Italian Pistachio Cupcake With Buttercream Icing and Simple Sugar

Photo: sunflowers8

Ingredients

12 What do I need for cupcakes

115 grams of shelled pistachios

190 grams butter

1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

6 drops of green food coloring

50 grams almond powder

250 grams sugar

4 large eggs

75 grams flour 00

What you need to cream butter and vanilla (for 12

50 grams butter

100 grams icing sugar

30 grams of fresh cream

1 tablespoon vanilla extract

100 grams icing sugar

What you need for simple sugar glaze

240 ices sugar

1 juice of lemon

Preparation

How to proceed to the cupcake

Preheat oven to 150°C.

Toast the pistachios in the oven for 10 minutes, let cool and chop. Mix the almond powder.

Mix the butter and sugar in bowl, until mixture is light and creamy.

Add the eggs one at a time, then vanilla extract, and mix the dye.

Stir in gradually the powdered almonds, chopped pistachios and flour.

Pull the mixture remained on the walls.

Fill the muffin tins (*) and fill with the mixture up to 2/3.

Cook for 40-50 minutes or until the tip of a knife will come out clean.

Let the cupcakes cool completely.

How to make the butter cream vanilla

Stir with whisk the butter at room temperature with the first 100 grams of powdered sugar for 30 seconds, then add the cream and vanilla essence.

Mix and medium speed for 4 minutes until mixture is smooth and creamy.

United again, and gradually the powdered sugar was hitting for about 1 minute after each addition.

At this point if you want you can add the food coloring, but not in this case.

Continue to beat until the frosting reaches the perfect consistency to be spread easily.

Use it immediately or store in an airtight box at room temperature up to 3 days.

How to proceed with the icing sugar icing simple

Stir with a fork 1 teaspoon lemon juice with the icing sugar.

Continue to incorporate the lemon juice a little at a time, until the glaze will thicken while maintaining a liquid consistency (shall drain from the fork).

Finish

Cut the cupcake in half horizontally and open them.

Fill each half with more than 1/2 tablespoon butter cream vanilla then replace the bottom half.

Nappa then simply the icing sugar icing.

This glaze will harden in a matter of 4/5 minutes

As these cupcake should be cut before being filled, the paper cups is useless. Cook directly in the silicone molds - like my Silikomart of - or in the classic mold containing the paper cups, which will be deleted when the cupcake will be cold.