What inspired me today was some granny smiths and some pistachios. Since I have been on a baking spree the past few weeks, I decided to make some cupcakes.
I find it cute that my paring knife is color coordinated with the apples as well as the pistachios.
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| and the color of the day is apple green, literally |
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| Pistachios roughly chopped |
This is the jist of what I did:
I cooked the apples in unsalted butter, pureed the mixture in the food processor and let it cool down a few minutes. I then creamed the sugar with the eggs and the vanilla extract, adding the apple mixture while mixing continuously then I added some cream and mixed some more. I sifted some flour and some baking soda and slowly incorpated this dry mixture into the wet mixture until there were no more lumps. I transfered the batter into cupcake pans and baked them in the oven at 350'F. As for the baking time, I wasn't sure at first since this is an experiment, so what I did was checked it after 10 minutes and when I saw that only a small portion of the cupcakes' middle part was still wet, I turned the oven off and let it set in the oven 5 minutes more. While waiting for the cupcakes to cool down, I made some simple vanilla butter cream and roughly chopped some pistachio nuts. I then frosted the cooled down cupakes with the buttercream and sprinkled with the pistachio nuts on top.
And the finished product:
