Fabulously Sweet

BACON MAPLE CUPCAKES & MAPLE CREAM CHEESE FROSTING yield: 24 cupcakes or 80 mini-cupcakes Ingredients For the Bacon Maple Cupcakes 3 cups all-purpose flour 3 teaspoons baking powder 1 teaspoon salt 1/2 cup butter, slightly softened,cut into chunks 1/2 tablespoon bacon drippings (left in the fridge to become solid) 2 cups pure maple syrup (I used grade A but any grade will suffice; must be ‘pure’ maple syrup) 3 egg yolks 1 large egg 1 1/2 cups whole milk (I […]

I have wanted to bake something with bacon for awhile now, so I finally broke down and decided to use this savory ingredient in the form of a cupcake. Searching for example recipes was a little frustrating; there wasn’t too many out there in cyber-space and the majority I found were very similar. So in the end I found two that I liked. I combined the two recipes to create this heavenly bacon dessert and found a yummy maple cream […]