakes out onto a wire rack and cool completely.
- Meanwhile, stir the remaining hard seltzer (about 1/4 cup) and the cherry jam together in a small saucepan and place over medium heat. Simmer, stirring occasionally, until thickened and reduced slightly, 5 to 8 minutes. Transfer to a small bowl or glass liquid measuring cup and refrigerate until completely cool and set, about 45 minutes.
- Scoop out a 1/2-inch-wide and 1/2-inch-deep hole from the center of each cupcake top using a small measuring spoon. Fill each hole with the spiked cherry jam (about 1 1/2 teaspoons per cupcake).
- Beat the vanilla frosting in a large bowl with an electric mixer on medium-high speed until light and fluffy, 4 to 5 minutes. Transfer to a piping bag fitted with a large star pastry tip. Pipe the frosting onto the cupcakes to cover the jam, leaving the edge exposed. Top each with a maraschino cherry.
CHOCOLATE AND CHERRY CUPCAKES
These indulgent chocolate and cherry cupcakes melt in your mouth with it's tasty gooeyness.
Provided by foreverm97
Time 1h
Yield Makes Cakes
Number Of Ingredients 0
Steps:
- Preheat the oven to 1800C/ Gas Mark 4.
- In a large mixing bowl cream the butter and sugar until the mixture is pale and smooth â this should take 3-5 minutes using an Electric Hand Mixer.
- Add the eggs and vanilla extract and beat again briefly â add the sifted flour and baking powder and beat the mixture again until itâs well combined.
- Stir in the pieces of Dark Chocolate and Cherries using a wooden spoon (Make sure you do not crush the chocolate, otherwise when the cupcakes are baking, the chocolate wonât melt inside).
- Carefully spoon the mixture into each of the cupcake cases, filling them to about two-thirds full.
- Bake them in the oven for about 20-25 minutes â to check they are cooked, insert a skewer in the centre of the cakes which should come out clean.
- Remove from the oven and leave the cakes in their tins for about 10 minutes before carefully placing on a wire rack to cool.
- Once they are completely cool, ice the cupcakes with the Chocolate Buttercream icing using a mini palette or butter knife. For decoration, place 5-6 almonds on each top in a petal formation and a dot of white icing in the centre as the pollen.
CHOCOLATE CHERRY CUPCAKES
A Nigella Lawson recipe that always has people asking for more - even people who don't normally eat chocolate cakes. Very morish. Use the best jam you can afford. If you use a relatively cheap jam, it'll probably be sweeter so use less sugar. You could also try adding a splash of kirsch to the batter and icing if you so desire. Very easy to make too.
Provided by Lisa Connelly
Categories Dessert
Time 55m
Yield 12 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 10
Steps:
- Preheat the oven to 180C/gas mark 4.
- Melt the butter in a heavy bottomed pan.
- When it's nearly comletely melted, stir in the chocolate.
- Leave it for a moment to begin softening, then take the pan off the heat and stir with a wooden spoon until the butter and chocolate are smooth and melted.
- Now add the cherry jam, sugar, salt and eggs.
- Stir with a wooden spoon and when all is pretty well amalgamated stir in the flour.
- Scrape and pour into the muffin papers standing in a muffin tin and bake for 25 minutes.
- Cool in the pan for 10 minutes before turning out.
- When the cupcakes are cool, break the chocolate for the icing into little piecesand add them to the cream in a saucepan.
- Bring to the boil, remove from the heat and whisk the mixture either by hand, or with an electric mixer till it's thick and smooth.
- Ice the cakes with a spoon and put a cherry on the centre of each cake.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 375.2, Fat 22.7, SaturatedFat 13.8, Cholesterol 69.3, Sodium 200.4, Carbohydrate 45.1, Fiber 3.8, Sugar 24.9, Protein 5.1
CHOCOLATE-CHERRY CUPCAKES WITH CREAM CHEESE BUTTERCREAM FROSTING
Combine 2 tasty flavors and create something even more delicious! Chocolate plus cherry flavor inside, and a cherry on top of luscious buttercream frosting, will have your family asking for more.
Provided by Bibi
Categories Desserts Fruit Dessert Recipes Cherry Dessert Recipes
Time 1h40m
Yield 24
Number Of Ingredients 10
Steps:
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Line 24 muffin cups with paper liners.
- Strain maraschino cherries over a large measuring cup. Count out 24 cherries with their stems intact and set aside on paper towels. Remove stems from the remaining cherries and place one in the bottom of each lined muffin cup.
- Stir cherry-flavored brandy into the cherry juice. Add more brandy or water to total 1 1/4 cups liquid. Pour liquid into a bowl.
- Add eggs and oil; beat with an electric mixer on low speed until just combined. Add cake mix and beat on medium speed for about 2 minutes. Evenly divide batter among the muffin cups.
- Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, 15 to 17 minutes. Cool in the tins for about 10 minutes. Transfer to a wire rack to cool completely, about 50 minutes.
- Meanwhile, make the frosting. Combine cream cheese and butter in the bowl of an electric mixer and beat on medium speed until blended, about 1 minute. Add vanilla extract and salt; beat for 1 minute more. Add powdered sugar, 1 cup at a time, beating after each addition. Add additional powdered sugar if frosting is too thin.
- Frost each cupcake and garnish with the reserved cherries.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 269.7 calories, Carbohydrate 35.8 g, Cholesterol 42.2 mg, Fat 13.1 g, Fiber 0.3 g, Protein 2.8 g, SaturatedFat 5.2 g, Sodium 187.2 mg, Sugar 23.7 g
Tips:
- Use high-quality white chocolate to ensure the best flavor.
- Make sure the butter and cream cheese are at room temperature before creaming together to ensure a smooth and creamy batter.
- Do not overmix the batter, as this can result in tough cupcakes.
- Fill the cupcake liners only 2/3 full to prevent them from overflowing during baking.
- Bake the cupcakes until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.
- Allow the cupcakes to cool completely before frosting them.
- Use a piping bag or a ziplock bag with the corner snipped off to create a decorative swirl on top of the cupcakes.
- Garnish the cupcakes with fresh cherries, white chocolate shavings, or sprinkles before serving.
Conclusion:
These white chocolate cherry cupcakes are a delightful treat that is perfect for any occasion. They are moist and fluffy, with a delicious white chocolate flavor that is perfectly complemented by the tartness of the cherries. The frosting is smooth and creamy, and it adds the perfect finishing touch to these cupcakes. Whether you are a seasoned baker or a novice, these cupcakes are sure to be a hit with everyone who tries them.
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