Tim Burton Cupcakes Recipe

Ingredients

• of the fresh peaches. The original
• recipe was for a Peach Cake and it appeared in the All Cakes Considered
• cookbook, Melissa Gray’s effort that grew out of her NPR radio show, “All
• Things Considered”. Now Melissa uses
• canned peaches. Andrew use fresh. But
• given the season, go with the canned variety and feel good about it.
• The chocolate cupcakes came straight from Ina
• Garten’s “Barefoot at Home” cookbook (Clarkson Potter 2006). However Ina topped hers with Peanut Butter
• icing. Andrew went straight for a chocolate
• icing that nicely picked up the chocolate sprinkles he topped the cupcakes
• with.
• Recipe for James and The Giant Peach Cupcakes:
• Peach Cake Recipe by
• Melissa Gray
• 3 large eggs, beaten
• 1 3/4 cups sugar
• 1 cup vegetable oil
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 2 cups sliced peaches, preferably canned
• 1/2 cup chopped nuts (optional)
• 3 ounces cream cheese, at room temperature
• 4 tablespoons unsalted butter, at room
• temperature
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 2 cups confectioners’ sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
• cup light brown sugar, packed
• cup buttermilk, shaken, at room temperature
• 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
• 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
• the batter among the cupcake pans (1 rounded standard ice cream scoop per cup
• 6 ounces good semisweet chocolate (recommended:
• teaspoon pure vanilla extract
• cups sifted confectioners' sugar
• coffee powder in 2 teaspoons of the hottest tap water. On low speed, add the
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