topic Re: Cupcakes in Recipes

Cupcakes

hondagirl — Tue, 06 Aug 2019 14:13:18 GMT

Looking for a recipe for a vanilla cupcake that is dense like pound cake... Don't like the box mixes because they are too soft and mushy... Any great bakers out there.....

Re: Cupcakes

software — Tue, 06 Aug 2019 14:27:02 GMT

For the Duncan Hines yellow butter mix, you can add some cream cheese instead of butter and use milk instead of water.

Re: Cupcakes

hondagirl — Tue, 06 Aug 2019 14:54:08 GMT

Thanks for the recipe for cupcakes... I am looking for something from scratch - dense muffins too... The ones from the supermarket are awful and sometimes tooi greasy/oil... Any bakers???

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Spacrazy — Tue, 06 Aug 2019 15:13:37 GMT

Look on Martha Stewart’s Cupcakes (which I originally linked from this webpage) and I think the sponge cake recipe is what you might be looking for.

We love it in my family but you will find a huge variety of any flavor you ever wanted. Enjoy and happy baking!

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Nightowlz — Tue, 06 Aug 2019 16:32:38 GMT

@hondagirl wrote:
Thanks for the recipe for cupcakes... I am looking for something from scratch - dense muffins too... The ones from the supermarket are awful and sometimes tooi greasy/oil... Any bakers???

@hondagirl

I got this blueberry muffin recipe off the forums. I don't remember who posted it but Thank you. I'm pretty sure it came from Taste of Home. It's so good. The only recipe I have been using since I saw it here.

Blueberry Cream Muffins

Prep 10 m Cook 20 m Ready In 30 m
2 eggs
1 cups white sugar
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 cups sour cream
1 cups blueberries

Preheat oven to 400°. Grease 12 muffin cups or line with paper muffin liners.
In large bowl beat eggs, gradually add sugar while beating. Continue beating while slowly pouring in oil. Stir in vanilla.
In a separate bowl, stir together flour, salt and baking soda.
Stir dry ingredients into egg mixture alternately with sour cream. Gently fold in blueberries. Scoop batter into prepared muffin cups.
Bake in preheated oven for 20 minutes

I sprinkled the top of the muffins with Turbinado Sugar.

Re: Cupcakes

Spacrazy — Tue, 06 Aug 2019 18:12:57 GMT

Wasnt even looking for recipes but saw this and can’t get them out of my mind so I’m fixin to make them (my tummy and my hips thank you in advance LOL).

Will have to use frozen blueberries but have other ingredients on hand. Wish me luck - yum!

Re: Cupcakes

sfnative — Wed, 07 Aug 2019 17:50:01 GMT

@hondagirl

I have a recipe for a white versus yellow vanilla cake recipe, which we used in my small bakery some years ago. It is more dense than others and also suitable for layer cakes and wedding cakes. Let me know if you're interested in the recipe. You can modify the amount to suit your needs. If you do, I'll need a bit of time to pull it out, as it's not in any of my regular recipe binders.

This recipe would be lots of fun now, with the craze to create colored cake layers and colored cupcake, with the addition of gel colors. Can't use that with yellow or golden cake batter.

Marthat Stewart has a fab recipe to create an ombre cake. It's fabulous! Though I still make and sell cakes, one at a time, if I were a lot more involved, I'd be offering and making ombre cakes. They are so cool!

~Rebecca

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3DogMom2022 — Thu, 22 Aug 2019 14:06:45 GMT

Hi @sfnative I’m new to posting here, but read these forums all the time. Also I live in Northern CA as well. I’ve been a QVC shopper since the beginning, though I buy less and less these days. Anywhoooooo........I wanted to ask you if it you would be interested in sharing your cake recipe with me? I would LOVE to have it! I’m sorry I waited so long, but I thought perhaps it would be posted here. I do understand if you don’t want to though, as you used it in your bakery. Happy Baking! (I just made a lovely peach cobbler with tree ripe organic fruit and a pecan-cinnamon roll top. It is very good. The great peaches make all the difference.)

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house_cat — Thu, 22 Aug 2019 23:23:08 GMT

I always add a small package of vanilla instant pudding to the mix and bake at 325°. I'm not sure if they will be as dense as you desire, but it makes a difference.

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sfnative — Fri, 23 Aug 2019 02:46:03 GMT

@3DogMom2022 wrote:
Hi @sfnative I’m new to posting here, but read these forums all the time. Also I live in Northern CA as well. I’ve been a QVC shopper since the beginning, though I buy less and less these days. Anywhoooooo........I wanted to ask you if it you would be interested in sharing your cake recipe with me? I would LOVE to have it! I’m sorry I waited so long, but I thought perhaps it would be posted here. I do understand if you don’t want to though, as you used it in your bakery. Happy Baking! (I just made a lovely peach cobbler with tree ripe organic fruit and a pecan-cinnamon roll top. It is very good. The great peaches make all the difference.)

@3DogMom2022

Hi CaliDogMom!

Wow! It's so great to have you here with us. I do believe that there are quite a few who have been here since the beginning as well. I made my first purchase in 1989, so, gosh, that's 30 years now. I purchased silver and black onyx earrings from a show hosted by Kathe Levine. Still have those earrings and wear them once in a while.

My white cake recipe: I'd be happy to share it with you! It's now going on 8 p.m. here on the west coast and dinner is late this evening. Tomorrow we're taking our granddaughter to the mall, as a treat, really, for all of us, before she starts kindergarten, and, we'll also go to Hobby Lobby across the street, which she loves - all of the fall and Halloween stuff is going to make her giggle with delight.

My point: I'm also involved in a mighty case of severe sciatica right now, so whatever I do takes forever. I don't recall which binder the recipe is in, so will have to work my way through them. Please be patient with me. I may not be able to post it until Saturday. One thing I'll need to do is to re-type it in Word, as all of my bakery business was on a very old computer (drive), which my husband traded in for a new computer, without telling me. At least I have hard copies. Phew!

Promise I will get that to you. It is a "sturdy" white cake, made to stand up to time and deco and as cake for weddings. It's by no means pound cake, just has a more sturdy crumb than a regular cake.

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hayseed00 — Sun, 25 Aug 2019 23:36:46 GMT

@hondagirl I make the recipe for Texas white sheet cake and make cupcakes with the batter. It's a moist dense delicious cake.

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3DogMom2022 — Tue, 27 Aug 2019 20:43:02 GMT

Thank you so much for replying @sfnative ! I completely understand the issue of taking some time to do things these days. By all means take the time you need. The reason I haven’t been back to reply to you until now is because my neck is such a wreck that I can barely move my head right now. I would love a more “sturdy” cake recipe. Everything I have is either to fluffy to hold up when it comes to decorating, or (in my book) too far toward the realm of pound cake which isn’t what I want either. I hope your sciatica settles down soon!

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catwoman48 — Thu, 19 Sep 2019 00:26:19 GMT

sfnative, I, too, would love to have your white cake recipe. It sounds like something I used to get from a local home baker for my daughter's birthday years ago. (She is turning 35 in a couple of weeks and I am totally in denial.) I haven't had a cake as moist and delicious since.

I know this is off topic, but I have had several bouts with sciatica myself and honestly I thought I was not going to recover from the last one. I have had several bouts with plantar fasciitis, too. I suffer from neither now.

I can recommend exercises for both on YouTube. (I found that traditional doctors were almost useless in both instances.) Try the "neural flossing" for sciatica; stretching is good. Hurts like hell, but it eventually helps. What really helped me with both was a magical topical product I discovered in 2011. My daughter has had 3 hip surgeries for a torn labrum and is now pain-free. It's called Penetrex and it's $20 a jar on the company website or on amazon.com. Even her orthopedic surgeon admits that it works! I recommend it to people all the time, but of course have no connection with the company that makes it. Every night before I go to bed, I rub it on my arthritic fingers and it really helps.

I admit that it did take longer to help with my sciatica during that last attack about 5 years ago. But the point is, it worked and I have not had it again. I know how pervasive the pain is, and I hope you will try something new and get a good result. I hope the Q doesn't poof this, because you might really benefit and you have nothing to lose. In the meantime, we all would selfishly appreciate your giving us that cake recipe!

Also in NoCal.

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catwoman48 — Thu, 19 Sep 2019 00:29:21 GMT

CaliDogMom, read my comments to sfnative before they disappear. I swear, I have had neck pain disappear almost immediately after using my Secret Weapon product! Not selling anything here, just trying to help. Life is barely worth living when one is in terrible pain, how well I know.