Boston Cream Cupcakes. In a small bowl, cream shortening and sugar until light and fluffy. Combine the flour, baking powder and salt; add to the creamed mixture alternately with milk, beating well after each addition. Prepare cake mix according to package directions.
Ingredients of Boston Cream Cupcakes
- Prepare 1 box of butter cake mix and ingredients on box.
- Prepare 1 box of vanilla pudding and ingredients on box.
- Prepare 1 can of milk chocolate frosting.
Sometimes when a craving hits, you don't have time to make the full blown version of an outrageous Boston-Cream-Pie. so this is the next best thing! My son recently craving my Boston Cream Cake settled for this a less time consuming version. Although you start with a cake mix for the cupcakes, the pastry cream and ganache make these little baby's a perfect individual dessert to serve! Boston Cream Cupcakes are a mini version of the classic with soft, fluffy, cupcakes, vanilla pastry cream filling, and a rich, decadent chocolate ganache.
Boston Cream Cupcakes instructions
- Prepare pudding as directed. Place in refrigerator..
- Prepare cupcakes with cake mix as directed..
- Cool cupcakes completely..
- Poke a hole in center of each cupcake with the end of a wooden spoon..
- Using a pastry bag or Ziploc bag with end cut off and filled with pudding, push tip into hole and put very slight pressure on the bag. Stop when you start to see pudding at the top of the hole..
- Frost cupcakes..
- These must be kept refrigerated since they contain pudding. Enjoy!.
Gracious talks endlessly about his love for Boston Cream doughnuts. I mean, seriously, the man loves his doughnuts. A classic American dessert is made into bite-sized cupcakes by slicing the the cake and filling with a traditional vanilla cream. Like a Boston Cream Pie, the cupcakes are also topped with a chocolate-ganache glaze. In the bowl of a stand mixer, combine the flour, sugar, baking powder and salt on low speed.