Boston Creme Cupcakes Recipes

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:

• 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 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 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 PIE CUPCAKES

Steps:

• In a large mixing bowl cream together the butter and sugar.
• Add vanilla and beat again.
• Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
• Mix together flour, baking powder and salt in a separate bowl.
• Alternate adding flour mixture and buttermilk to the creamed mixture in 3 batches, beginning and ending with the dry ingredients. Beat after each addition, just until combined.
• Line a lightly greased muffin pan with cupcake liners and fill each liner 3/4 of the way full.
• Bake in a 350°F oven for 18-25 minutes, or until a toothpick comes out clean. Allow to cool completely
• In a medium bowl, beat egg yolks well.
• Gradually stir in milk until well blended.
• In a large, heavy saucepan over medium-low heat, mix together sugar, cornstarch, and salt.
• Gradually add in milk mixture, stirring well to prevent lumps.
• Continue cooking over medium-low heat, stirring constantly until mixture reaches a low boil (about 20 minutes). Mixture should be thickened at this point, and will continue to thicken as it cools. Remove from heat.
• Set pot in a large bowl of ice water, still stirring. Add vanilla and stir to combine.
• Place a piece of plastic wrap directly on filling to prevent a skin from forming and place in refrigerator until ready to use.
• Place chocolate in a food processor and process until it's finely chopped. Transfer to a mixing bowl. Set aside. Heat cream in a small saucepan until the cream starts to steam, stirring often. Gradually add the hot cream to the bowl of chocolate, and whisk until the mixture is smooth. Wait until cool enough to handle but not hardened.
• When the cupcakes are cooled completely, transfer pastry cream filling to a piping bag with filling tip attached.
• Fill each cupcake with pastry cream and set aside.
• Dip each cupcake into the finished ganache. Allow 30 minutes to an hour for the ganache to set.

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.

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 CREAM CUPCAKES

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350°F. Place paper cupcake liners into the cupcake baking tin and set aside.
• Using either a stand mixer or a large mixing bowl and a handheld mixer on medium speed, prepare the cake mix according to the instructions on the back of the box.
• Spoon the cupcake batter into the cupcake liners, filling them half full. Bake for 15-18 minutes or until the cupcakes are lightly golden and a toothpick inserted comes out clean. Allow the cupcakes to cool completely.
• Leave the cupcakes in the cupcake liner, use a sharp knife or a large decorator icing tip, carefully core out only the center of the cupcake about the size of a quarter. Be careful not to cut too deep and cut the liner. Do not replace the tops of the cupcake. Leave them open for the cream.
• Using a handheld mixer and a medium-sized mixing bowl, combine the heavy cream and the instant pudding mix. Beat on medium-low speed until the pudding starts to thicken. Cover with cling wrap and allow the pudding to chill in the refrigerator until filling the cupcakes.
• In a heat-safe small bowl, heat the heavy cream for 2 to 2 1/2 minutes. It is essential that the cream is hot when poured over the chocolate chips.
• In a medium-sized heat-safe bowl, add the 12-ounce bag of chocolate chips and the light corn syrup. Once the cream is piping hot, carefully pour the cream over the chips. Allow the chips, corn syrup, and cream to sit for 2 to 3 minutes before whisking to allow the chips to melt. Use a whisk to combine the hot cream, corn syrup, and chocolate chips. Continue whisking until the chips are melted. Cover the ganache with cling wrap and allow the ganache to cool for about 1 to 1 1/2 hours
• Once the ganache has cooled, using either a stand mixer, or a handheld mixer, whip the ganache for 1 minute until fluffy. (If the ganache is a bit stiff, you can add ½ tablespoon of lukewarm heavy cream)
• To prepare the ganache frosting for the cupcake, you can use a decorators frosting bag and larger frosting tip (Wilton tip 2D or 2A -or- a generic large decorators tip). If you don't have these, you can use a gallon-sized Ziploc baggie with a small corner tip cut off.
• Using either a gallon-sized disposable Ziploc baggie with a small section of the corner tip snipped off, or a decorator's bag with no tip, fill the bag 1/3 of the way full of cream. This will help keep the cupcake filling process a bit less messy and give a bit more control. Twist the top unused portion of the bag to help keep air out and give more control of the cream flow. Place the tip of the bag into the cupcake and use light even pressure to fill the cupcake. Continue until all cupcakes are filled. You will have to stop and refill your baggie with cream.
• To frost the cupcakes, hold the ganache baggie about 1/2 in from the center surface of the cupcake above the cream. Use even pressure, squeeze to form the center of the star-swirl. Keeping the tip elevated and using the same amount of pressure, follow the outer line of the star-swirl. Making kind of a C around the star-swirl until the outer swirl lines connect. Continue until all the cupcakes are frosted.