Friday, October 17, 2008

Candy Corn Cupcakes



I love Halloween. I love the costumes and the decorations. I love the haunted houses and the jack o'lanterns. But most of all, I love candy corn.

I wanted to combine my favorite Halloween candy with my favorite baked good- viola! Candy corn cupcake.

Candy corn has a tendency to be overly sugary sweet and I know that a lot of people don't like it for that very reason. I wanted the cupcakes to give a hint of candy corn flavor that wasn't over powering or too sweet.

I scoured the internet to see if I could find any candy corn cupcake recipes, but no luck. Maybe my google-fu isn't as good as it should be, but as far as I know there isn't a recipe for candy corn cupcakes out on the old interwebs.

I decided to use a recipe for White Velvet cupcakes (from Cupcakes Galore by Gail Wagman) which includes mini marshmallows baked in. Then I chose to make Swiss Meringue Buttercream as the frosting, adding some honey to enhance the candy corn flavors.

As you can see from the picture below, my attempt to layer the colored batters didn't come out exactly as I planned. The marshmallows prevented the batter layers from settling evenly. But, I'm ok with that.


The cake tasted more like a sugar cookie to me, but the frosting was amazing. I just took the regular SMBC recipe and added about two teaspoons of honey (to taste). Mmmm....

Happy Halloween (a little early)!

5 comments:

Kate said...

That frosting looks frigging amazing. Come bake me some cupcakes!

CB said...

I love candy corn! I think you're right. I did a google search for candy corn cupcakes before and didn't find anything. Your cupcakes look awesome! Thanks for Boo-tiful Halloween Cupcakes Contest!
Clara @ iheartcuppycakes!

How To Eat A Cupcake said...

Thanks for entering. I <3 <3 <3 candy corn!

Rachel said...

yummy! looks delicious! I LOVE Swiss Meringue Buttercream. It is my new favorite!!!

Unknown said...

Wow, could i have that recipe? i've been looking every where for one*^_^* my email is celestiawas@gmail.com