Vanilla cupcakes with Boston cream

Incomparably delicious, beautiful and appetizing! Vanilla cupcakes with Boston cream can be considered miniature copies of the Boston cream cake – the famous American dessert. Each cupcake is filled with a delicate cream and decorated with a fluffy cap of chocolate ganache on top.
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Composition / ingredients

servings:
Translation table of volumetric measures
Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe
By weight of the composition:
Proteins 7 % 4 g
Fats 34 % 19 g
Carbohydrates 59 % 33 g
323 kcal
GI: 9 / 3 / 88

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 1 h
  1. Step 1:

    Step 1.

    How to make vanilla cupcakes with Boston cream? First of all, make a cream and ganache. They need to stand up. How to make Boston cream? Divide the eggs into whites and yolks. The whites will go into the dough, the yolks into the cream. Mix cold milk with yolks, sugar, vanilla sugar in a saucepan. Add starch. Put everything on a small fire. Stirring constantly, bring to a boil.

  2. Step 2:

    Step 2.

    When the mass starts bubbling and thickens, remove it from the heat. Cool it for 5 minutes, and then add the softened butter. Stir the cream until smooth. Cover with a film so that it lies on the surface of the cream. This will prevent the formation of a crust. Remove the cream to cool in the refrigerator.

  3. Step 3:

    Step 3.

    How to make chocolate ganache? Divide the cream into two parts, each 100 ml. Put one part in the refrigerator for cooling. Heat the other 100 ml of cream in a saucepan to a temperature of 40 degrees. Add the chocolate to the cream and let it melt. Mix thoroughly. Then let the creamy chocolate mixture cool down well.

  4. Step 4:

    Step 4.

    Whisk the remaining 100 ml of chilled cream into a thick foam. When choosing cream, pay attention to their quality — they should not contain vegetable fats and other additives. Otherwise, the cream may not be whipped. Read about how to properly whip cream at the end of the recipe. Gradually add the cooled creamy chocolate mass to the cream. Carefully whisk the resulting ganache, cover with cling film and put it in the refrigerator for at least 4 hours.

  5. Step 5:

    Step 5.

    It remains to bake cupcakes. How to make vanilla cupcakes? Beat the soft butter with sugar to a fluffy light mass, add vanilla sugar.

  6. Step 6:

    Step 6.

    Add sour cream. Then enter the proteins one at a time, while stirring the dough each time.

  7. Step 7:

    Step 7.

    Then pour half a portion of flour with baking powder, mix. Add milk and water. And at the end, flour again. Mix the dough thoroughly until smooth.

  8. Step 8:

    Step 8.

    Prepare paper cupcake molds. Pour the dough to 2/3 of the height. Place the molds on a baking sheet or in a cupcake mold.

  9. Step 9:

    Step 9.

    Bake cupcakes in the oven, preheated to 180 ° C, until golden brown. When the top layer of baking is slightly browned, check it for readiness: pierce it with a wooden skewer in several places, if the skewer comes out dry, then the mold (or baking sheet) can be taken out of the oven. Cool the finished cupcakes.

  10. Step 10:

    Step 10.

    Cut out the middle of the cooled cupcakes.

  11. Step 11:

    Step 11.

    Put the cream in the cooking bag.

  12. Step 12:

    Step 12.

    Squeeze it into cupcakes.

  13. Step 13:

    Step 13.

    Also put the ganache in a cooking bag with a closed star nozzle. Squeeze the ganache onto the cupcakes with a beautiful cap. Everything is ready! Bon appetit!

How to whip cream properly? It is important that the cream is fat, at least 33%. The whipping dishes and the cream themselves should be cold, keep them in the refrigerator for at least 1-2 hours. Beat with a mixer at minimum speed, gradually increasing the speed. How do I know if the cream is whipped enough? The creamy mass should retain its shape and not spread. At this point, stop whipping. Otherwise, the cream will turn into butter.

Keep in mind that everyone's ovens are different. The temperature and cooking time may differ from those specified in the recipe. To make any baked dish successful, use useful information about the features of ovens !

Be prepared for the fact that you may need more or less flour than indicated in the recipe. Focus not on the amount of flour, but on the desired consistency of the dough. To avoid mistakes, read about flour and its properties!

Caloric content of products possible in the composition of the dish

  • Whole cow's milk - 68   kcal/100g
  • Milk 3.5% fat content - 64   kcal/100g
  • Milk 3.2% fat content - 60   kcal/100g
  • Milk 1.5% fat content - 47   kcal/100g
  • Concentrated milk 7.5% fat content - 140   kcal/100g
  • Milk 2.5% fat content - 54   kcal/100g
  • Sour cream of 30% fat content - 340   kcal/100g
  • Sour cream of 25% fat content - 284   kcal/100g
  • Sour cream with 20 % fat content - 210   kcal/100g
  • Sour cream of 10% fat content - 115   kcal/100g
  • Sour cream - 210   kcal/100g
  • Whole durum wheat flour fortified - 333   kcal/100g
  • Whole durum wheat flour universal - 364   kcal/100g
  • Flour krupchatka - 348   kcal/100g
  • Flour - 325   kcal/100g
  • Granulated sugar - 398   kcal/100g
  • Sugar - 398   kcal/100g
  • Starch - 320   kcal/100g
  • Butter 82% - 734   kcal/100g
  • Amateur unsalted butter - 709   kcal/100g
  • Unsalted peasant butter - 661   kcal/100g
  • Peasant salted butter - 652   kcal/100g
  • Melted butter - 869   kcal/100g
  • Water - 0   kcal/100g
  • Cream 35% - 337   kcal/100g
  • Cream 40% - 362   kcal/100g
  • Baking powder - 79   kcal/100g
  • Egg yolks - 352   kcal/100g
  • Chocolate 70 % - 539   kcal/100g
  • Dark chocolate - 539   kcal/100g
  • Vanilla sugar - 379   kcal/100g
  • Egg whites - 44   kcal/100g

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