Maple Buttercream Maple Cupcakes
Nov 23rd, 2009 by prissycook
When I turned 25 I was on a business trip in Detroit. I decided that to celebrate I was going to upgrade my car to a Crown Victoria and I was going to go to Canada. I hear Canada is nice, clean and pretty. Lets say that Windsor, Canada didn’t leave me with the best impression.
I guess its like when people drive through far West Texas and think the whole state is barren land. It’s not really representative of the rest of the State (or country).
I made the Maple Cupcakes from Martha Stewart’s Cupcake cookbook. These were really tasty and I loved working with marzipan for the first time. I need to get a bamboo rolling pin. My traditional maple one is too big and the smaller plastic fondant pin I got this weekend was hard to work with.
To make the maple leaves, I made three different marzipan colors (red, brown and yellow) and then kneaded them together. I think the results were quite pretty.
Martha Steward Cupcake Challenge 16/175
Ingredients
* 3 large egg yolks
* 1 cup pure maple syrup, best quality
* 2 sticks (1 cup) unsalted butter, cold, cut into small pieces
Directions
1. In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the whisk attachment, beat the egg yolks on high speed until light and fluffy, about 5 minutes; set aside. In a small saucepan set over medium-high heat, bring the maple syrup to a boil, and cook until it registers 240 on a candy thermometer, about 15 minutes. Remove from heat.
2. With the mixer running, slowly pour syrup down the side of the bowl in a slow, steady stream, until completely incorporated, about 1 minute. Continue beating until bowl is just slightly warm to the touch, 4 to 5 minutes. Add butter, one piece at a time, until thoroughly incorporated and the frosting is fluffy, about 4 minutes more.
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You should visit more of Canada – there are really some beautiful, beautiful spots! Our Thanksgiving was back in October, these would have been perfect for that!
Yeah… probably should not have gone to Windsor. Try the wineries at Niagara on the Lake next time?
And Canada does indeed have thanksgiving! But in early October. Being more northward, our harvest ends earlier than yours!
You are right, Windsor is not a really good representation of Canada. And to the question on Tastespotting: Yes! Canadians do celebrate Thanksgiving, but on the second Monday of October, and it is just about giving thanks and celebrating harvest. I love the cupcakes!! Makes me miss Canadian Maple Syrup (Canadian living in the UK) Is the recipe for the frosting?
We do have Thanksgiving in Canada, but ours is held in October, because our havest is earlier (as there is usually snow on the ground this late in the year). I have never made Maple cupcakes before, but I sure am tempted!
PS – I am from Western Canada, and I can confirm that out here….it is really, nice, clean and pretty
. Think of Windsor as Canada’s Detriot.
Yeah, Windsor is more like Detroit than like any part of Canada! You should check us out again – I promise the rest of it is super-pretty! And to answer your question on Tastespotting, yes we do have Thanksgiving, but it’s approximately 6 weeks earlier to yours, due both to a different historical reason for having it and out shorter growing season (it’s loooong past harvest time here now!!).
Your cupcakes look super-yummy though! I live in Ottawa, which has tons of maple syrup for sale by local producers, so I’ll definitely try whipping up a batch!
Trust me the rest of Canada is nothing like Windsor. You should try us out again sometime, it’s pretty awesome here.
Canadian Thanksgiving is the second Monday in October. We refer to the one in November as “Yanksgiving”!
Thanks Christine. I do plan on visiting again. This time I’ll go a bit more North and a bit more East or West