We made Hibiscus Apple Sauce (that Matt has been eating a jar at a time) & talked about canning safety as well as met a lot of other great Twin Cities foodies. Kris, the event coordinator, even made Pumpkin Butter & Plum Jam for all of us to take home. Lucky us!
Well of course, my head started working around how I could work some of these goodies into a cupcake. I decided I wanted to try something with an Asian twist using the plum jam. The idea first started generating from remembering the plum seasoned popcorn I had in Hawaii & then I thought about the flavors of Asian plum sauce & I was off.
I have to say I was a little afraid of how this cupcake would turn out but when it was done I absolutely loved it. The cake has a wonderful texture, moist but not heavy (it could be one of the best cupcakes I've ever made). The brown sugar gives it a warmer, almost molasses type flavor when compared to cupcakes made with white sugar. The ginger makes these smell heavenly & really adds the Asian flavor. The plum jam in the cake & icing gives a fruity sweetness.
I decided to go with a very simple icing for these cupcakes that just adds some sweetness & more plum flavor. I do think this cupcake would also be wonderful with a cream cheese frosting. I garnished the cupcakes with a few slivers of crystallized ginger.
Asian Plum Cupcakes
1/2 c flour
1/8 t baking soda
pinch of salt
1 egg yolk, from a large egg
6 T packed light brown sugar
3 T buttermilk
1 T plum jam + extra to put in middle
2 t grated fresh ginger (or 1 t dried ground ginger)
2 T unsalted butter, room temperature
Preheat oven to 350 F. Prepare 4 muffin tins.
In a medium bowl whisk together the flour, baking soda & salt. Set aside.
In a small bowl whisk together the egg yolk, brown sugar, buttermilk, jam & ginger. Add 1/2 of this mixture & the butter to the flour mixture. Beat on low until the dry mixture is wet then turn up to medium & beat for about a minute until light. Add the remaining wet mixture & beat for another 30 seconds.
Fill each tin about 1/4 full. Spoon a dab of jam on top of the batter in each tin then top with more batter until each tin is 1/2 full. Bake for 20 minutes. Cool completely on a rack.
Makes 4 cupcakes
Plum Icing
1/2 c powdered sugar
2 t plum jam
Mix the sugar & jam together to form icing. If its too thick add a little more jam or some milk. Ice cupcakes & allow to sit for 15 - 30 minutes to set.
Enough to ice 4 cupcakes
13 comments:
That is just a beautiful cupcake! Very creative.
The volcanic cupcake....most lickable!
I love the cupcake: it's such a pretty pink colour.
I finally got my reader fixed to receive your feed again, so I'm just going to head on over the previous posts to read. I missed a lot of goodstuff!
These cupcakes look fantastic - love the colour of the icing!!
How unusual! Yum! Did you get the pumpkin butter recipe by any chance?
Those sound wonderful!
What a fun cupcake! Love it!
it's so pretty! i think i have an affinity for any food that's naturally pink in color. your oozy icing is extremely enticing (there's that inner poet coming out again...). :)
Ooh plum icing. Very interesting.
Love these cupcakes--I have to try this one out!! They look perfect.
those are gorgeous and the plum sounds delicious!
These look really cute :). The pink color is adorable and the ingredients are so unique! We would love to feature your cupcakes on our blog and possibly our digital recipe reader :). Please email sophiekiblogger@gmail.com if you're interested. Take care!
So pretty. So yummy. lol I have just joined some local Meetup groups, but they're just dining out & social outing groups. Maybe I'll start one like this. Because there isn't one...
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