Ingredients
- Cupcake:
- 135 g unsalted butter
- 12 g vegetable shortening
- 285 g granulated sugar
- 33 g coconut palm sugar
- 3 eggs
- 7 g vanilla
- 238 g cake flour
- 25 g pistachio flour (shelled pistachios finely ground in the food processor)
- 11 g baking powder
- 1 g salt
- 235 g whole milk
- 2 tbs. pistachios, shelled and coarsely ground
- Frosting:
- 115 g good quality white chocolate
- 70 g heavy cream
- 5 g corn syrup
- 145 g unsalted butter, softened
- 275 g powdered sugar
- 8 g pistachio extract
- 1 drop green food coloring
Preparation
Step 1
Cupcake:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees (177 c).
Cream together butter, shortening and sugars until light and fluffy. Thoroughly beat in 3 eggs.
Sift together dry ingredients. Set aside. In a separate bowl, stir together milk and vanilla. Alternately stir in 1/3 of the milk and dry ingredients beginning with the milk. To finish, beat for 35 seconds.
Insert liners into muffin pan. Fill liner until 1/2-2/3 full.
Bake 20-24 minutes until inserted toothpick comes out clean. To prevent shrinkage, cool in the muffin pan before removing.
Note: These cupcakes are very delicate. Bake once tray at a time. To prevent collapse, do not open the oven door to check the cupcakes until at least 15 minutes have passed. Do not fill the muffin cups more than 2/3 full.
Frosting:
Chop chocolate and place in heat proof bowl. In small pan, mix cream, corn syrup and bring to boil. Pour over chocolate. Stir rapidly until smooth. If any clumps of chocolate remains you can heat the mixture in the microwave, stirring after 10 second intervals.
In bowl of stand mixer, beat the softened butter at medium speed until smooth. Add the confectioners’ sugar and beat the mixture at low speed just until combined. Increase the mixer speed to medium and beat until smooth. Add the chocolate mixture and beat until light and fluffy, about 2 minutes. Mix in the extract and food coloring. Let the mixture rest for 15 minutes. Pipe the frosting on the cupcakes and top with ground pistachios. Store the cupcakes in the refrigerator.