Best Cupcakes Ever!

I made these cupcakes for Memorial Day a couple years ago and they were absolutely delicious. So below I’m posting the recipe I put together verbatim:

Peach Amaretto Cupcakes (makes 24)

Roasted Peach Mush:

• Halve and pit four medium peaches
• Preheat oven at 350
• Let cool then scoop out and mush

Cupcake Batter:

• · Preheat oven at 350
• 3 cups flour
• 2 tsp baking powder
• ½ tsp salt
• 2 ½ cups sugar
• 1cup unsalted butter (Oberweis sweet cream butter)
• 6 eggs
• 2 tsp vanilla
• 1 ½ cup milk, amaretto, and orange juice (proportioned to taste)
• Roasted peach mush

Filling:

• Marzipan
• Peach Butter

Using electric an mixer, beat together sugar and butter until well combined. Add eggs one at a time until light and fluffy. Prepare rest of wet and dry ingredients separately and alternately add slowly to mixture. Beat until smooth. Fold in peaches. Pour batter into cupcake tins halfway. Roll marzipan balls and dip in peach butter then drop into cupcake tins and let settle. Cover marzipan balls with batter until full. Bake for 28-34 minutes or until golden brown and tops of cupcakes spring back lightly when touched.

July 4th Bake-travaganza!

Okay so we have been derelicht in sharing what Emily and I did on July 4th with you all. Of course this is partially due to exhaustion (and a bit of a hangover on my part) but nonetheless we made some really cool dishes that we should share! That said, the recipes are at my parents house in PA and I can’t recall the names off the top of my head let alone the ingredients

We started by heading to the Landcaster County Farmer’s Market, which is amazing. I’ve been going there with my dad ever since I was a kid. We usually go before special occasions like Thanksgiving or when family visits. It has spoiled me for grocery shopping anywhere else! The meat and produce are beautiful… but the candy counter (with old fashioned rock candy) holds a special place in my heart <3

TBC…

Okay, so a month later and I still never finished writing this up. I wish I could remember exactly what dishes we made, but we had chosen things that we’ve never done before from a Mexican cook book my parents had. Both were slow roasted dishes; one lamb and one pork. The pork one was delicious while the lamb one somehow made everyone sick … My favorite part of the pork dish was actually the sandwich we had the next day!

Liberal use of food processor. Man that thing sucks to clean!

We also made a red velvet cake. Okay, so Emily made most of it, but I snapped a few pictures I’ve always loved the idea of red velvet cake, but every time I’ve tasted some it never tastes the way I feel it was supposed to. I mean in theory it sounds like the perfect cake, but everyone seems to change it by adding things like butter cream or cinnamon. So we decided to find a traditional recipe and make a real red velvet cake:

This is the way vanilla should look!