Cupcakes are small cupcakes or pastries, often decorated with cream or mastic. They turn out tasty by themselves, but nevertheless products with various fillers such as creamy, fruit, chocolate are very popular. The fillings for cupcakes can be very different, so everyone will choose for themselves the option to taste. In addition, thanks to this diversity, you can cook small cupcakes every day and not repeat for a long time, so these cakes can hardly get bored.
Cooking Features
Cupcake fillings can be made from fruits or berries, dairy products and chocolate. However, the recipes of these fillers have their own specifics.
- It is important that the cupcake filling has a creamy consistency, so that it is convenient to fill the hole in the cupcake using a cooking syringe, but at the same time so that it does not spread and soak the dough.
- It is better to start the cupcakes hot while they are malleable, but you need to get them out of the molds after they have cooled.
- It is advisable that the filling is cool, even if it melts upon contact with hot dough.
- After the cupcakes have cooled, they are nice to decorate with cream or mastic. This will mask the hole made to be placed inside the filling. Creams themselves can also serve as a filling, improving not only the appearance, but also the taste of mini-cakes.
- Holes for filling in the cupcakes can be made with the tip of a cooking bag.
Keep in mind that some types of fillings are not subject to long-term storage. For this reason, it is better to eat cupcakes on the first day after preparation.
Caramel and banana filling for cupcakes
Composition:
- banana - 0, 2 kg;
- cream - 150 ml;
- brown sugar - 150 g.
Method of preparation:
- Banana peel. Pulp mash with a fork or cut into pieces, put in a blender bowl and turn into a puree.
- Pour sugar into a dry frying pan, calcine it for 5 minutes.
- Pour in cream, mix with sugar. Hold on the fire for another 5 minutes, stirring.
- Caramelized sugar mixed with banana puree using a mixer or manually.
In the finished cupcakes, make a hole, fill a cake with caramel-banana cream through it, using a cooking syringe or a special bag for convenience.
Apple filling for cupcakes
Composition:
- sugar - 100 g;
- butter - 50 g;
- apples - 0, 4 kg.
Method of preparation:
- Wash and dry the apples with a towel. Peel off. Cut the seed boxes with a knife or special tool.
- Cut apple pulp into small cubes.
- Melt the butter in the pan. Put apples in it. Sprinkle them with sugar.
- Fry apples with sugar until they have a caramel color and aroma.
The filling can be used in the form in which it turned out, or it can be crushed using a blender to obtain a more delicate texture.
Chocolate and creamy filling for cupcakes
Composition:
- bitter chocolate - 80-90 g;
- fat cream - 150-180 ml.
Method of preparation:
- Chocolate break into pieces, put in a small saucepan and melt on low heat or in a water bath. Melt chocolate can be in the microwave - this is the easiest way.
- Cool the cream and whip with a mixer into a fluffy foam.
- Combine half the cream with chocolate, whip them together.
- Wait until the chocolate and creamy mass has cooled, add the remaining cream, whisk again.
Chocolate-cream, resembling a delicate mousse in consistency, can be used not only for filling cupcakes, but also for decorating them. In the latter case, you must wait until the cupcakes cool.
Curd Cream for Cupcakes
Composition:
- cottage cheese - 150 g;
- fatty cream - 50 ml;
- butter - 150 g;
- sugar - 150 g;
- vanilla essence - 2 drops.
Method of preparation:
- Curd the curd through a sieve to get the most delicate texture of the future cream.
- Remove the oil from the refrigerator and place it in a warm place so that it becomes soft.
- Crush sugar with a coffee grinder to a powder consistency.
- Whip cream and cottage cheese, separately and then together.
- Mix butter with icing sugar and whisk with a mixer. Beat up until the mass turns white.
- Combine the curd and butter pieces, whip them together.
- Add vanilla essence, whisk again.
- Put the cream in the fridge for 15-30 minutes, after which it can be used both for filling and for decorating cupcakes.
Remember that you can decorate cupcakes with cream only after they have completely cooled. Otherwise, the cream will spread, and the result is unlikely to meet your expectations.
Filling for Tiramisu Cupcakes
Composition:
- Mascarpone cream cheese - 0, 25 kg;
- fatty cream (for whipping) - 150 ml;
- sugar - 50 g.
Method of preparation:
- Grind sugar in a coffee grinder to a state of powder.
- Mix the icing sugar with cream cheese and whisk well.
- Continuing to beat, gradually introduce the cream. You need to add them literally a spoon. Beat in a cold container, it can even be overlaid with ice.
- Place the finished cream in a pastry bag and fill it with cupcakes.
In order for cakes to become even more similar to tiramisu, it will not hurt them to soak up coffee liqueur and decorate with chocolate pieces.
Stuffed from boiled condensed milk
Composition:
- boiled condensed milk - 0, 25 kg;
- butter - 100 g.
Method of preparation:
- Remove the oil from the refrigerator so that it softens.
- Open the condensed milk, put it in the bowl for beating.
- Add butter to condensed milk.
- Whisk everything together with a mixer until a thick creamy mass with a pleasant caramel shade is obtained.
If you do not have boiled condensed milk at hand, but only ordinary, you can cook it. To do this, put the jar in a saucepan, pour in plenty of water and boil 2-2, 5 hours after the water in the saucepan boils.
Filling of condensed milk (not boiled)
Composition:
- condensed milk - 0, 25 l;
- ground coffee - 5 g.
Method of preparation:
- Add coffee to the condensed milk, mix thoroughly.
- Spoon the dough back, pour the condensed milk with another spoon. This can be done before baking or after.
If you wish, you can not add coffee to condensed milk. The taste of the filling will change, but it will be no less pleasant.
Cherry filling for cupcakes
Composition:
- fresh or frozen cherries - 0, 2 kg;
- starch - 5 g;
- water - 40 ml;
- sugar - 60 g.
Method of preparation:
- Enumerate the cherry, wash it. Special device squeeze bones. If you use frozen berry, let it thaw. Do not pour the juice out of it.
- Sprinkle cherries with sugar. Wait half an hour for her to give juice. If you want to get a filling with a uniform consistency, before adding sugar, puree the berries with a blender.
- Dissolve starch with cool water.
- Place a bowl of cherries on low heat. Heat to boiling.
- Pour in starch. Stir and boil until the mass thickens.
- Cool the filling and use as directed.
If you use a cherry filling with whole berries, you can lay it when baking kaypkeyk using a spoon. When using a chopped berry filling, it is recommended to introduce it using a cooking bag into ready-made muffins.
Strawberry filling for cupcakes
Composition:
- strawberries - 0, 3 kg;
- sugar - 150 g;
- chicken egg - 5 pcs .;
- butter - 100 g;
- lemon - 1 pc.
Method of preparation:
- Wash the berries, while removing the sepals and tainted areas. Cut the large strawberries into several pieces. Fold the berry into the bowl of the blender.
- Wash the lemon, cut it in half and squeeze the juice out of it. If the juice got bones, remove them.
- Pour juice over strawberries and chop with a blender.
- Soften the butter. To do this, it is enough to remove it from the refrigerator in advance.
- Wash the eggs with soap, break into a bowl.
- Sprinkle sugar into the eggs and beat with a mixer.
- Add butter to the strawberry mass. Whisk it all together.
- Combine strawberries with eggs, put on low heat. Boil until the mass thickens to the desired consistency. Ideally, strawberry filling should resemble jam.
Cupcakes can be filled with fresh berries. To do this, they are enough to put in the raw dough, as if drowning in it. In the same way, muffins can be filled with banana slices or chocolate slices, steamed dried fruits.
Usually the cupcakes are made with sweet fillings, but some housewives make a snack version of this dish. In this case, they prepare unsweetened dough, and boiled quail eggs, olives, cherry tomatoes, slices of pickled cucumbers are put inside. When baking, cauliflower or broccoli can be put in the dough. Such cakes will appeal to even those who do not like sweets.
