Peaches and Cream Cupcakes

This week's project wasn't so much difficult as it was something I've been dying to make because it sounded delicious. I got the recipe from a blog that I've become obsessed with lately. I highly recommend each and every one of you reading this (what is that, like 5 people including my mom?) check out Cupcake Project. Be sure and read why she started the whole project. She has this recipe she created for peaches and cream cupcakes, and I was excited about it because it first requires having to make peaches and cream. I've never had peaches and cream before, but I love peaches so it just seemed like a win-win situation.

First I made the peaches and cream. The recipe is here. It is so ridiculously easy to make, it's not even funny. It's all done in the microwave! And it tasted wonderful! I would say it kind of tastes like my Grandma Braegger's rice pudding (which is very, very good) with peaches thrown in. I recommend this recipe.

It kind of looks like a cobbler here, but again it has more of a peaches mixed in with rice or bread pudding taste. So yummy when warm!

After the peaches and cream was done, then the batter was made and I mixed the two together. Here is the recipe for the actual cupcakes.

This is when Mike told me to stop actually stirring and to just pretend stir.

And this is when he told me to stop making the face in the previous picture and just stare at the batter.


The finished product is delicious. Because of the extra thickness from the crust in the peaches and cream, the cupcake has almost a muffin-like texture but still has the sweetness of a cupcake. As you can see from the picture, they don't puff up like normal cupcakes.

The only thing I would recommend doing differently from what she suggests in the recipe, is going easy on the chunky peach jam for the frosting. It tasted good and looked pretty in the bowl, but did a stupendous job of clogging up the piping tip, which made for some interesting frosting explosions.

Also you REALLY have to let these cool for awhile before frosting them. I thought I'd given them plenty of cool down, but I had just enough time to take the final pictures before the frosting started sliding off. As you can see from this picture of me enjoying the fruits of my labor, some of the frosting has already frosted the platter. Oh well!! Another learning experience! YUM!